MIT ‘Alumnx Pride’ to Host Special ‘Lavender Graduation’ for LGBT Students
“There will be music, speeches, graduate celebrations, a mini-dance party, and more.”
Alumnx? Really? The left is obsessed with adding the letter ‘x’ to existing words.
Campus Reform reports:
MIT ‘Alumnx Pride’ set to host special ‘Lavender Graduation’ for non-straight students
A group that promotes LGBT ideology at a premier university in Cambridge, Massachusetts is set to soon host a special graduation for those students who identify as “LBGTQ+.”
“Alumnx Pride” and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Alumni Association are organizing a “Lavender Graduation” at the beginning of next month.
“The entire MIT community (students, staff, faculty, family, friends) is invited to enjoy and be with us on this date to recognize our grads,” the event’s description page reads. “There will be music, speeches, graduate celebrations, a mini-dance party, and more.”
“Alumnx” is intended to be a gender-neutral term for “alumni.” Campus Reform reported that MIT made use of the term as early as 2020.
Alumnx Pride describes its mission as harnessing “the acumen, resources, and influence of MIT’s LGBTQ+ alumni to advance equity and belonging at the Institute, in STEM fields, and within the broader society for our community.”
The group also strives for an “equitable world in which LGBTQ+ alumni, students, staff, and faculty can live authentically, connect through our shared affinity for MIT, and enjoy full inclusion and belonging within our respective fields.”
This year’s Lavender Graduation will be hybrid, taking place both in person and online. In years past, the event had taken place in MIT’s “Rainbow Lounge,” which students can reserve from LGBTQ+ Services, the school’s “intercultural campus resource for diverse gender, romantic, and sexual identities.”
In 2022, Campus Reform reported that the lounge was used for weekly meetings of “Queer Bible Study.”
The Lavender Graduation is not the only identity-based graduation ceremony MIT is hosting this year. The “Black Graduate Celebration” is scheduled to take place on April 19.
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How many gay people with real majors will attend this particular graduation ceremony?
At MIT, pretty much all the styrofoam has to share a single major: Humanities. (Although Political Science and Climate Science — formerly Meteorology — are often suspect, and Management and Economics are not always above suspicion.) Every other major is a hard science or engineering discipline. There are no athletic majors or formal pre-med/pre-law programs.
But stimulating reality-based fare is also on tap this month. A video is now available of a debate held just this last Wednesday by the MIT Free Speech Alliance on “Is Sex Binary,” moderated by Nadine Strossen. The comments are refreshing — the (real) science-oriented attendees ruthlessly savaged the pretensions and fantasies of the unicorn people.
“the acumen, resources, and influence of MIT’s LGBTQ+ alumni to advance equity and belonging at the Institute, in STEM fields, and within the broader society for our community.”
Isn’t this preferential treatment illegal?
The only defense would be to say that it wasn’t providing favoritism to an immutable characteristic, in which case, then everything else would come a tumbling down.
Who will be speaking? That sexually fluid luggage thief who was also a “furry tamer”? [WRETCH}……..