Summer of Floyd

English Etymology Modelled on en Summer of Love, using the name en Floyd. Proper noun 1 Summer of Floyd en usually derogatory US politics The summer of 2020, marked by unrest and protests against the murder of George Floyd beginning from May 26, 2020. Zak Cheney-Rice Minneapolis Police Department Survives Ballot Question 2 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/minneapolis-police-department-survives-ballot-question-2.html https://archive.ph/W3aES 25 January 2026 5 November 2021 Contrary to what the summer of Floyd seemed to portend, "people" are clamoring for more and better-funded cops, not a systemic revamp. en w:Richard Hanania Is the Backlash to Universities Becoming Real? Tablet https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/backlash-universities-real-dei-richard-hanania https://archive.ph/4qLtt 22 May 2024 10 May 2024 And although not directly related to the protests, in the midst of these disturbances MIT became the first elite private school to ban DEI statements in faculty hiring and promotion, showing that the "Summer of Floyd" effect that once seemed to push all prestigious institutions in the same direction may be fading. en w:James Hankins Why I'm Leaving Harvard Compact https://www.compactmag.com/article/why-im-leaving-harvard/ https://archive.ph/paI31 22 January 2026 29 December 2025 The year earlier the university had collectively taken a knee during the Summer of Floyd. This turned out not to be empty virtue-signalling, as I expected, but had serious consequences for the way we conducted our affairs. en C. Douglas Golden Unbelievable: Don Lemon Lectures Pastor on Christianity After Anti-ICE Rioters Storm Church Service w:The Western Journal https://www.westernjournal.com/unbelievable-don-lemon-lectures-pastor-christianity-anti-ice-rioters-storm-church-service/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260223054356/https://www.westernjournal.com/unbelievable-don-lemon-lectures-pastor-christianity-anti-ice-rioters-storm-church-service/ 23 February 2026 19 January 2026 In one fell swoop, they've turned virtually every person of faith against them — even the liberal Christians. They've taken a worship service, a hallowed and sacred rite that is an integral part of the Christian faith, and turned it into an advertisement for ... what? The fact that these people haven't learned from the excesses of the Summer of Floyd™? en History of the United States Social justice Leftism en eponyms