Throughout history, human beings have been forced to endure - and, in many cases - survive some of the most horrific circumstances imaginable. From war to imprisonment, abuse and torture, insurmountable poverty and starvation, the resilience of the human spirit has shone through the hardest times one can possibly conceive.
Which makes it all the more pathetic that in 2025 America, “trauma” is defined by some as…having hurt feelings.
That’s all it took for one Long Island teen to file an actual lawsuit over - wait for it, y’all - a parking spot being painted over.
According to this, the Half Hollow Hills High School West senior - who is somehow a brave activist for human rights, but who still hides behind the pseudonym “Jane Khan” - painted her official school parking spot last summer with pro-Palestine messaging, including the image of a watermelon in Palestinian colors and a keffiyeh pattern (your guess is as good as mine on that one), her own name written in Arabic, and the Islamic phrase “Peace Be Upon You.”
Two days later, after receiving complaints from Jewish students on campus, Half Hollow Hills West Principal Dr. Michael Catapano questioned “Khan” over the paint job - which was done without permission on school property, I’ll remind you, and which “Khan” knew full well sent a clear, anti-Israel message to Jewish students on campus, even if she now wants to pretend otherwise.
Two days later, the watermelon image in Palestinian colors was painted over.
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Now, according to her suit, “Khan” says she endured “trauma and suffering” over her painting being covered up.
“Half Hollow had no history of open tension between its ample Muslim and Jewish populations – to the contrary, it enjoyed an enviable history of positive coexistence,” Khan said in her suit, in which she stated she's seeking damages for the “emotional trauma and suffering” she endured.
There’s something terribly ironic about a person who holds themselves up as a supporter of the human rights of people living in an active war zone whining about the “trauma” of someone painting over their cartoon watermelon scrawled on a patch of asphalt.
Then again, introspection has never been leftists’ strong suit.