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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not like the tenor of this thread:  if you are black and/or are FA and something bothers you on an elite campus you should say nothing and just go to the library.  You are spoiled and entitled just because you go to a prestigious university, and therefore have an easy life and should just let go and get back to class if you are denied entrance into a party because you are black. The behavior of these students is very mild compared to the free speech movement  and the black power movement in the 60s. You have no idea what their lives have been like, or are now.
Do I think all their demands are reasonable, not I don't.[b]  But they have every right to articulate them. [/b] I also know from personal experience, that even if you are middle class or wealthy, you are subjected to racism if you are black. It is everywhere in our society.

The intense anger expressed toward these minority students makes me feel uneasy because it seems to be based on the notion that these students have already gotten something they were not qualified for: an ivy league education, and therefore they should be grateful and shut up.  These kids have the right to express themselves. They did not forfeit that by going to Yale.[/quote]

I have been critical of the students but I agree with you that they have very right to articulate their grievances (lame as some of them my be).
Now the protesters are not all minorities. In this group of 200 are many white students as well.
The anger directed at them is due to their vulgar, disrespectful conduct, and ridiculous demands that a faculty member be fired for expressing her opinion that the university should be tell students what Halloween costume to wear.  Dialog yes, this is a good teaching moment. But the idea of demanding the university be a “safe place” from any offensive remark makes them seem disconnected from reality and really at odds with the whole purpose of a university as a place for a free exchange of ideas. [/quote]

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