The following comes from a December 23 College Fix article by Nathan Rubbelke:
A coalition of students at the University of San Diego have demanded that administrators denounce Saint Junípero Serra as a mass murderer with a “colonialist legacy.” They also want the Catholic saint’s name stripped from a campus building at the private, Catholic university.
The demand, one of nearly two dozen made by a coalition of black and LGBTQ students calling themselves “Concerned Students at USD,” also demanded that administrators allow “a coalition of native students, staff and faculty” to rename USD’s Serra Hall.
Serra is not the only figure celebrated on campus that Concerned Students at USD believes is a symbol of racism. It also wants USD to ditch its mascot, Diego Torero.
The mascot, which was adopted by USD in 2006, “is a racist and derogatory caricature of Spanish men” the demand states. It calls on the university to replace Diego Torero with a “non-human” mascot.
Students do not have the right to DEMAND anything.
If they do not like it – go to another school.
Will someone please show them the door ?
When a story teller is filled with righteous anger, his false narrative overpowers him. Those with fragile psychological development are more susceptible to the need for a cause that vaults them to prominence and authority, even when it is false. Clear studies of Saint Serra show his care for the native people against the colonialism of the secular forces. Are there no properly educated faculty to advise these ill informed and psychologically weak adolescents regarding their behaviors and falsehoods?
Father .. There are plenty of faculty who can talk about St. Sierra but the tiny handful of students in the “coalition” won’t listen.
Well said, Fr. Richard! To answer your question at the end of your posting, I presume such institutions are alive and well…well-run Catholic intuitions who teach the truth about Blessed Junípero Serra!
What an embarrassment for this school, but an understandable result of longstanding and deep-seated PC indoctrination. Interesting how sexual perversion distorts reality on matters unrelated to sex. These ideologues should be made to pass a rigorous history test with a grade of 95 % or higher, or else be sent packing.
Thank goodness they have not added ‘Good Education’ to their list of demands, or we would all be disappointed.
However – they can always know and regurgitate the ‘truthiness’ of the Gaystapo, or else:
NYC will fine employers up to $250,000 for referring to ‘transsexuals’ by their natural gender
(LifeSiteNews) – The New York City Commission on Human Rights has issued rules that fine employers for referring to transsexuals by their real gender.
The new “guidance” (“NYC Pronoun Ban”), which has power to levy hefty fines against “violators” who “discriminate,” is an extension of the New York City Human Rights Law, based on the city’s laws against gender discrimination.
Failing to use an individual’s preferred name or pronoun,…
I am a ‘baby boomer’ and I thought we were spoiled brats!!!
But a large majority of this currentl generation makes us like like ‘pikers’ in comparison.
Very self centered and entitled, or so they think!!
Excellent comments, everyone. I also posted my thoughts on the school newspaper’s website. You can do it too, if you like.
How tragic and horrible that this is what is happening at a Catholic university. By being pc, all hell is breaking lose on traditional Catholicism and western civilization. Removing Confederate statues, and changing the names of schools and mascots are all part of this. Christ is seen as homeless and Mary as an unwed mother. The vacuum caused by this will be filled with revolutionary and Islamic names, mark my word.
Saint Junipero Serra, pray for your Church. Instead of trying to convert the world, it seems the world is converting Her. We desperately need your intercession as well as the powerful intercession of Our Lady in order to combat the diabolical influence that has pervaded the Catholic Church.
Merry Christmas, everyone. Not all is lost. On Christmas Eve we attended a midnight candlelit solemn Mass (three priests) at St. Victor in West Hollywood offered by FSSP LA. Like being halfway to Heaven. That is the way forward and the large church was full.
Demand? The Left demand and want everything their way or no way, you are students and you can demand nothing!!!
The inmates are definitely taking over the asylum!
Enjoy freedom of speech while you can. I don’t condone this protest and admire Saint Serra.
U.C. San Diego has an “Islamophobia” class, too. The professor “called anti-Muslim rhetoric unacceptable, and she said she would support working with the school on responding to it in ways that do not hurt other groups of people.”
A University of San Diego professor’s protest against discrimination toward Muslims resulted in a campus controversy when she and students wore yellow stars similar to those Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany and Europe before the Holocaust.
“Representatives of various Jewish groups have called the protest an inappropriate use of a hurtful image that should not be misappropriated.”
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Correction: The UCSD class is “Islamic Faith and Practice.” The professor’s academic exercise was on “Islamophobia.”
I am afraid that so-called students who are under the control of outside revolutionary forces will probably overthrow the university. These are the same people to whom the Vatican wishes we extend good wishes. God help us.
Catholic parents, are you blowing your hard-earned money on this PC garbage? Vets, are you wasting your educational benefits on this failed “university?”
Better take a very hard look at what they are selling. Don’t waste your time and money on a school driven by a bunch of black and sexually perverted idiots. Be smarter than that.
Now a small group of students want to run the asylum – otherwise known as the University of San Diego. If the administration gives in to any of their demands then the institution should be stripped of the name Catholic. These misguided, uninformed, students should be reminded in no uncertain terms that they have enrolled in a Catholic university, and if they do not like things the way they are, then they are most welcome to withdraw and enroll at either the University of California at San Diego, or at San Diego State University, but that they will not dictate policy to the University of San Diego. It is about time that the administration of the University of San Diego develop some backbone and stand up to this small minority of…
To say that these protesters “have enrolled in a Catholic university” is frankly ridiculous. Start by using the search engine for this site to see literally dozens of articles on USD pertaining to Planned Parenthood jobs, drag shows, and every permutation of apostasy imaginable. People need to wake up – this school is corrupt and students there live and breath in an environment which is completely destructive to the faith in the first place – don’t be surprised then when they totally lose it.
As for as liberals, gays, feminists, atheists, liberal Jews, animal rights activists, actors, musicians, all of whom LOVE Islam for some reason don’t realize they would be the first to have their throats cut under Sharia Law!! Just like Sweden, Denmark, Holland, France, England and Germany have let in the Trojan Horse into their countries where there are NO GO ZONES, will wake up one day and hear the call to prayer from the minarets and the church bells silent!! It is as if the Europeans are comatose, but that is what happens when you discard Christianity and have nothing to live for.
Listen to the warnings from people such as: Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer, Noni Darwish, Brigette Gabriel, Pamela Geller, Walid Shobet all of whom have been screeming from the top of their lungs about the Islamic invasion and the creeping Sharia coming to us, yet they are all called Islamophobes, bigots and haters. Germany and Europe CANNOT reproduce enough to stop the flow Muslims in Europe. Muslims have 8.2 children per household ethnic Europeans 1.2 these are FACTS!!
Commenters above say that these students do not represent USD, and that this is an opportunity for USD to reclaim its Catholic identity. They miss the dynamic – these protesters are completely in the vein of the student mentality that the USD produces and protects. USD doesn’t recognize a loss of Catholic identity, so will have no objective to reclaim it. USD subscribes to a deformed notion of the faith which ascribes to distorted charity, infused with principles of Marxism, feminism, and homosexualism, the same as presented at a majority of Catholic colleges. USD will probably come around to agreeing with the protests.
Universities are supposed to, and are mandated to teach the truth. Why attend a school if all you will learn is hogwash. It is a scandal that this hubris is being taught at a ‘Catholic’ institution. If knowledge is power, than the liberal students who support this garbage, are total weaklings.
Same thinking as ISIS. Destroy anything with which one disagrees.
Why are students like these, so easily swayed to lies, and making idiots of themselves with their idiot demands even in an institution of higher education? I am sure there are many more intelligent and better students that do have common sense, good values, and good character that if they could afford to do so, would replace these students for the benefit of our future society.