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...second half of the staff opinion, the poster did exactly what the staff editorial above does: It reproduced harmful (much worse than "insensitive") epithets in order to strike them down...
...problem with the poster is that it required too much prior knowledge. To the poster's designer and Peninsula staffers, it was obvious that the poster's allusion to ugly stereotypes of Blacks (promoted by white heroes of the sexual revolution like the Jack Kerouac and the Paul Tillich) was an attempt to discredit those who have promulgated them. To others, it wasn't obvious, and that's Peninsula replaced the posters...
Call the terms "hate speech" if you want, but the poster was a good-faith effort to use others' hate speech against them...
...yeah? Just ask many members of the Harvard community what they thought about the Harvard Law Review's annual parody of Peninsula's recent poster advertisement...
SIMILARLY, Peninsula's outrageous poster publicizing a talk entitled "Spade Kicks: a Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of sexual Liberation" did nothing to promote dialogue, and only stirred intergroup disputes. The racial slurs and allusions to negative stereotypes of Black sexuality--including the poster's image of a Black woman performing a strip before a white audience--are hurtful and insensitive...