Word: offendable
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...hangers wish to emphasize their right to offend freely, to rub in the fact of their privilege to insult. For better or worse, our response cannot be to shut them up. The insult now stands, neither to be obviated nor obliterated by the flag's forcible removal. Hopefully, those responsible will someday realize what they truly communicate. Regardless, if we can bring most other students to understand the communication, we may be victimized by fewer reckless and damaging assertions of "pride" and "rights" in the future. Ben Hansen '92 Helena Hansen...
...second option would see the coalition partners convene their own tribunal, using Nuremberg as a model. As in 1945, the judges would be drafted from among the victor nations. Experts caution that this approach might look like "victors' vengeance" and might offend those Arabs who still lionize Saddam. Procedure could also become a sticking point since the coalition partners have different legal systems. A third scheme would have members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council convene trials, possibly under Islamic...
...STAFF is right--the Confederate flag and swastika are insensitive symbols that offend many students. The staff is right--the insensitive buffoons who hung them should take them down. The staff is right--Harvard should not force them...
...should not call for the voluntary removal of these symbols merely because they offend people. Pink triangles offend people. Black Power posters offend people. The American flag offends people. We would never call for any of these to be taken down...
...community dominated by racists, a Confederate flag or a swastika might not offend anyone. But they would still be offensive symbols. Both of them would still symbolize oppression, torture, discrimination and hatred. I would still call for their removal...