Fordham Tramples Student Rights

For John, BLUF:  This could be filed under universities unhinged, except that that would be lost in the noise for those paying attention.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Fordham Demands Apology For Student’s Tiananmen Protest

Here is the sub-headline:

Austin Tong is refusing to back down after posting a photograph in which he criticized China's Tiananmen Square massacre

From The Washington Free Beacon, by Reporters Chrissy Clark and Stephen Gutowski, 23 JULY 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

A New York City college has barred a Chinese immigrant from campus and demanded he apologize for posing with a legally owned rifle in a social media post that criticized China for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Fordham University administrators are demanding that rising senior Austin Tong submit an apology letter to the school by July 23 after he posted to Instagram a photo that shows him holding a firearm in honor of the Tiananmen Square protests, according to a disciplinary letter from the school. Tong risks suspension or expulsion if he refuses to apologize.

The school is arguing that the photograph ran afoul of its commitment to combat bias and hate crimes.  D. Keith Eldredge, Fordham's dean of students, said Tong will not be welcome on campus regardless of whether he attends the university-sanctioned "implicit bias" training demanded of him under the disciplinary letter.

So what the Chinese Government did in Tiananmen Square is all OK?  The Chinese Government attacks on peaceful protestors is just fine with Fordham University.  Is Fordham united with the NBA in silently approving of Chinese abuse of power, such as with their Uighur minority?.

Which raises a small question in the back of my mind.  Why are protestors in the United States not protesting the various civil rights violations of the Chinese?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff