Assumption University Student Government Promotes Anti-Racism Pledge

At a time when the doctrine of woke holds that “silence is complicity” and when the gospel according to Kendi decrees all matters must be judged as functions of pigmentation, the to-do at Assumption University, a Catholic institution located in Worcester, Mass., merits our attention and concern — even perhaps our anger.

To many, what has happened may be little more than a commonplace occurrence, a thing of frequency to be tolerated and accepted. What can be so bad about this contretemps?

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At a time when the doctrine of woke holds that “silence is complicity” and when the gospel according to Kendi decrees all matters must be judged as functions of pigmentation, the to-do at Assumption University, a Catholic institution located in Worcester, Mass., merits our attention and concern — even perhaps our anger.

To many, what has happened may be little more than a commonplace occurrence, a thing of frequency to be tolerated and accepted. What can be so bad about this contretemps?