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...report also states that Harvard will conduct a community-wide survey to develop “an understanding of community patterns, needs, trends and priorities.” Moran’s call for deeper, more specific Harvard investment in the community echoed concerns raised throughout the formal public comments on the report. The 90-day comment period ended Monday. “The community benefits described in the DPIR are inadequate and vague,” wrote Allston resident Jeffrey Bryan. “[I]t is not understandable why they couldn’t have made at least...
What I found surprising, though, was a comment right below from the IvyGate summer editors: “Please watch your language on the comment boards. We love having comments and hearing your takes. While things like ‘self-serving’ are OK, hateful personal attacks are not, and we will delete such comments if we see them.” Yet “p’07’s” hateful personal attack remained, as did “haaaaaaaa’s” “She hath a lithp!!! She?...
...several blogs, has this to offer in the midst of a strident criticism of Caldwell: “She even lisped her way through a nationwide television appearance.” As one of many hurtful barbs in the piece, the attack is not noteworthy. But when commenters on the post slammed the author for using terms like “bimbo” and “stereotypical blond” as well as for the lisp comment, CLS responded at length to the former but completely ignored the latter. God forbid someone think him a sexist...
...anyone who reads The Crimson’s comments section knows that many users of the internet cloak their cowardly selves in anonymity, posting comments that show everyone how their parents, preachers, or school system failed to teach them courtesy and good values. That’s a given. But in the above instances, making fun of a person’s speech impediment seems to be a privileged category of hate. The IvyGate moderators declared that they would delete “hateful personal attacks,” and thus imply that the three comments I cited are something...
...fine. I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m complaining, because we all have our own crosses to bear. The stutterer’s is not necessarily more arduous because it is more visible. But what is surprising and unsettling, what does merit comment, is when educated people consider shots at a genetic speech impediment to be fair game while other slurs are not. The nimblest speaker couldn’t come up with a defense for that...