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...advanced as an attempt to conserve, defend, or uphold. To paraphrase Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the proper answer to posters you do not like is not fewer posters, it is more. Their article belies a further set of illiberal and unqualified assumptions in its blithe reduction of HRL??s campaign to an attack on rape victims. As an aside, it bears noting that the proportion of abortions attributed to rape and incest in the U.S. hovers between one and two percent, depending on the study. But more importantly, their claim elides the primary concern of HRL?...
...Abortion rights are a divisive and emotionally-charged issue. But HRL??s posters, which charging rape victims who have had abortions with murder, go beyond the pale of civilized debate. By stating that these women sentence their fetuses to “the death penalty,” HRL displays a total disregard for the emotional state of rape victims—both those who have had abortions and those who have not—on Harvard’s campus. Many rape victims, even years after their ordeal, experience Rape Trauma Syndrome (RTS), which can cause them...
...Harvard is a campus that prides itself on tolerance of others, regardless of their backgrounds, personal beliefs, and moral decisions. Unfortunately, HRL??s posters violate this tolerance by attacking rape victims on a very personal level, prioritizing an ethical stand over the health of fellow students. These assaults, moreover, are not beneficial to the campus discourse. Certainly, HRL??s posters incite debate. But because they do so at the expense of rape victims, they turn what ought to be a healthy, educational discussion into a vicious polemic of name-calling, in which the attacked individuals likely...
...downfall of much campus activism, and what makes it so infuriating and alienating to many, is that rather than appealing to rationality and logic, it appeals to emotions and volatility. A perfect example of this was HRL??s series of “Elena” posters last year. These posters began with a fertilized egg which proudly proclaimed to be Elena, excited to be “alive” and “unique;” but they did not provide real information to the readers other than pointing out that the zygote had chromosomes?...
...students’ minds about such a polarizing issue with one simple poster. Nonetheless, the flurry of campus discussions and debates following each new poster or protest proves just how successful such tactics can be in disseminating a group’s message. I often joke that I measure HRL??s success in terms of how many of and how quickly our posters have been torn down. If I see our posters still hanging, then most likely they have not made the impact we had hoped for. That being said, the tactic is not an end but merely...