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...illustrate, we'll take the last group--just for the sake of argument, you understand. If I wanted to set about offending Harvard Asians (not that anyone would, mind you), I might draw a comic strip that contained an Asian-American character who happened to go to Harvard. We'll call him, er, "Mr. Wu." And then I might refuse to make this "Mr. Wu" perfect--I'd give him a flaw or two, like pronounced flatulence or a fondness for reading Foucault and Derrida in his spare time...
...feature, by Crimson staff writer Justin G. Fong '03, protested perceived self-segregation by Asian-American students at Harvard...
...participants in yesterday's "March for Responsible Journalism and Respect" said that the piece went too far, casting Asian-American students in stereotypical roles. Many protesters also said the piece reflected insensitivity on the part of The Crimson toward minorities on campus...
While most of the protestors were Asian-American students, a significant minority of white and black students took part as well...
Granted, Fong makes some egregious faux pas in his open letter, but these missteps do not justify many Asian-American students' simplistic accusations that Fong has set Harvard Asian-American students back 10 years. Such attacks stem from a complete failure to appreciate his point that we must strive to live by the truth of our substance rather than blundering down the path of superficiality and falsehood by ignoring the basic human responsibility to be true to oneself...