Even Stone Images Of Guns Too Triggering For Yale Students

By Tom Knighton

The news has covered dozens of students through the years that have run afoul of inane and draconian “zero tolerance” rules regarding the depiction of firearms. Clothing showing things as varied as American soldiers to Star Wars’ stormtroopers have been cause for school freakouts (and really, it’s not like the stormtroopers ever shot anyone). Yet, these were always younger students, all high school age or younger.

However, at Yale University, it seems that even a stone depiction of an antique firearm was just too much for the special snowflakes to handle according to George Will writing at the Washington Post.

Summer brings no respite for academics committed to campus purifications, particularly at the institution that is the leader in the silliness sweepstakes, Yale. Its Committee on Art in Public Spaces has discovered that a stone carving that has adorned an entrance to Sterling Memorial Library since it opened 86 years ago has become “not appropriate.”

The carving, according to Yale Alumni Magazine, depicts “a hostile encounter: a Puritan pointing a musket at a Native American.” Actually, the Native American and the Puritan are looking not hostilely at each other but into the distance. Still, one can’t be too …Read the Rest

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