Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, Jorrilyn Eddings, who was a Nieman in 1985, will travel from South Africa on behalf of the Freedom Forum, a human rights group, to sit in on the trial...
Wirzbicki writes of the "coming out" dinner that he feels like he should be offended, "but [such events] are so pathetic that I am not." Well, I am. As a minority on this campus I find it both disrespectful and offensive that a group which has often rejected claims of discrimination by minorities, now seems to be arguing the same thing...
Being minority means something on this campus, and it means something more than a simple semantic reading would imply. "Minority" connotes a group that has been historically oppressed and repressed, a group whose voice has been either dismissed or ignored by white normative America...
Wirzbicki acknowledges that conservatives are underrepresented in the Faculty and tacitly admits that they're usually maligned by the campus press. It might be expected that a group burdened by such bias would fight for redress and vie for special privilege. Some people do expect that, and they perceive a grab for personal accommodation when conservatives poke fun at the institution of victimhood or satirize Harvard's inequitable (on the low side) distribution of minority privilege to the conservative minority here...
However, conservatives don't denounce the hypocrisy of minority status because they want it for themselves. They want a campus where people realize that they're not part of an oppressed group...