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[700+] Yale Students [and faculty] Demand Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email
thefire.org ^ | November 6, 2015 | Haley Hudler

Posted on 11/08/2015 6:17:23 PM PST by grundle

Edited on 11/08/2015 6:43:10 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Tensions at Yale University hit a boiling point yesterday after an email about Halloween costumes created a week-long controversy on campus.

Students called for the resignation of Associate Master of Silliman College Erika Christakis after she responded to an email from the school’s Intercultural Affairs Council asking students to be thoughtful about the cultural implications of their Halloween costumes. According to The Washington Post, students are also calling for the resignation of her husband, Master of Silliman College, Nicholas Christakis, who defended her statement.


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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: education; halloween; jerelynluther; yale; zerotolerance
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To: grundle

Oh for crying out loud! The left has turned and is continuing to turn this nation into a pile of sh**. Who the hell gets offended over freaking costumes anyways? Apparently the pot smoking, wussy leftists that populate our supposed institutions of higher learning. We are so screwed as a nation.


21 posted on 11/08/2015 6:38:26 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: TigerClaws
Who trained our youth to be this overly sensitive, weak minded, and intolerant?

It was the sensitivity training they got in their public school education - thanks to the amoral critical thinking skills taught over the last couple of decades.

It is group therapy which inculcates amorality and numerous other unpleasantries.

We are witnessing its results.

22 posted on 11/08/2015 6:39:16 PM PST by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: grundle

Hmmmm....Can you say hostile work environment? I hope Nicholas Christakis can sue both Yale and every person who has signed this petition.


23 posted on 11/08/2015 6:40:53 PM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: grundle

As much as I luv to see Libs eat their own (and I’m sure Christakis and her husband are world class libs), this is a really dangerous trend. Does not sound like the Yale President has the backbone to put a stop it.

Those faculty who signed this petition better be careful: they could easily be next.


24 posted on 11/08/2015 6:40:53 PM PST by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: grundle

By 1935 (or so) Stalin had ‘purged’ EVERY SINGLE ORIGINAL BOLSHEVIK, the people that had brought the Communists to power. Without a doubt, the LAST THING those die-hard Bolsheviks thought was they would be the ones taking one-way trips to Siberia...but it was so.

So it’s difficult for me to get all teared-up when the monster of PC that these professors unleashed on this country (and other Western countries) is now coming after them, looking for blood.


25 posted on 11/08/2015 6:41:41 PM PST by BobL ( (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: grundle

I thought Halloween was for the little kids, not college students.

I also saw a colleged age kid dressed as Batman in his customized dune buggy Batmobile driving up and down public thoroughfares last week - pointed ears up and cape flying in the wind. Must have been living his fantasy. Hope he gets it out of his system by the time he has to find a real job and support himself without mom and dad’s help.


26 posted on 11/08/2015 6:46:36 PM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s Political Correctness doing what it was designed to do.


27 posted on 11/08/2015 6:52:37 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: achilles2000
"McCarthyism" was a smear. There was no "McCarthyism" as the MSM and libs claim.

You, sir, are quite correct.

28 posted on 11/08/2015 6:54:17 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: marron

If a Yale degree means you are this kind of lunkhead, why on earth would anyone hire you for anything?


On the contrary: that girl would be quite the catch for the Federal bureaucracy. Picture her adult-self screaming profanities at some small business owner she just bankrupted—after he meekly suggests the regulations she authored are “arbitrary and unfair”.


29 posted on 11/08/2015 6:54:29 PM PST by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: grundle

I shelved my plan to go trick or treating at Yale dressed as a vagina after it became obvious there were a lot of pricks there trying to f**k me.


30 posted on 11/08/2015 6:54:36 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: grundle

“Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious… a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive? American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”

The Thought Nazis made her point far better than she did.

Pray America wakes


31 posted on 11/08/2015 6:57:28 PM PST by bray (If Obama had a son he would be a cop killer.)
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To: BobL

It was also a one way trip to the basement of a Moscow prison.


32 posted on 11/08/2015 7:04:41 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: marron
If a Yale degree means you are this kind of lunkhead, why on earth would anyone hire you for anything?

Ideally suited for a nice DemoRat war, conscription and repeated bayonet charges up Pork Chop Hill.

33 posted on 11/08/2015 7:05:11 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: grundle

F.I.R.E. does good work. I wondered what side they fell on with this Yale brewhaha... and sure enough, they are on the right side, as usual.


34 posted on 11/08/2015 7:06:00 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Grampa Dave

A possible response to the sensitive (?):

Dear Offended Students,

Yale received approximately 27000 applications for admission to the Class of 2017. 2000 applicants were admitted. There are 25000 rejected applicants ready to take your pathetic places in this Ivy League University. We really will not miss you.

There are 2473 other 4 year colleges in the United States and chances are good that you can find one suitable to your sensitive feeling. Feel free to apply to any of them or not. We the management and faculty at Yale really do not have any empathy for you sensitivities. We are here to educate you.

We do suggest that you enlist in the US Army or Marine Corp so that you can toughen you easily offended sensitivities with some real world experience before resuming your college career. Or go back to your Mother and have her sooth your offended feeling because your Drill Sergeant will not.

The choice is yours. You wanted to come here for your higher education. We have no time for spoiled brats and your temper tantrums.

Good luck.


35 posted on 11/08/2015 7:16:32 PM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: cherry

I had no idea losing to State would cause them to go bonkers! Bless their little pea picking hearts. GO DAWGS!


36 posted on 11/08/2015 7:18:50 PM PST by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: Slyfox

Notice the intellectual dishonesty from the left.

They complain about ‘oppressed peoples’ and other moral judgment language, yet deny God.

If it’s all about power and force, what’s the basis of their criticism? It’s just a manipulative power grab under the guise of a moral judgment.


37 posted on 11/08/2015 7:19:25 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: choctaw man

Somebody got their feelers hurt so they have demanded somebody resign. Life in America, 2015.


It depends on the feelings. It has to be the RIGHT feelings.

For example, if you are an 8 year old Swedish girl and you get gang-raped by 10 “refugees”, your feelings don’t amount to a hill of beans.

But if you are an illegal mexican immigrant, going to a university at tax payer expense, and someone wears a sombrero as part of a halloween costume, OMG! OMG! OMG! call out the friggin Political Police and start executing people to protect those “feelings”!!!


38 posted on 11/08/2015 7:21:18 PM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: TigerClaws

The leftists prefer to have their people thinking through their feelings, which can have negative consequences, like being unable to think rationally when it would really come in handy.


39 posted on 11/08/2015 7:24:59 PM PST by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: grundle

So lefties took over the campus, and instituted all kinds of new orthodoxies, such as micro-aggressions, rape culture, LBGTQWXYZ

And now the little red guards they spawned are turning on them.

So sad.


40 posted on 11/08/2015 7:27:01 PM PST by PGR88
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