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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I don't agree with the student's approach using profanity and yelling, I find it amusing at the numerous comments about how we as a civil society don't do this type of behavior which is total hogwash.  Regardless of her behavior, she is certainly NOT the first and only college student to exhibit boorish behavior and, for the record I agree with her premise, not the presentation.

Some of you need to pick up history books about campus unrest.  I would be interested how you categorize those types of confrontation.

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I think her premise (i.e., that an academic fellow or master at Yale should step down because he refused to condemn other Yale students in stronger language) is weak, but that her behavior (loud, obscene and threatening) was entirely uinacceptable and, at a minimum, warranted suspended her or putting her on probation.

I am familiar with the history of campus unrest, and it largely had to do with macro-aggressions (e.g., opposition to the Vietnam War), not micro-aggressions (I'm feeling butthurt because some of my fellow students are kind of jerky), and even then students who engaged in protests and sit-ins faced consequences - which they often welcomed, because they were deeply committed to what they were doing, not silly drama queens who expect to be allowed to pitch fits and curse out white male administrators without any consequences.   [/quote]

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