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...find it extremely ironic that the very day after The Crimson printed Evan Cucci's piece, "Forsenic Etiquette," on the futility of personal insult in the course of a debate, David Lat has the audacity to write "Rebels Without a Cause," at best a "critique" of the protests that occurred during Junior Parent's Weekend...
...sheer abrasiveness is indicative of the depths to which some students have plummeted, all in the name of academic discourse. No matter how pointless Mr. Lat found these protests, his branding them as "stupid" or laughable is truly uncalled for and serves no real purpose...
Quoting Camille Paglia may be appropriate in such a discourse as his; however, his choice of quotes--"Puhleez!"--is dubious. Rather then telling these students to "shut up," perhaps Mr. Lat should first listen to what they are saying...
Looking at past editorials--first the "Liberal White Female," a superficial and degrading insight on feminism, then the attack on AFRAM, replete with homophobic epithets, and finally "Rabels Without a Cause," a cliched response to the protest last weekend--one can see that Mr. Lat relies too heavily on insulting other points of view, without addressing the relevant facts...
...Lat thinks that what the minority student leaders need to here is, "Sit down, you're rocking the boat...