Kirata
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The full list of demands is available at the link below. Among them is the following...
5. President Martin must issue a statement to the Amherst College community at large that states we do not tolerate the actions of student(s) who posted the ''All Lives Matter'' posters, and the ''Free Speech'' posters that stated that ''in memoriam of the true victim of the Missouri Protests: Free Speech.'' Also let the student body know that it was racially insensitive to the students of color on our college campus and beyond who are victim to racial harassment and death threats; alert them that Student Affairs may require them to go through the Disciplinary Process if a formal complaint is filed, and that they will be required to attend extensive training for racial and cultural competency.
This is the intolerable poster:
To deal with future outbreaks of such speech-offenses on campus the students are demanding the creation of a "disciplinary process" that would include compulsory re-education in "racial and cultural competency."
If these goals are not initiated within the next 24 to 48 hours, and completed by November 18th, we will organize and respond in a radical manner, through civil disobedience. If there is a continued failure to meet our demands, it will result in an escalation of our response.
Source: Amherst Uprising
The President of Amherst published a response (here) expressing his inability to respond to all of the demands, but also saying, "Those who have immediately accused students in Frost of threatening freedom of speech or of making speech 'the victim' are making hasty judgments."
In other news, the sky is no longer blue.
K.
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