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Poor Bridget Kerrigan '91. All those insensitive people being so mean to her. All those insensitive people saying nasty things about slavery and racism and hate. All those insensitive people asking her to take her "beautiful" flag out of her Kirkland House window...
Last Wednesday, this regionally oppressed resident of northern Virginia lashed out at all those insensitive people. People like President Derek C. Bok, Kirkland Master Donald Pfister and me. Our crime? We had the gall to criticize Kerrigan's actions. We had the nerve to point out the flaws in her disingenuous arguments. We made her feel marginalized...
...resent that you people think you have the right to judge my personal conduct," Kerrigan said. "I think that's despicable...
...This is a free country. In a free country, Kerrigan can hang a Confederate flag out her window. And in a free country, the rest of us can criticize her reprehensible behavior. Bok and Pfister shouldn't claim to speak for the entire Harvard community, or the entire Kirkland community, but they can and should tell her what they think. They think she should take her flag down...
...applaud Ms. Kerrigan for celebrating the South while being surrounded in Yankee culture. But which South is she celebrating? Is it hers, or mine--or ours? Is it the South of Jefferson Davis, Nathan Bedford Forest, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee? Or is it the South of David Duke, Bull Connor and Jesse Helms...