America's universities are sewers of leftism - today's edition.
This one combine's two of the Left's favorite notions: that Israel is bad, and that highly sensitive elite students must be sheltered from the possibility of being offended:
Harvard University’s dining service has removed labels from soda machines in its facilities over concerns that merely reading them could damage the fragile psyches of university students.
The root of the problem, like so many other campus food fights, is Israel. Until last spring, Harvard Undergraduate Dining Services (HUDS) purchased water machines from a firm owned by SodaStream, an Israel-based firm that operates a plant in the West Bank.
According to The Harvard Crimson, those purchases have stopped after activists on campus complained that the machines were offensive to students of Palestinian origin. Nor did HUDS stop there, as they even stripped SodaStream labels from machines they already owned in order to minimize any potential psychic harm to students who oppose the company.
And this situation gives them a chance to further entrench one of their favorite silly-ass self-coined terms:
“These machines can be seen as a microaggression to Palestinian students and their families and like the University doesn’t care about Palestinian human rights,” sophomore Rachel J. Sandalow-Ash, a member of the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, told the Crimson. A “microaggression,” according to modern campus activists, is some minor everyday statement or action that entrenches discrimination or degrades a person based on their group identity.
Top administration is apparently not so keen on HUDS making this move unilaterally, but we'll see whether the inevitable heat from the goose-stepping ninnies has any effect on that.
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