It's Hump Day and the Daily Blessings always takes notice and provides inspiration on Wednesdays. But today...we offer INDIGNATION! In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like.
Here's an excerpt from a brilliant piece of journalism about what's going on at American universities:
Last year, at the University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, an event called Hump Day, which would have allowed people to pet a camel, was abruptly canceled. Students had created a Facebook group where they protested the
event for animal cruelty, for being a waste of money, and for being insensitive to people from the Middle East. The inspiration for the camel had almost certainly come from a popular TV commercial in which a camel saunters around an office on a Wednesday, celebrating “hump day”; it was devoid of any reference to Middle Eastern peoples. Nevertheless, the group organizing the event announced on its Facebook page that the event would be canceled because the “program [was] dividing people and would
make for an uncomfortable and possibly unsafe environment.”
Yes - our love of hump day is under attack. But on a more serious note, raising the next generation in a climate of fear and extraordinary caution goes against
