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May 2nd
9 years ago
General
This is just a follow-up to my last journal.
Yes, there were protests today - but they were largely peaceful, led by anti-discrimination activists. There were small clumps of Trump supporters here and there, but that was okay. The overwhelming majority of the people who turned out were people who were - are - fed up with how SIU's administration has handled the mounting racial tensions on campus, among other things. The local newspaper reported on the protests.
All in all, things turned out much better than I was afraid they would. I didn't need to pack my mace.
Yes, there were protests today - but they were largely peaceful, led by anti-discrimination activists. There were small clumps of Trump supporters here and there, but that was okay. The overwhelming majority of the people who turned out were people who were - are - fed up with how SIU's administration has handled the mounting racial tensions on campus, among other things. The local newspaper reported on the protests.
All in all, things turned out much better than I was afraid they would. I didn't need to pack my mace.
I'm glad everything worked out well, but I'm so sorry that it became a problem to begin with.
I think that the simplest reason that people are assholes is the belief that superficial and immutable differences make some groups somehow better than others.