The mental health crisis in America is epidemic, and higher education appears eager to embrace it.
A New York college is affirming the delusions of seemingly mentally unstable students, presumably because that’s a demographic that will continue to vote Democrat no matter how bad things get.
The student government at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh approved a student “furry” group.
“Plattfur” was officially recognized as a club by an 11-1 vote, and is just one of “several dozen” furry college clubs popping up around the country, according to The College Fix.
Sixty percent of people identifying as furries are enrolled in higher education, with more than 75 percent being under the age of 25, a study from the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (also known as Furscience) found.
“We aim to not only have social dialogs, but also incorporate certain elements of crafts as well as arts, and not only teach methods, but also invite people to explore stuff that they may not have before,” Styx Williams told the Cardinal Points newspaper.
“Originally, this started with a handful of us that were friends that kind of just found out that we’re all furries,” Williams continued. “We realized that there’s not really a club geared toward that on campus, and through reaching out to other people in different areas of campus, we found out that there are quite a few furries on campus.”
Don’t brush off SUNY’s new furry group too quickly. “Plattfur” is far from alone, and the troubling trend is growing.
Just a few of the colleges embracing the trend are the University of California, Berkeley, which has had a longstanding club, with newer ones at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), approved in March, The College Fix reported.
Psychologist Kathy Gerbasi, professor emerita at SUNY Niagara and research partner with Furscience, told the College Fix that the newly formed group will help “destigmatize” the practice and make it less “risky to come out as a furry.”
“That is not supported by our data,” she said. “Membership in the furry fandom is based on a common interest in anthropomorphic characters and related art.”
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