Has Yale Become a PC Joke?

[Anonymous]

I suppose YMCA Indian Guides is no more. That seemed quite respectful of Indian culture, but the PC police probably don't agree.

[Anonymous]

This song probably won't appear this year in the Yale Whiffenpoofs' repertoire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIK2WW8SoJk

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Anonymous wrote:So you think college students should show moral outrage whenever another college student tells someone s/he disagrees with to shut the fuck up? Or is it just when they tell authority figures to STFU?

The fact that you even have to tell someone to exercise respect when choosing a costume says volumes about a broken moral compass.

Why anyone would purposely wear something fully knowing that it's offensive and hurtful has deeper issues regardless of your right for free expression.

Yawn.

No response eh

Suppose some student decided to dress up as corrupt dictator Robert Mugabe? (It's college, so kids have pretty far-ranging ideas.) Would some students find that offensive?! It would be hard for them to argue "cultural misappropriation" unless they wanted to embrace Mugabe's "culture".

Mugabe supporters would certainly find it offensive. And they are black, so no kiddin'

Are there any Mugabe supporters left anywhere, other than those who lined their pockets along with him?

I had a neighbor who a few years ago dressed up as Marion Barry with a "posse of prostitutes" for a Halloween party. We all thought it was a scream. However, my guess is that the obscenity-screaming girl at Yale would have found that offensive.

And I'm sure your neighbor was in black face to complete the costume. How delightful you and your neighbor are.

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Anonymous wrote:So you think college students should show moral outrage whenever another college student tells someone s/he disagrees with to shut the fuck up? Or is it just when they tell authority figures to STFU?

The fact that you even have to tell someone to exercise respect when choosing a costume says volumes about a broken moral compass.

Why anyone would purposely wear something fully knowing that it's offensive and hurtful has deeper issues regardless of your right for free expression.

Yawn.

No response eh

Suppose some student decided to dress up as corrupt dictator Robert Mugabe? (It's college, so kids have pretty far-ranging ideas.) Would some students find that offensive?! It would be hard for them to argue "cultural misappropriation" unless they wanted to embrace Mugabe's "culture".

Mugabe supporters would certainly find it offensive. And they are black, so no kiddin'

Are there any Mugabe supporters left anywhere, other than those who lined their pockets along with him?

I had a neighbor who a few years ago dressed up as Marion Barry with a "posse of prostitutes" for a Halloween party. We all thought it was a scream. However, my guess is that the obscenity-screaming girl at Yale would have found that offensive.

As long as the prostitutes were Asian, no Barry friend would have complained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This song probably won't appear this year in the Yale Whiffenpoofs' repertoire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIK2WW8SoJk

Amusing when Europeans and other countries mock Americans as crude and ignorant, we get uptight, defensive, and offended. But we have no issues mocking others. Some 'children' never grow up.

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Anonymous wrote:This song probably won't appear this year in the Yale Whiffenpoofs' repertoire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIK2WW8SoJk

Amusing when Europeans and other countries mock Americans as crude and ignorant, we get uptight, defensive, and offended. But we have no issues mocking others. Some 'children' never grow up.

Millions living in banana-republics find this offensive, yet YouTube still hosts it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fy3eH-7LQY

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Anonymous wrote:So you think college students should show moral outrage whenever another college student tells someone s/he disagrees with to shut the fuck up? Or is it just when they tell authority figures to STFU?

The fact that you even have to tell someone to exercise respect when choosing a costume says volumes about a broken moral compass.

Why anyone would purposely wear something fully knowing that it's offensive and hurtful has deeper issues regardless of your right for free expression.

Yawn.

No response eh

Suppose some student decided to dress up as corrupt dictator Robert Mugabe? (It's college, so kids have pretty far-ranging ideas.) Would some students find that offensive?! It would be hard for them to argue "cultural misappropriation" unless they wanted to embrace Mugabe's "culture".

Mugabe supporters would certainly find it offensive. And they are black, so no kiddin'

Are there any Mugabe supporters left anywhere, other than those who lined their pockets along with him?

I had a neighbor who a few years ago dressed up as Marion Barry with a "posse of prostitutes" for a Halloween party. We all thought it was a scream. However, my guess is that the obscenity-screaming girl at Yale would have found that offensive.

And I'm sure your neighbor was in black face to complete the costume. How delightful you and your neighbor are.

Not the PP but I think it's sounds pretty funny. You know, no one screamed offense at costumes of Romney, Trump, rob ford, et al. How about a Christie costume involving a cell phone and giant smoothie? Offensive to fat loudmouths? barry made himself into a caricature. He was a public figure who smoked crack, liked hookers and liked to talk trash about Asian carryout owners. Yeah, he is fair game for Halloween costumes. Just as those others are.

[Anonymous]

I see Yale as a crappy place now for young white men who ought to be able to navigate their way to adulthood without a large group of adults and minority students constantly berating them about their white privileges and cautioning them at every opportunity as to how they should comport themselves in order not to offend others. I'd want my kid not to feel like he'd spent four years at a Mao-ist re-education center or come out fluent in "upspeak" because he'd been taught to second and third-guess the propriety of his comments before a sentence ever left his mouth - all while the "oppressed" students were exempt from any such restrictions.

It's a shame, because there are surely a lot of bright people there, but it's clearly lost its bearings. I feel very sorry for Erika Christakis, who sounds like one of the sole voices of sanity left there.

[Anonymous]

This dog just graduated from Yale's liberal arts program and is now ready for the real world.

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Anonymous wrote:So you think college students should show moral outrage whenever another college student tells someone s/he disagrees with to shut the fuck up? Or is it just when they tell authority figures to STFU?

The fact that you even have to tell someone to exercise respect when choosing a costume says volumes about a broken moral compass.

Why anyone would purposely wear something fully knowing that it's offensive and hurtful has deeper issues regardless of your right for free expression.

Yawn.

No response eh

Suppose some student decided to dress up as corrupt dictator Robert Mugabe? (It's college, so kids have pretty far-ranging ideas.) Would some students find that offensive?! It would be hard for them to argue "cultural misappropriation" unless they wanted to embrace Mugabe's "culture".

Mugabe supporters would certainly find it offensive. And they are black, so no kiddin'

Are there any Mugabe supporters left anywhere, other than those who lined their pockets along with him?

I had a neighbor who a few years ago dressed up as Marion Barry with a "posse of prostitutes" for a Halloween party. We all thought it was a scream. However, my guess is that the obscenity-screaming girl at Yale would have found that offensive.

And I'm sure your neighbor was in black face to complete the costume. How delightful you and your neighbor are.

Not the PP but I think it's sounds pretty funny. You know, no one screamed offense at costumes of Romney, Trump, rob ford, et al. How about a Christie costume involving a cell phone and giant smoothie? Offensive to fat loudmouths? barry made himself into a caricature. He was a public figure who smoked crack, liked hookers and liked to talk trash about Asian carryout owners. Yeah, he is fair game for Halloween costumes. Just as those others are.

You can whitewash it (pun intended) any way you want. None of the examples you list compares to blackface and it's history. None. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This dog just graduated from Yale's liberal arts program and is now ready for the real world.

Is your smiling picture in the dictionary next to the word 'idiot?' Congrats!

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Anonymous wrote:So you think college students should show moral outrage whenever another college student tells someone s/he disagrees with to shut the fuck up? Or is it just when they tell authority figures to STFU?

The fact that you even have to tell someone to exercise respect when choosing a costume says volumes about a broken moral compass.

Why anyone would purposely wear something fully knowing that it's offensive and hurtful has deeper issues regardless of your right for free expression.

Yawn.

No response eh

Suppose some student decided to dress up as corrupt dictator Robert Mugabe? (It's college, so kids have pretty far-ranging ideas.) Would some students find that offensive?! It would be hard for them to argue "cultural misappropriation" unless they wanted to embrace Mugabe's "culture".

Mugabe supporters would certainly find it offensive. And they are black, so no kiddin'

Are there any Mugabe supporters left anywhere, other than those who lined their pockets along with him?

I had a neighbor who a few years ago dressed up as Marion Barry with a "posse of prostitutes" for a Halloween party. We all thought it was a scream. However, my guess is that the obscenity-screaming girl at Yale would have found that offensive.

And I'm sure your neighbor was in black face to complete the costume. How delightful you and your neighbor are.

Not the PP but I think it's sounds pretty funny. You know, no one screamed offense at costumes of Romney, Trump, rob ford, et al. How about a Christie costume involving a cell phone and giant smoothie? Offensive to fat loudmouths? barry made himself into a caricature. He was a public figure who smoked crack, liked hookers and liked to talk trash about Asian carryout owners. Yeah, he is fair game for Halloween costumes. Just as those others are.

You can whitewash it (pun intended) any way you want. None of the examples you list compares to blackface and it's history. None. Period.

Strawman argument. Noone at Yale was supporting blackface during Halloween. All the professor's wife did was ask that students police their own costumes and to do critical thinking themselves. You should read the e-mail, it was very reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:This dog just graduated from Yale's liberal arts program and is now ready for the real world.

Is your smiling picture in the dictionary next to the word 'idiot?' Congrats!

Nope, but it is next to the word "funny" and "truth". Yours must be next to the word "hysterical".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see Yale as a crappy place now for young white men who ought to be able to navigate their way to adulthood without a large group of adults and minority students constantly berating them about their white privileges and cautioning them at every opportunity as to how they should comport themselves in order not to offend others. I'd want my kid not to feel like he'd spent four years at a Mao-ist re-education center or come out fluent in "upspeak" because he'd been taught to second and third-guess the propriety of his comments before a sentence ever left his mouth - all while the "oppressed" students were exempt from any such restrictions.

It's a shame, because there are surely a lot of bright people there, but it's clearly lost its bearings. I feel very sorry for Erika Christakis, who sounds like one of the sole voices of sanity left there.

+1. She, and her husband, are amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:I see Yale as a crappy place now for young white men who ought to be able to navigate their way to adulthood without a large group of adults and minority students constantly berating them about their white privileges and cautioning them at every opportunity as to how they should comport themselves in order not to offend others. I'd want my kid not to feel like he'd spent four years at a Mao-ist re-education center or come out fluent in "upspeak" because he'd been taught to second and third-guess the propriety of his comments before a sentence ever left his mouth - all while the "oppressed" students were exempt from any such restrictions.

It's a shame, because there are surely a lot of bright people there, but it's clearly lost its bearings. I feel very sorry for Erika Christakis, who sounds like one of the sole voices of sanity left there.

+1. She, and her husband, are amazing.

Yup. I'm apalled that the president apologized to those assholes who screamed at and bullied these two but not one word of public support for the only voices of reason. I hope that Yale alums are making their voices heard on this. These two are being scapegoated and the university admin is falling over themselves to let that happen.