The University of Minnesota recently held an event dedicated
to discussing how to make the “holiday season” on campus more inclusive. Those
attending the “Dean’s Dialogues” meeting, which was hosted by the College of
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences, were provided a memo- titled “Religious
Diversity and Holidays”- listing more than a dozen items that should not be
used in holiday-themed displays on campus due to their “religious iconography.”*
The
items, which were described as “not appropriate,” include nativity scenes, the Star
of Bethlehem, dreidels, angels, Christmas trees, doves, depictions of Santa
Claus, bells, bows, and wrapped gifts. Think about this for a moment: we have
reached a point in the West where our elite educators deem nativity scenes, the
Star of Bethlehem, angels, and Christmas trees inappropriate for display during the Christmas season.
Obviously, then, they deem them
inappropriate at all times. Yet some universities are providing prayer time,
space (and rugs?) for Muslim students. That is not diversity, it is perversity.
The suggested exclusion of Santa
Claus, bells, bows, doves, and wrapped gifts from holiday displays is simply
mind-boggling. Aren’t doves symbols of peace? And what is wrong with wrapped
gifts? Should we not wrap birthday presents, either? Wedding gifts?
Incredibly, the directive also
recommended that decorations and displays not be themed around the colors red
and green or blue and white. Red and green have been co-opted by Christians,
apparently. (Though I seem to remember that communists have an affinity for
red, and green is critical to the Muslim world and was the color of the flag of
the last of the four Arab caliphates). And blue and white are just too…Jewish…and
smack of unbridled Zionism.
So, no Santa, bells, bows, or gifts
this holiday season? No colors, either? Apparently, the Deans want the campus
to sport the same festive appearance that characterized East Germany and the
gulags of the Soviet Union.
This does make some sense, though. The
prevailing political ideology on college campuses is that of Marx and Lenin.
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*Definition: the visual images, symbols, or modes of representation
collectively associated with a person,
cult, or movement. (Like depictions of Che Guevara, Antifa or Black Lives
Matter? They’ve all been banned from campuses, too, I’m sure).
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