We’ve seen this happen over and over again, and not just on college campuses. Everyone just looks the other way on social distancing rules when Black Lives Matter decides to protest.The College Fix reports:
College exempts 500-person Black Lives Matter protest from 10-person COVID rulesIt’s long past clear by now: If you want to hang out with friends, make sure to chant Black Lives Matters slogans while you’re doing it.Vermont’s Middlebury College facilitated a 500-person student rally that included “some faculty and community members,” organized a day after the Breonna Taylor verdict in Louisville, The Middlebury Campus reports.Under its Phase 2 guidelines that started in mid-September, Middlebury banned gatherings of more than 10 people, “indoors or outdoors, on or off campus.” This meant students could get in trouble for even small gatherings outside Middlebury’s control if they were reported.Even “organized outdoor activities” with advance approval by the college were limited to 75 people. (On Tuesday the administration said it will move to an “expanded Phase 2” that does not change limits on gathering size.)While the campus newspaper claimed protesting students gathered in “carefully coordinated groups of 10,” and “college staff helped coordinate the march and ensured protesters followed social distancing rules,” Campus Reform reports that “pictures of the [Sept. 25] event raise questions as to whether those procedures were followed.”Four days before the college rolled out the red carpet for an event that explicitly violated its own policies, Middlebury announced that 22 students had violated its COVID-19 policies. It revoked their “on-campus housing privileges” and banned them “from visiting, studying, or taking courses on campus.”“I can tell you that these were very difficult decisions to make, but there is nothing more important than the health and safety of our community,” Dean of Students Derek Doucet claimed, which in retrospect was false:
This is disappointing news in the context of the overall high level of compliance our students have demonstrated to this point, which has allowed us to advance to Phase 2 of our reopening. …Our requirements are designed to protect the entire community. Adhering to them is of the utmost importance as we continue to live with this pandemic.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL VERSION OF THIS STORY