Seriously, you cannot make this stuff up!
Yale students go on a hunger strike to protest benefits.
Except, when they get hungry, they eat.
I guess this is how snowflakes do hunger strikes.
Maybe Yale should give them ‘symbolic’ benefits?
Yale grad students begin ‘symbolic’ hunger strike for benefits; CNN’s Jake Tapper mocks event
A group of Yale University graduate students are engaged in a “symbolic” hunger strike – rumbling stomachs may be filled with food – for better benefits. Student union Local 33 began a “collective fast” in front of University President Peter Salovey’s home on Tuesday.
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News of their efforts for collective bargaining reached CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday when a former student shared a pamphlet given to participants.
And this:
“Update: the Yale grad student union is holding a *symbolic* hunger strike (they eat when hungry) Still inspirational,” Dimitri Halikias of Brookings’ Center for Children and Families tweeted on Wednesday.
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“Yeah that’s not really how hunger strikes work,” responded Politico Editor in Chief Blake Hounshell.
“I eat when I’m hungry too but I don’t call it a hunger strike,” wrote Mr. Tapper.
The Yale College Republicans got them good.
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