TROUBLE WITH BRANDEIS: I was just about to declare a moratorium on Brandeis-related posts, knowing that most of my readers didn’t go there and don't necessarily care about the day-to-day goings-on at my alma mater. But a couple of events this week bear commenting on, as it appears a virtual pro-PC vs. anti-PC civil war is about to break out on campus, if it hasn't already.
Sometime this week, some idiot placed a flier on campus which stated the following:
There are 6.5 million Muslim-Americans in the United States comprised of African-Americans, and last night they all did your mom. Twice. Did you know that? Creating awareness: one thought at a time.
Much like the Passner quote, the flier is factually and grammatically incorrect, on top of being viciously racist, as well as not the slightest bit funny. And it's hard to imagine anything more noxious than stereotyping blacks as rapists. The flier is supposed to be a parody of the Senate's "One thought at a time" campaign, but not a particularly funny or effective one.
I don't know what this dumbass was thinking, but he's clearly not helping his own cause by pursuing this course of action, because all he's likely to do is help prove the point of the PC zealots that there's an "institutionally racist atmosphere on campus," make it look as though those opposed to the strong-arming of the "tolerance" advocates are in fact vicious racists, and subsequently inch Brandeis closer and closer to Speech Code-land. Follow Josh for more on this.
The group claiming responsibility for the flier is called, for what it's worth, "the Mad Tea Party." No idea what that is, but they do share a name with a North Carolina-based folk-pop duo.