Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Members of the Harvard community should constantly remind Kerrigan and McCormack that their Confederate flag stands for much more than Southern pride. They should tell Townsend that there are better ways to react to a Confederate flag than to offend members of a fellow minority group. The Black Students Association and Hillel did just that, issuing a joint statement condemning the symbols and deftly avoiding an unnecessary Black-Jewish confrontation over the issue...
Harvard students have the right to offend each other. It's up to the rest of us to convince 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...