Penn State Students Complain About Pediatric Cancer Fundraiser Because it Lacks Diversity
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February 27, 2023I’m really beginning to lose my patience with my fellow young people. My respect is also non-existent, but I didn’t lose that. Can’t lose something you never had…
With as much as the lefty blowhards like to preach about love, service to important causes, and caring for others, you’d think the whiners in this story would’ve taken a minute to think about this. I guess you would need braincells for that, though, wouldn’t you?
From The College Fix:
An annual fundraiser at Pennsylvania State University that raises money to help kids suffering from cancer is too white, according to some student leaders.
Called THON, the annual event involves 46 hours of dancing and entertainment and “raises funds and awareness for the fight against childhood cancer,” according to the group’s website.
But the event, run by campus fraternities and sororities, is not diverse enough, according to the editorial board of the campus newspaper and a student government leader.
Jeanelle Loiseau is the chief of staff for the University Park Undergraduate Association and was a Black Caucus representative.
She said she “never felt safe” attending the annual event and wrote that “THON wasn’t made for people of color.”
One issue is that the primary event is run by two Greek life organizations but does not include the “the National Pan-Hellenic Council and Multicultural Greek Council,” which she said are primarily made up of racial minorities.
Loiseau also said there was “known racism” based on one complaint about one black girl allegedly being told something about her hair. The student leader also said that a “gender-fluid” student was not treated well because there were only bathrooms for women and women.
She wrote:
Last year, Teddy Wilson, a gender-fluid student, participated in THON as an IDC pair. While they were provided gender-neutral storage, they were not provided a gender-neutral bathroom to use. They were forced to use either the men’s or women’s bathroom, which gave them great anxiety. Their message was addressed to the whole Penn State community — that there should be accessibility for all.
The student wrote that while she is “extremely grateful,” for how THON had highlighted a project of hers, there is more to be done. That includes an official name change and a separate “minority/multicultural THON organization.”
The event must also “increase the amount of POC dancers, executive directors, captains and committee members yearly — not allowing numbers to decrease.”
“After these alarming statistics, THON did take steps to improve the culture of its organization, implementing a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan for THON 2023,” the paper wrote. “Other clubs and organizations at Penn State should follow this initiative by being transparent with its demographics and create yearly action plans to track its diversity.
This is honestly the angriest I’ve been after reading something in a long time. Checking my news feeds every day is depressing, don’t get me wrong. The blatant disregard for sick children, though, seems like a whole new low.
My family was left fractured by childhood cancer, and I don’t take the subject lightly. Perhaps that’s why I find this story so particularly inflammatory, but holy sh*t…
PLEASE, if nothing else, teach your kids that NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT THEM. That one lesson acts as a foundation for so many other great characteristics. If you skip teaching your kids how to deal with that, then you get jacka$$ people like this…
Imagine, for a second, being such a low-life sh*thead that you get angry about a fundraiser for pediatric cancer patients not being DIVERSE ENOUGH.
We’ve truly run out of things to complain about, haven’t we?
My hope for humanity fades more and more with each passing day.
Please leave your recommendations for lighthearted movies/TV shows below. I need to decompress…
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Oh, for Heaven’s sake! Children are hurting and it matters none to them about how dominant one people group is over another with regard to raising money to help them. Many years ago, a church my daughter and I once attended, hosted a performance by Uncle Charlie, host of the radio program, Children’s Bible Hour and the program’s child performers. The show took place at a predominantly black church and some of the parents complained about there being no black children in the program, thus putting a damper on the otherwise excellent performance. However, the children seemed to enjoy the show, even if their parents were being irrational. If the parents wanted diversity, there was NOTHING stopping them from encouraging their children to try out for the Children’s Bible Hour. They fail to understand that the host and the performers didn’t have to come to our venue, but did so anyway. Likewise, there’s nothing keeping Jeanelle from taking part in THON and encouraging others like her to do so. She was just looking for something to complain, thus drawing attention away from alleviating the pain felt by cancer-stricken children.
Good lord these people are their own worst enemies and can only get people to play with them through force.
“THON wasn’t made for people of color.”
It was made for a purpose other than catering specifically to minorities? Or perhaps it wasn’t made for people who constantly want to be the victim because if they did try to cater to your group it would somehow be cultural appropriation, tokenization or some other nonsense so you can be a victim either way.
they were not provided a gender-neutral bathroom to use
It’s almost like bathrooms were built specifically along biological lines and “gender is a social construct” has nothing to do with it other than the categories used to define these also happen to be categories in same said system. If you’d manage to take your head out of your bum and realize that words have multiple meanings and should be derived from what the speaker says not through what you want the speaker to say.
Gender neutral restrooms? There were restrooms for people with both XX and XY chromosomes. Pick the one that matches you. Everybody else did.
Don’t feel “safe” in a group? Sounds like you have a “phobia”. That makes you a “something-o-phobe”. Maybe you need to learn to get over your fear of being around people that don’t look like you.