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I'm glad young people at least think about not staying silent to racism. However, do not forget, these students were yelling at a man for a letter his wife wro
by MagicPropmaker 8y ago
I'm glad young people at least think about not staying silent to racism.
However, do not forget, these students were yelling at a man for a letter his wife wrote. That is not defensible. It's also sexist--as if the man is the one who's really behind all the wife's thoughts and can't think for herself.
It's too bad you can't say silent to sexism.
- despera 8y agouhm, the Open Letter they signed is specifically about Erika Christakis. If her husband did try to get in the discussion and received the response he got, how that makes them sexist?
- MagicPropmaker 8y agoYou switched topics. The article cites the incident where a group of Yale students surrounded this Yale professor whom the article is about and started screaming at him.
- Yetanfou 8y agoIt is too bad that so many people are so quick to put an -ism label on anyone and anything which they do not agree with, without giving a moments thought to whether that label is really applicable and whether such overuse of the terms might end up doing more harm than (supposed) good. It is even worse that this attitude is so prevalent in institutes of higher education where an open mind to a different view is essential for the institute to achieve its intended purpose. Were this all confined to the realm of digital communications I'd suggest implementing rules around the misuse of -ism labels so that the negative effects of a misapplied label would backfire, something akin to a moderation system. As it stands now it is totally free of consequence to heap someone with a bucket of -isms in the hope that some of them will stick.
- MagicPropmaker 8y agoI was making the same point you are, though I was more subtle.