The future Baron is a graduate student at Tech, and received this email a couple of days ago:
From: <Virginia.Tech.news@vt.edu>
Date: Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Subject: Fostering a welcoming environment during holiday season
To: Multiple recipients <LISTSERV@listserv.vt.edu>
To the Virginia Tech Community:
As we approach the season in which many individuals celebrate religious holidays, we would like to remind you of the breadth of diversity of members of our Virginia Tech community and the importance of fostering a welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors.
While some people enjoy holiday decorations, music, and other expressions of holiday sentiment, there are many others for whom such activities create a sense of exclusion. We would like to encourage an awareness and sensitivity to the needs of all members of our diverse populations.
In planning activities related to holidays, it is considerate to develop those that create a sense of welcome for everyone. We invite you to reflect on the great variety of beliefs represented at Virginia Tech, now and throughout the year, and consider ways to help all members of our community feel honored and valued.
Sincerely,
Kevin G. McDonald
Vice President for Equity and Inclusion
Mark G. McNamee
Senior Vice President and Provost
Edward F. D. Spencer
Vice President for Student Affairs
Sherwood G. Wilson
Vice President for Administrative Services
The future Baron was so moved by this message that he composed his own variant. Perhaps this is the email that will be sent out to the Class of 2018:
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To the Virginia Tech Community (praise be upon it),
As we approach the season of Ramadan, we would like to remind you of the breadth of diversity of members of our Virginia Tech community and the importance of fostering a welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors, as long as they have properly converted to Islam.
While some people enjoy beheading infidels, stoning homosexuals, and regarding women as chattel, there are many others for whom such activities create a sense of exclusion. We would like to encourage an awareness and sensitivity to the needs of all members of our diverse populations.
In planning activities related to Ramadan, it is considerate to develop those that create a sense of welcome for everyone, as long as they believe in Allah. We invite you to reflect on the great variety of infidels represented at Virginia Tech, now and throughout the year, and consider ways to help all members of our community feel subjugated and oppressed.
Sincerely,
Kevin al-McDonald
Vice President of Dhimmi Affairs
Mark bin McNamee
Senior Jizyah Collector
We’re fortunate that the Virginia Tech campus will never experience violent jihad. It isn’t possible there, because firearms aren’t allowed on campus.
Solves that problem. Yup.
8 comments:
Do you know that Virginia Tech along with this Kevin McDonald has ALL the following working alongside him? I got this from McDonald's site: I thought his position was a joke but the 'diversity police' are at battalion strength at Virginia Tech!
Staff
* Kelly Oaks, Director for Equity Initiatives
(540) 231-7500
* Karisa Moore, Equity Manager
(540) 231-7500
* Maggie Sloane, Director for Compliance and Conflict Resolution
(540) 231-7500
* Dale B. Robinson, Conflict Resolution Program Manager
(540) 231-1824
* Robin Atkins, Compliance and ng Specialist
(540) 231-0975
* Ray Plaza, Director of Diversity Initiatives
(540) 231-7289
* Silvia Ramos-Cotton, Manager of Diversity Initiatives
(540) 231-8970
* Jane Ann Williams, Director of Multicultural Community Engagement & Outreach
(540) 231-7500
Merry Nihilism Day!
We invite you to feeling guilty. We invite you to the cold and empty void named diversity. We welcome you to the path to dhimmitude.
2000: Merry Christmas!
2008: Happy Holidays!
2010: Merry Multicultural Winter celebrations!
2012: Merry Diversity New Year Celebrations!
2015: Happy Neutral Winter Solstice party!
...
2020: May you have a Happy Jihad!
2022: Kill the idolaters wherever you find them.
2023: Now it's peace in the land of Allah.
presumably National Socialists are free to celebrate Hitler's birthday provided they invite Jews
Yeah, yeah, we have "Diversity is Strength" posters all over the place where I work, too. ***BURP!*** ...uh, excuse me. Which is odd, because I always thought that "diversity" was the Tower of Babel, Balkanization, race riots, ethnic cleansing, and chaos a la Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Lebanon, etc......but, hey, what do I know?
Say?..... wasn't Virginia Tech so "diverse" that they let that crazy psycho (whatizname?) kill all those people without lifting a finger to stop him? Yeah, Virginia Tech is about as diverse as Mumbai!
How much do you pay in tuition at this "diverse" place? And what fraction of that tuition fee goes to fund this entire staff of diversity mongers??
One of the last ... :
Forget tuition, this is a State school. The taxpayers of VA (like me) are paying the commissars' salaries.
The home countries and/or cultures of these "diverse" citzens have nothing like this posted in their places of higher learning, no faculty bending over backwards to make the Christians among them welcome, no vast departments of "equality" officers.
So the upshot is that they have a billion or so people pursuing exclusive "Chineseness", "East Indianness" and "Muslimhood", while the vastly outnumbered Europeans Christians are supposed to bury their culture and beliefs under the substrate of the ones in no danger of dying out.
This isn't making people feel welcome. This is making them feel like colonists and conquerors who trump the abject natives.
The worst part of this is that the Left is way ahead of any demands by minorities, in fact teaching them to make demands. Sure there are some cranks among the minorities but their every whim is amplifed by the anti-Christian and anti-white Left.
I remember a poll last year showing that over 90% of minorities didn't mind being wished "Merry Christmas" in the USA.
It's the atheist Left who is offended by it and teaching minorities to be less gracious instead of more so, to match American live and let live attitudes.
James--
While it is true that we taxpayers in VA are levied for hefty sums for these cesspits of diversity -- loaded down as they are with bureaucratic deadwood -- the students carry a *huge* tuition load in addition.
An in-state undergraduate student at UVa, VA Tech, or William and Mary pays 12 to 15 thousand dollars a year for the privilege of becoming educated at one of their fine facilities.
The average middle class student and/or his family will assume a massive debt load that will take a decade or longer to pay off. And for what??
There is a growing movement to get more kids out of the college processing mill and into training and education for which they are better suited.
While these idjits count beans, no one is doing anything at all, nothing, zip, nada, about the epidemic of student alcoholism.
Schools ought to be running AA meetings every night but they don't because...because they think if they ignore the situation and mouth platitudes when another student dies of alcohol poisoning or suicide, then no one will notice anything amiss. And what does it say to kids when the president of the college regularly appears at public functions obviously drunk?
College is not just about SAT scores, it's also about emotional maturity -- something sadly lacking in these institutions of "higher learning". The purportedly mature faculty behave like dictators in their tenure-protected fiefdoms. Free to abysmally neglect their students because of this rigged system, many of them do just that.
While the administrative bureaucrats are busy enforcing the intensely stupid p.c. minutiae, the professors use teaching "assistants" for the heavy lifting --i.e., teaching classes while The Big Dogs do "research".
Students have to play the game; obtaining the minimum requirements for entry into the work world is now akin to gaining entrance into the medieval guilds.
The ones I feel sorry are the kids who will come out into that work world in the next two years (my son among them) and find they have entered an economic ground zero. It won't be pretty...
Fortunately, our son majored in the sciences so he won't have as hard a time. But I pity anyone with a degree in, say, English Lit. And I think the colleges ought to be held responsible for allowing any student to spend years (and a small fortune) preparing for a field in which they will never find work.
As the whole economic infrastructure melts down, one of the casualties will be the college scam. The breadth and depth of the corruption at universities is every bit as bad as any other institution in this country...in some ways, its worse.
Besides, you can tell colleges are failing as cultural institutions because the men are leaving them. Women now outnumber men on many campuses. Whenever men desert a particular endeavor, that's a prodromal sign of collapse. Feminist Studies Departments are going to learn what happens when you get what you want.
IMHO
/rant
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