Special Little Snowflakes will never be the same.
Via The College Fix:
So-called “chalkings” appeared all over American campuses this week, and on Wednesday the University of Michigan was no exception.
An area known as the “Diag” played host to messages stating “Stop Islam,” “Build the Wall,” “Stop the Rape of Europe,” and the more politically generic “Trump 2016.”
Some Muslim students wanted to the university to take action and facilitate the removal of the graffiti; however, the school said “it allows messages to be written in chalk on campus plazas.”
As a result, students took matters into their own hands and washed away the “bigoted” comments, but allowed the “Trump 2016” to remain — “because [they] didn’t want to infringe on political speech.”
The Detroit Free Press reports:
“We specifically made it a point to not remove the chalk that was simply pro-Trump (even though we do not agree with his hateful ideas),” said university student Rami Ebrahim.
Rick Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the University of Michigan, said in a statement on Wednesday: “Someone used chalk to write a #stopislam message on the main square in the heart of our campus known as the Diag. Attacks directed toward any member or group within the University of Michigan community, based on a belief or characteristic, are inconsistent with our values of respect, civility and equality.”
“We were just upset that the university didn’t adequately address the situation, to the point where they wouldn’t send anybody to clean it up because it was after hours,” Ebrahim said. “It’s a systemic problem that the University hasn’t paid much attention to … addressing this type of climate created on campus.”
Banen Al-Sheemary, a student, said: “This is reflective of the deep racism embedded in our university. This doesn’t only impact Muslims but all students of color. … the administration isn’t proactive in combating these hostile attitudes. When silent, it perpetuates and allows this type of behavior to continue because it sets a precedent that it is all right to target students because the administration will not take any concrete steps.”
Although some UM students appear to have handled their chalking incident without a paroxysm of snowflakery, they still don’t seem to grasp that even the messages which they erased qualify as political speech.