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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer the original question: Has Yale Become a PC Joke?

Yes. Yes it has. Along with many other college campuses. And they have been for a long time.[/quote]No, it hasn't.  You're taking the rantings of a few people and defining Yale (a university that has been around for a few centuries) as a joke.

To answer the original question.  No.  No it hasn't.[/quote]

many students there I am sure are appalled at the behaviour of the small group of students but afraid to speak out. 
Much will depend on how the administration responds to the students’ demands. [/quote]Appalled and afraid to speak out does not define a school as a joke.  There are ridiculous comments made by a couple of political candidates running for president.  Their (what I consider crazy) comments do not define America as a joke.  They are the rantings of a couple of people.

Also, there are a few demands that I do not deem ridiculous.  I find nothing wrong with changing the name of a dorm named for a man who was a spokesman for the slave plantation system.  I'm sure that are Jewish students would have a problem with a university building named Hermann Goring Hall.  Or our white students who might have a problem with a dorm named Joseph McCarthy Hall (but maybe not as some institutions).[/quote]

Not disputed, but even here I have seen at least credible arguments that go both ways and this is a fair topic for debate and possible action to change the name.   Indeed, the President of the University raised it in October, welcomed a school dialogue this year, and vowed to have a decision made this year - before this year's protests or demands were made.   One of the key problems with the new activism is that it is a tactic in search of a clearly defined cause with a clearly defined solution, and unable to really rally sufficient support for one clearly defined cause it - much  like Occupy Wall Street - seeks to rally everyone with any gripe that arguably fits under a board rubric of oppression.  And if there is insufficient support, there is no hesitation to use inflammatory tactics to rally it.  So, for instance, supporters of protestors often print that the head of one residential college condoned and gave license to students to wear black face or other highly offensive outfits.  This simply is not true. It is an absolute distortion of a carefully worded email that really questioned the university's role in policing Halloween costumes and raised interesting other questions in a calm, thoughtful piece.  That may have made people feel otherwise, but at some point the reasonableness of such feelings themselves come into question.  Or I should say, some people feel at some point the reasonableness of feelings come into question when deciding on actions/policy.  Other people feel the reasonableness of feelings can never be questioned -- they are goals to be protected in and of themselves.  And that, in a nutshell, is part of what is dividing the campus.  [/quote]

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