Word: racists
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Still others avoid The Crimson because of the perception often perpetuated in minority communities of the paper as institutionally racist. While I readily admit that The Crimson has on numerous occasions in recent years done a poor job of accurately covering and representing minority communities, these incidents—which in some respects can happen with any area of coverage—have led to direct problems with minority groups who use such instances to level charges of racism more broadly than is justified...
...arguments were dismissed as racist,” said Lowell House resident Catherine E. McCaw...
Chanting “1-2-3-4, throw apartheid out the door; 2-4-6-8, don’t support the racist state,” thousands of demonstrators carried candles and kerosene-soaked torches as they marched from Harvard Yard to the Quad and along the Charles River...
...Racist speech is deplorable. But it is dangerous to crack down on any speech—no matter how unpalatable—and speech codes are certainly not the answer. The biggest problem with speech codes is the potential for abuse. Students and administrators can treacherously interpret speech-code guidelines to attack others who have simply been insensitive or sophomoric, not threatening or racist. Students, afraid of repercussions, would also be discouraged from speaking their minds on a range of important diversity issues with even the loosest of rules in place. To its credit, the Law School...
Mansfield attributes the rise in Harvard’s grades to a fall in expectations, brought on by the influx of less academically qualified black students in the 1970s. His argument is that white professors, afraid that they would be seen as racist, gave black students high grades they didn’t deserve...