Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Univ. of Michigan cancels ‘American Sniper’ screening: ‘Made students feel unsafe’

Univ. of Michigan cancels ‘American Sniper’ screening: ‘Made students feel unsafe’: "University: ‘While our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful, and made students feel unsafe and unwelcome at our program’
A scheduled movie screening of “American Sniper” at the University of Michigan was abruptly cancelled Tuesday after nearly 300 students and others complained the film perpetuates “negative and misleading stereotypes” against Muslims.
“The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer,” according to an online letter circulated among the campus community via Google Docs that garnered the signatures.

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