Binghamton University is home to some of the most esteemed and influential student organizations in New York. We can be proud of most of the events that take place on our campus, whether we participate in them or not.
But every spring, we are also forced to endure unwelcome religious extremists who pollute our eyes and ears.
These are the old, haggard-looking and cultish locals who seem to have climbed from the depths of the human sewage system. In addition to lowering the average hygiene level of BU, they pull out all the stops in their attempt to lower our average IQ.
Whether these demonstrations are performed in the hopes of simply causing a scene or legitimately educating us in the philosophy of rigid ancient texts, they are almost always instantly met with unwelcoming students and signs.
The demonstrators often hold signs and posters implying that homosexuals need to be saved by Jesus Christ before an eternity of fire, brimstone and unpleasantness befalls them.
In addition to these delightful ideals, the extremists who so naively visit our campus every year are mostly anti-Semites, though thankfully they offer salvation for their Jewish counterparts. But if anti-Semitism is one of their main ideologies, Binghamton University is probably not the best place to seek new followers.
These people have fallen so far into the rabbit hole that they actually believe they are doing students a favor by speaking to us.
But besides being offensive to the entire gay community on campus, these demonstrators just piss people off. I don’t enjoy stepping outdoors on a sunny day only to be bombarded with hateful ideologies and atrociously scented lunatics.
I’m a firm believer in free speech; people have the right to voice their thoughts and opinions. But when your thoughts and opinions disrupt the environment in which thousands of students pay thousands of dollars to be educated, they should be relocated.
I could understand if BU was a private Christian campus located in a cave deep in Missouri in the 1950s; perhaps under those circumstances, public demonstrations of such shallow views could change the minds of two or three drones, but this is a fairly liberal campus, and it’s 2012. Good luck.
I think the simple solution is to prohibit, or at least limit the activities of these nomads on our campus, leaving the BU campus to BU students — unless they were hired by BU for our yearly filming of the overly dramatic and annoying Binghamton edition of “America’s Most Moronic.”
For now, the least we can do is completely ignore these people on our campus. We cannot dignify their views of bigotry in our place of learning.
I suppose on the positive side, we can be thankful that the demonstrators do show up on campus and share their ideas with us. This way we have a perfect model of stagnant ideals we can base our own progress away from, not to mention our personal hygiene.