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Quote:Cornell students are required to get a flu vaccination before arriving on campus as part of the Cornell Student Behavioral Compact in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Or, to put it more accurately, white students are required to get a flu vaccination.

Most white students, anyway. If you’re Caucasian, you must obtain a medical or religious exemption in order to opt out.

Meanwhile, all “Black,” “Indigenous” and other students of color are allowed to cite their racial identity — or a medical or religious reason — as a cause for exemption from the Ivy League school’s requirement.

“Students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color (BIPOC) may have personal concerns about fulfilling the Compact requirements based on historical injustices and current events,” Cornell’s website reads.

According to another page on the website, some minority students “may have concerns about needing to agree to such requirements” because of “longstanding systemic racism and health inequities in this country.”

“For example, historically, the bodies of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) have been mistreated, and used by people in power, sometimes for profit or medical gain. It is understandable that the current Compact requirements may feel suspect or even exploitative to some BIPOC members of the Cornell community,” Cornell’s website read.

“Additionally, recent acts of violence against Black people by law enforcement may contribute to feelings of distrust or powerlessness.”

These “acts of violence” or course likely refer to police killings decried by the Black Lives Matter movement and others in 2020, the most noteworthy of which are George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake (all three cases came with extenuating circumstances).

“We know this history and validate the potential concerns it may raise. At the same time, we know that long-standing social inequalities and health disparities have resulted in COVID-19 disproportionately affecting BIPOC individuals,” the website reads.

There are numerous reasons why the language in these health guidelines is troubling, with the school’s use of the phrase “systemic racism” at the top of that list.

This idea posits that any and all racial disparities among minority groups and America’s white population must be due to a series of mostly invisible and unseen forces known as “systemic racism.”

Although historical racism indeed has had long-lasting effects, racial divides in economic success are due to many factors, including differences in culture and demographics.

By buying into this nonsense and using it to treat racial groups differently instead of equally, Cornell University is only helping to pull America further away from Martin Luther King Jr.’s colorblind ideal.

If we truly want to unite as a country and move forward, we need to start treating all people as equals, regardless of their race.

Cornell’s policies don’t do this. Instead, they treat minorities as victims and white people as oppressors.

No wonder race relations in this country continue to worsen.

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I thought it was illegal to discriminate against anyone based on race. This is an invitation to litigation and bad publicity as well.

Remove federal funding and tax their endowment at 33%.

Problem solved.

LOL not surprised.

Time for criminal civil rights prosecution. We won't get that from the Biden administration, for sure.

I'm sure the Jewish community would like to have a word about white people never being used for medical gain.

The poor souls at Cornell get a pass, at least in my book.

I have been to that campus many times - - as an undergrad at a competing Northeast school, to visit my brother who attended Cornell for his post-graduate degree, and during campus visits with my kids. There was not a single visit in my recollection in which the Ithaca town was not overcast, steel-gray and depressing. And there is likely a reason why Cornell, at least back when I was in school, had the highest incidence of student suicides - - to the point that the school had to install crisis hotlines on the bridges spanning their campus gorges.

In that relentlessly oppressive setting, it is not at all surprising that the locals come up with some truly dysfunctional ideas.

Far above Cayuga's waters.
There's a nasty smell,
Some say it's Cayuga's waters,
Some say it's Cornell.

Guess I’m going to spend the next four years identifying as a Native American. The advantages of being white are simply too much for me to handle.

Problem solved. Just identify as BIPOC.

So here are the two sides of the progressive mouth...

1 - Current systematic racism is making minorities more vulnerable to the effects of this pandemic
2 - Because of racism in the past (tuskegee) we are going to allow minorties to opt out of what we call a life saving vaccine.

Talk about having your SJW cake and eating it too...

So the way to deal with systemic racism is to be systemically racist.

That's just freakin' brilliant.