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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And if the outraged students hadn't been so confrontational then Yale wouldn't be having this broader discussion right now.  Kudos to the kids who had the guts to insist that the racial climate at Yale is an issue that needs to be discussed.[/quote]

Not at all true.  Indeed, the conversation about racial issues was embraced by the President of the University at his opening speech this year in the context of a school discussion as to whether the name of Calhoun Hall should be changed and by an email from the Master of another residential college who suggested that students should not call him Master any longer because he didn't want anyone to feel uncomfortable.  The university promoted this dialogue without swearing or intimidation.  Perhaps not fast enough or loud enough for some, but the school year began in late August and all this hit the fan the week of Halloween.  The Yale Daily news has featured many OpEds on many sides of these issues.  And yes, some of them prompted some rather uncivil reactions.  Unfortunately, rather than some students viewing the administration as this year welcoming dialogue and change, they have used it as a window to escalate as reflected in that unseemly video of the student screaming at the administrator.  The tantrum in the video accurately reflects the problem on many campuses -- some students believe if they don't like the answer they get it means the administration doesn't care about them and intentionally supports racism.  [/quote]

+1 The e-mail originally sent out was civil and spurred discussion. The response should have been to open up a dialogue, not yell and scream and tantrum.[/quote]

+2. Just read the Professor's email, and it is much much much smarter than anything else coming out of this whole fiasco. That her DH and she must now go through PC hell is simply disgusting.[/quote]

There's some nuanced thinking lacking on the part of the protesters. She didn't appear to be condoning offensive costumes as much as she was attempting to start a dialogue about where appreciation ends and appropriation begins. She wrote, "I don’t know the answer to these questions; they seem unanswerable. Or at the least, they put us on slippery terrain that I, for one, prefer not to cross."

I don't know how one could assume from her messaging that she would condone or encourage anything meant to denigrate and humiliate.

She clearly wants students to start a dialogue about this, and why shouldn't they? I can't imagine any rational-thinking person thinking blackface is OK. That's clearly not the intended audience here. [/quote]

Exactly. She was encouraging the students to think for themselves, to learn for themselves, instead of blindly obeying some random bureaucratic authority.

But doing so at Yale sounds as tough as feeding caviar to pigs.[/quote]

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