Columbia Students Say Thomas Jefferson Statue 'Validates Rape'

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Students at Columbia University have it pretty good. After all, they're getting an education at a school that costs over $71,000 per year to attend, so it's unlikely that many of them have grown up in abject poverty.
But perhaps all of that privilege made them completely insane. For example, some students think a statue of Thomas Jefferson at Columbia is going to get them raped:

A  group of Columbia University students might be reading a little too much into a sculpture that has stood on campus for 103 years. The college’s statue of Thomas Jefferson, located in front of Pulitzer Hall, is now seen by some as a “a symbol of violence against black and brown bodies.”

A group calling themselves the Mobilized African Diaspora -- or MAD, have made some absurd demands from the school, from hiring more black faculty, to the school forcing undergraduate students to take compulsory diversity classes. Most recently, however, the group covered the Jefferson statue with a Ku Klux Klan hood and posed in front of it with anti-Jefferson signs in a symbolic protest gesture, according to a photo MAD posted on its Facebook page.