An apology from the West Chester University (Pennsylvania) Campus Store Twitter account is not enough, activists say, regarding the sale of an inflatable six-inch female doll.
As reported by The College Fix, the dolls, which were left over from Valentine’s Day, were pulled from the store’s shelves last week after some complaints.
There was also a male version of the doll, but those sold out back in February.
Even the school’s president sending out an email calling the doll “tasteless,” “offensive,” and “demeaning” wasn’t enough to assuage the WCU seekers of social justice.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
On Wednesday morning, university president Greg R. Weisenstein sent an email to the campus community calling the incident a teaching moment.
“This tasteless and offensive merchandise raised concerns from many on campus who correctly view it as demeaning of women and encouraging of behaviors antithetical to WCU’s mission and values,” he said. He noted that the bookstore had apologized.
A Friday tweet from the WCU Campus Store Twitter account, which had 658 followers, read, “We apologize for any offense this may have caused. We have removed the 6 in. ‘inflate-a-date’ from the sales floor.”
Graduate student Irissa Baxter, who helped organize Wednesday’s rally, said the Twitter apology was not enough. The students plan to hold a sit-in at Weisenstein’s office Thursday morning to ask for a formal public apology from the school and encourage Weisenstein to address concerns about systemic violence.
Baxter added, “Students want to be heard and respected, and have their concerns be treated with due respect.”
Um, they were heard. Did not the store remove the doll and issue an apology?
For SJWs, enough is never enough.
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