Posted on 02/13/2007 6:13:41 AM PST by ellen_rometsch
Every morning, I sit down with a delicious Dewick breakfast, coffee and the Daily. As of late, every morning, I make it to the Viewpoints page and read a heart-warming article about tolerance, diversity and community. Then every morning, I roll my eyes, shut the Daily and reach for a newspaper from the real world. This morning, after reading that not enough white people came to the town meeting and that intro-level English classes should be turned into race relations classes, I have had enough.
As a senior, I have sat through four years of listening to people opine over "race relations" at this school. As a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed freshman, I even used to go to these community meetings or events where President Bacow would show up in our dorm in loafers and a sweater to have a fireside chat about "realizing the potentiality of integrational equalities" and the like. At one of these chats, I came up with an idea for how to make the school more racially integrated. Thinking my idea was fairly straight-forward and rather brilliant, I suggested getting rid of race houses. I don't think people around here would feel so thrilled about a white, male Protestant house on Professor's Row, so maybe some people feel that way about an African-American house. Maybe not. But no matter how you feel on the subject, surely race housing is an obstacle to this desired enhanced integration? My idea was not so popular, and after many icy stares, I excused myself.
(Excerpt) Read more at media.www.tuftsdaily.com ...
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"You are assuming that what they do is indeed for the sake of "diversity"."
I'm assuming nothing. I work at a very large company. I know the diversity thing very well.
I just found it amusing that someone that hopes to take adavantage of a foreign language is bashing diversity.
They concept of being evil and an angry fool are not incompatible.
But of course you had to MEAN something by it... heaven forbid the simplest answer (that you thought that a spanish major was railing against diversity) is the correct answer. I didn't think you were railing on her - just noting the irony. lol
....Tufts might be a bastion of liberalism, but it's also home to one of the funniest and most irreverant student-run conservative magazines in the country.
"I didn't think you were railing on her - just noting the irony."
True, I have sympathy for the poor young gal. She's got a tough road ahead of her. I'm impressed that she has the backbone to speak out. I hope she turns out well.
When I filled out the 2000 Census, I checked the "Other" box and wrote in AMERICAN.
>>You have your own problems with a different ethnic group, one that does not want to be accepted or assimilated, but instead espouses become Islam or else...<<
Truth be told!
No, she's not railing against diversity, she's railing against the post modernist metanarrative that the left describes as diversity. She's railing against the reverse discrimination and the anti-capitalism and anti-white male ideology of the political left.
That was a great piece. Wouldn't it be a hoot to see this billboard in Boston?
Nam Vet
Unless some people are willing to stand up for their beliefs without sole regard to how it will effect them economically the right will never prevail or even have its voice heard. I applaud her for voicing her informed opinion without thinking about how it might have consequence to her being able to make a buck.
Well said! And I agree.
When presented with an application (for anything) that inquires as to my race, I reply "HUMAN - homo sapiens". Simply because that is my race. Now, if they want my ethnicity, I reply "Caucausian-American".
Well, it sounded like caver was being slightly defensive on affirmative action. That's all.
I really do see how you can reach that conclusion based upon how it was written. But I had the same thought as Caver so I got it immediately.
It's a lot easier to tell off the boss when you're about to quit your job...
My ex-neighbor in Calif who was an FBI agent said it would be cheaper to just throw ammo over the fence as they were already fully armed. (1978)
"Well, it sounded like caver was being slightly defensive on affirmative action. That's all."
Sorry for the misunderstanding. You won't hear me defending affirmative action. I just got a chuckle out of the story. Most things I read anymore make me mad, so a chuckle is good.
caver, are you a spelunker?
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