Word: racists
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...Diversity" is cool, and, best of all, diversity is safe--it doesn't bring up scary ideas like affirmative action, racist police, white privilege, economic inequality or even (at Harvard) a multicultural student center and ethnic studies. The kind of "diversity" the University encourages doesn't depend on small groups of people meeting and talking through real problems but rather on diversity brokers who urge the students to create brochure-friendly diversity...
...also cited the wealth and influence of Oprah Winfrey over millions of people as evidence that American society "allows a woman who grew up as a sharecropper's daughter in the most racist state in the country, to rise to a position of power over the people who would have been her `oppressors' a generation...
...never ceases to amaze me that Harvard students, pursuing their education at a place that claims to teach them to think critically, continue to rely on tired cliches and useless generalizations when referring to final clubs and final club members. The rants are familiar: Final clubs are "sexist," "elitist," "racist," "classist," "homophobic," etc. If we are to believe the tirades of Crimson writers and the submissions of certain well-opinionated students, final clubs are also responsible (along with investment bankers) for the moral corruption which plagues our University and our country. Have I covered all the bases? It really doesn...
...never ceases to amaze me that Harvard students, pursuing their education at a place that claims to teach them to think critically, continue to rely on tired clichs and useless generalizations when referring to final clubs and final club members. The rants are familiar: Final clubs are "sexist," "elitist," "racist," "classist," "homophobic", etc. If we are to believe the tirades of Crimson writers and the submissions of certain well-opinionated students, final clubs are also responsible (along with investment bankers) for the moral corruption which plagues our University and our country. Have I covered all the bases? It really doesn...
...that the ladies come to your clubs because, at three in the morning, you're the only game in town? How can Kahn consider others to lack the social skills common to the majority of our nation's college students, when the final clubs can be described as sexist, racist, elitist, classist and homophobic...