Eric the Red

I took the following picture with my camera phone a matter of minutes ago while walking from the Stamp Student Union to a meeting with some friends at Glenn L. Martin Hall. The banner was hanging from the Hornbake Library:

This is a perfect example of the sheer stupidity of modern liberalism. Everything and everyone must be labeled, categorized, cross-categorized and filed in the proper drawer: by age range, sex, race, religion, specific country of origin and physical handicapp (if any). There are no “American Indians”, its “Native Americans”. It isn’t enough to be recognized as Hispanic, you have to be Hispanic from El Salvador. Or, most accurately, “black-Jewish-El Salvadoran-womyn-in a wheelchair”….I mean “physical mobility impaired-El Salvadoran womyn of African origin practicing the Jewish faith”. Of course, the only ones that are remotely human are the Aryans right (emphasis on sarcasm)?

Well folks, I want my fair share of labeling and filing. From this point forward, I demand that the government recognize every possible combination of races and national origins so that each and every individual can feel extra special.

Are we promoting a subculture of nationalism within our own nation, where we will derive our strength not from our common goals and needs, but our ethnic and religious differences? That sounds more like weakness to me…