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This past week, AALARM has revealed its true colors and shattered the myths about its goals that it has spread across campus. AALARM tells us that they are being oppressed by a mindless P.C. mindset which brands any opposition as Politically Uncorrect. Yet when Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel condemned AALARM's recent anti-BGLAD postering campaign, an AALARM leader referred to Hillel as a "political, P.C. hack group." That defines it. If you disagree with AALARM, you are a "political, P.C. hack group...
...color of my skin that I have been "oppressed," they can go ahead and make such a knee-jerk assumption. All they have accomplished is the construction of yet another kind of stereotype--one that maintains that every member of an ethnic group has the same background and mindset...
There are ethnic studies organizations here--Asian-American studies, Latino studies, Afro-American studies--and I have some contact with each of them and have not encountered a McCarthyite-type mindset among them. Nor am I aware of any such unacceptable posture among women's groups here that favor women's studies...
Metropolitan thoughtfully treats the the (at best) self-conscious and (at worst) self-absorbed mindset of the preppy class. The characters are not the flat stereotypes who populate bad teen films, but realistic characters with a painful sense of the past and their responsibility to it. They discuss French social theorists and Jane Austen, changing social mores and downward socially mobility. They still fancy virginity as something virtuous, and date in groups...
Some of us may be addicted to applying for things. Maybe we think a department that will accept us, no questions asked, is no good. Honors concentrations play on this mindset by making it part of their appeal...