The University of Wisconsin at Green Bay will be offering a new course on environmentalism called “Green Lives Matter.”
The course is aimed at motivating students to support the “environmental justice movement” by “merging the civil rights and environmental concerns.” Fulfilling a general education requirement, first-year students will learn about things such as “migrant farm worker pesticide exposure” and “urban environmental harms.”
From Fox News:
Furlong said the university’s diversity director and course professor, Elizabeth Wheat, chose the title earlier this year, as the Black Lives Matter movement built strength and members began to take umbrage at variations on the phrase.
University officials said they're aware of the backlash they may receive for the course title, but will reportedly stand by their choice unless faced with demands from “offended students” to adjust it.
I highly doubt this title will sit well with the university’s Black Lives Matter activists and liberal community at large, considering they are always exceptionally huffy. And it won't matter that the name was picked by the school's "diversity officer." BLM supporters find “Blue Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter” provocative, and I’ve heard one too many times how those names delegitimize and snubs the mission of the Black Lives Matter movement. So what makes this any different?
Recent Wisconsin grad Nathan Fiene and environmental consultant Tracy Thomas are here to tell you.
Fiene reportedly disagrees with the “highly questionable” title, but said he supports the class material because it supposedly indicates how environmental policies are racist.
As for Thomas, she referenced that blacks historically had to live in neglected environments, telling Fox News that “‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Green Lives Matter’ share one common thread-contiguity.” She believes that the ‘Green Lives Matter’ course promotes the real objectives of BLM.
And if it helps smooth any potentially ruffled feathers, the professors teaching the course will reportedly be people “of color, women, and blue collar sectors of society."