COLLEGE students signed a fake petition to cancel Memorial Day for “celebrating US imperialism,” and want to “abolish the military.”
Conservative news site Campus Reform set up a fake petition and walked around the Georgetown area of Washington DC asking students to sign.
The fake petition said that Memorial Day, which is meant to honor fallen veterans, is a “celebration of American imperialism” and should be banned.
Several of the students Campus Reform interviewed agreed with the sentiment, while others were unsure what Memorial Day was for in the first place.
“I’m not celebrating. I don’t think Memorial Day should be a thing that we celebrate personally,” one student said.
“I feel like it’s a celebration of US imperialism and colonialism.”
The same student later added, “I didn’t really feel this way until I got to college and took women’s and gender studies classes, and that put me on this path of, yes, f**k the US.”
When asked if he believes the US military should be completely abolished, he said, “yes please.”
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