UMich Student Says Minorities Are Oppressed by Wood Paneling

When the University of Michigan decided to renovate the century-old Michigan Union building, they thought it would be nice to get some input from students on the direction the renovations should take. In theory, not a bad idea.

Unfortunately, the university forgot this is the outrage generation, and should have expected that a student would express concern that minorities are oppressed by FINISHED WOOD:

Anna Wibbelman, former president of Building a Better Michigan, an organization that voices student concerns about university development, stated at a student government meeting in late March that “minority students felt marginalized by quiet, imposing masculine paneling” found throughout the 100-year-old building, the meeting’s minutes state.

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Current president of Building a Better Michigan, Jazz Teste, stated that Wibbelman’s comment wasn’t necessarily about the wood paneling.

“I believe it was an off-hand comment about how many students felt marginalized by the quiet nature of the building when they entered,” she told The College Fix via email.

It’s one thing to say you find certain architecture or design “oppressive,” as in stuffy or uncomfortable. It’s a whole different thing to call the walls racist.

This woman literally thought that students of a certain skin color would be freaked out by an old building. “Triggered” by architecture. And not even architecture that looks like a Klan hood or a penis. Just wood paneling.

The radical leftism that has taken over college campuses is making promising young men and women into irrational loons yelling at the walls. People who would even entertain the thought that old architecture is an unfair burden on minorities are not being prepared for adulthood.

This should be a wakeup call for the university, but unfortunately, we all know that’s unlikely to happen. Instead they’ll keep feeding the beast, allowing social justice insanity to grow like a malignant tumor until it eats the institution alive, leaving nothing except you-know-what standing.