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Angered by a 25-minute wait to be seated, Susan Perng, a former co-chair of the group, authored a five-paragraph e-mail message recounting what had happened. She suggested a boycott...
...Asian-American community. For one thing, they've found themselves locked in a mortal struggle with a cartoon character. Then, last Tuesday, a group of Asian-law students were forced to wait for a table at Temple Bar. Now they're fighting mad and there's talk of a boycott. It looks like the bushido spirit is alive and well...
...Temple Bar incident, this little brouhaha has slightly more serious implications. After all, when angry law students start throwing around the terms "discrimination" and "boycott" they must appreciate that someone's livelihood is at stake. First--because the details are pretty damn funny--some background...
Temple Bar should take some solace in the fact that it is not the first area restaurant to be the target of reckless discrimination accusations. Several years ago the African-American community orchestrated a boycott of Grendel's Den after a waiter allegedly mistreated a black patron. The reality was that the patron was the victim of poor service, not racism, but this didn't discourage Harvard's ethnic organizations from rallying the troops and trying to put the place out of business...
...wonder, "What lies behind the itchy trigger finger of groups like APALSA? Why are Harvard students apparently so quick to cry racism?" The obvious answer is that they have been trained to see too much of the world in terms of race. Episodes such as this most recent near-boycott are the direct outgrowth of that mindset which contends that ethnic studies is an academic discipline on par with History. They are the direct outgrowth of that mindset which obsessively counts the number of women and minorities on Faculty. And, they are the direct outgrowth of that mindset, which against...