Ripon College Bans Poster for 9/11 Memorial

"According to @YAF, administrators claimed that one of their objections is 'because radical Islamist terrorism 'represents a small percentage of the terrorist attacks that happened to this country’’” via @dcexaminer https://t.co/qF0lrw0tja

— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) August 30, 2018

Ripon College is getting national attention, and not in a good way.

From Spencer Brown, Young America's Foundation:

Citing bias reports filed during last year’s 9/11: Never Forget Project, administrators at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, ruled that YAF’s 9/11: Never Forget Project posters are creating an “environment” where “students from a Muslim background would feel singled out and/or harassed.” As a result, Ripon administrators will not allow the Ripon Young Americans for Freedom to hang the flyers as part of their work to remember the victims of September 11 or other victims of radical Islamist terrorism.

When leaders from Ripon YAF pressed administrators in a meeting to explain what was objectionable about the posters which merely depict history, the school’s “Bias Protocol Board” failed to provide anything more than the usual bizarre leftist excuses that rely on feelings, rather than facts, to back up their censorship.

According to administrators, the objections were “raised to the administration and the bias incident team about the environment that that [the poster] creates… That because of the focus, in this case relentlessly on one religious organization, one religious group, one religious identity—in associating that one religious identity with terrorist attacks which go back far before 9/11 and after 9/11— creates for some students here an environment which they feel like they are not able to learn.”

Administrators reminded the students that Ripon college is a private institution and therefore Ripon can decide what it feels is appropriate for display on campus and what is not.

Another Wisconsin institution of higher learning shames itself.

Embarrassing.