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Special Snowflake Syndrome at Indiana University

<p>April 4th represents yet another example of the stupidity that has become an epidemic in American colleges&period; Earlier <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchingbagpost&period;com&sol;atlanta-students-frightened-by-pro-trump-messages&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>we reported Emory University students<&sol;strong><&sol;a> were &&num;8216&semi;frightened&&num;8217&semi; by &&num;8216&semi;Trump 2016&&num;8217&semi; messages in chalk on the sidewalk&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Indiana University erupted in panic last week when a man in white robes was spotted &ldquo&semi;prowling&rdquo&semi; the streets of Bloomington&period; The rosary beads at his hip were mistaken for a whip&comma; causing passersby to assume he was a KKK klansmember&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Concerned students took to Facebook and Twitter to spread the word with posts like&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>&ldquo&semi;IU students be careful&comma; there&rsquo&semi;s someone walking around in KKK gear with a whip&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&ldquo&semi;&commat;IUBloomington There&rsquo&semi;s a man walking around campus in a KKK hood carrying a whip and there&rsquo&semi;s NOTHING you can do to make students feel safe&quest;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Ethan Gill&comma; a resident assistant &lpar;RA&rpar; at Eigenmann dorm&comma; sent out a mass email warning students to travel in groups or stay inside&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;Because the person is protected under the first amendment rights&comma; IUPD cannot remove the person from campus unless an act of violence is committed&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ethan&&num;8217&semi;s follow-up email referred to the entire situation as a &ldquo&semi;hilarious miscommunication&rdquo&semi; &&num;8211&semi; and rightfully so&period; Turns out&comma; the man was a local priest from St&period; Paul&rsquo&semi;s walking the campus with his rosary and praying for students&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Social media posts quickly&nbsp&semi;evolved from concerned and frightened to sarcastic&period;&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;He was praying for our poor souls before Little 500&comma;&rdquo&semi; one student joked&period; &lpar;Little 500 is an annual cycling race at Indiana University that attracts students &lbrack;and police&rsqb; from all over the state&period; The race has evolved into an entire week of missed classes and DUIs&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While funny&comma; this incident reveals a culture&nbsp&semi;inclined to panic&period; These days&comma; it seems that every race&comma; gender&comma; culture&comma; and religion thinks it is under attack&period; This&nbsp&semi;situation is a prime example of how shockingly na&iuml&semi;ve and sheltered these students really are&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What are we teaching kids these days if they can&rsquo&semi;t tell the difference between a KKK klansmember and a priest&semi; a whip and a rosary&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s Note<&sol;strong>&colon; Like the students at Emory&comma; who were &&num;8216&semi;frightened&&num;8217&semi; by &&num;8216&semi;Trump 2016&&num;8217&semi; in chalk on the sidewalk&comma; these students are a victim of their own gullibility&period; This is a second example of students who are so sheltered&comma; poorly prepared&comma; naive and ignorant&comma; they just not ready for college&period; Its no wonder our kids come out of college brainwashed by&nbsp&semi;liberal B&period;S&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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