Of course they didn’t mean it to be public, it was terrible. We covered the memo in question in an earlier post. Now the school is back-tracking.
The College Fix reports:
University of Minnesota says its anti-Christmas memo wasn’t supposed to leak to the publicThe University of Minnesota has limited options in responding to a memo distributed during a “Dean’s Dialogues” event on “religious diversity,” hosted by its agricultural school.We’ve all seen it: The memo calls all manner of secular holiday garb “not appropriate,” including bows, bells, Santa Claus, conifers, wrapped gifts, and any red-and-green or blue-and-white themes.So it resorted to the excuse of last resort: The public wasn’t supposed to see it.A spokesperson for the agricultural school initially told Campus Reform the memo was “not policy” and “not for distribution.”This is a slight tweak to what a universitywide spokesperson originally told The Fix: The memo was “not distributed broadly” to agricultural-school employees and does not reflect current university, school-specific or Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action “official guidance.”The university appears to have told the agricultural school to stop talking. In a followup statement to Campus Reform, the administration passed the buck to “a single employee whose attempt at a diversity training session was, to be blunt, ill advised.”It told the media outlet the university “would never implement” a policy on religious diversity for holidays.
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