The Weekly Roundup: Let the Trumper-tantrums begin
Monday 14 November
American flag lowered, burned in response to election
A low-hanging flag, like low-hanging fruit, presents a tempting target to the indolent.
Students demand ‘sanctuary campuses’ to protect them from Trump
Gee, who coulda predicted that?
Barnard students mourn Hillary loss with ‘feminist coloring pages’
What makes the coloring pages feminist? Do they get huffy when people hold doors for them?
CRs call out college prez for email bashing Trump, conservatives
He should read their letter. It might help him understand what might impel someone to vote for Trump.
UVA profs, students triggered by Thomas Jefferson quotes
They should adopt a new founder.
Pomona College sends students to protest Trump
And did it work?
Towson profs, students ‘mobilize against Trump’ with walkout
Mobilize, eh? Just how many artillery units and tanks are you deploying against the insufferable bigot?
Tuesday 15 November
Duke offers sex toy ‘demonstrations’ at ‘after-hours location’
Are the planning to put up a billboard on the Interstate?
National walkout seeks ‘sanctuary’ for illegal immigrant students
Wednesday 16 November
White students create ‘deconstructing whiteness’ club at Pomona
It’s all about deconstructing the various wavelengths of color that together form white and NOT social justice hogwash.
UMass students hold ‘sh*t-in’ for gender-neutral bathrooms
What a shitty protest...
GW progressives march on White House, issue list of demands
Surprisingly, making the name of the “White” House more inclusive was not one of them.
Admins seek to stymie media inquiries from ‘right-wing types’
They accuse us of twisting their words. We maintain that their words were already twisted when we got them.
Thursday 17 November
Profs circulate petition against possible Trump EPA pick
Oh, so we’re keeping that agency, are we?
Anti-Trump UMich protesters use ‘privileged folx’ as shield
We, too, thought it was cool to use “x” for plurals...when we were creating Runescape screen names in middle school.
AAUP: Trump ‘greatest threat to academic freedom’ since McCarthy
That’s only if one excludes the founding of the AAUP from consideration, though.
Twitter threats land Rutgers prof in loony bin
They just couldn’t figure out why someone so openly hostile to free speech would ever try to hide behind it.
Then they remembered that he’s a liberal.
Prof calls Trump presidency ‘the definition of rape’
Now show me on the doll where Mr. Trump touched you...
UMich students accuse prez of anti-Trump ‘fear mongering’
...and manage to do so far more articulately that their president did while mongering his fear.
Friday 18 November
Pitt students offered extra credit to attend anti-Trump march
Nothing to see here, folks. Just entirely independent, self-supporting individuals who most certainly needed no incentive to act like total buffoons.
OU student health group promotes ‘kink’ with sex toy demonstrations
Sure, it’s the great healthcare challenge of the generation: How to avoid injuries related to improper sex toy use.
‘Sanctuary campus’ leaders admit that colleges can’t ban ICE
Not that that was ever really the point, though.
See, once the objective is accomplished, who’s gonna keep marching? And if nobody is marching, how do you remind the others to keep writing checks?
Georgetown prof recruits students to protest ‘climate denier’
“I don’t usually use this email list for political purposes.” Yeah, that was probably a good rule, professor.
Sunday 20 November
Hamilton forsakes flag following furor over flame-up
Well, you can’t please everyone, so you might as well piss ‘em all off.