Saturday, May 09, 2015

We are doomed!!---Hey, the guy with the big foam head doesn't look like me

Hey, the guy with the big foam head doesn't look like me - Personal Liberty
"It’s 2015, the age of diversity, and he’s far too white, too male, too blue-eyed and too straight.
Rutgers mascotHell, only a tiny toothbrush mustache or perhaps a white hood could make him more indicative of the ongoing and ironfisted oppression of all manner of diverse sentient beings.
That, or something like that, is why students at Rutgers University say it’s time to make some changes to their cartoon-headed Scarlet Knight mascot of 60 years.
According to Rutgers’ The Daily Targum, the school’s student assembly has passed a bill that would fix the Scarlet Knight’s glaring diversity problem “by adding multiple Scarlet Knights that could be black, Latino, Asian, female or third gender in addition to the existing Caucasian Scarlet Knight.”
...“What we were thinking — the way the bill’s laid out — it’s not defined that we need an Asian knight, a black knight, a Latino knight,” the first-year student told The Daily Targum.
“That we would really leave it up to the different student organizations … and basically the student body as a whole to determine how many knights they’d like and what these knights would represent.”
He also told the paper,
“What we were really hoping is that this would be a discussion with the entire student body … So we would have a working committee of the different multicultural (organizations), possibly the Queer Caucus — basically students who represent a unique voice, and have them all working together at the same table to make sure red flags that arise with any of those groups — that mascot would immediately be tabled.”
That should go well."

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