As a Yale alum, I'm disgusted by what @ErikaChristakis has done. If you don't know what I'm referring to, keep reading.
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At time,
@ErikaChristakis was especially ridiculous, defending, for example, the rights of white children who want to be Mulan on Halloween! -
And,
@ErikaChristakis explained that she fetishizes and appropriates Bangladeshi culture, adding "But I really, really like them too." Yup. -
Finally,
@ErikaChristakis argues young people should be obnoxious/racist. Because America! Ugh. I'm so disgusted by this. -
So you don't think I'm making anything up, here's
@ErikaChristakis's email to Yale students. Read it yourself: http://pastebin.com/egSQGfgK -
You owe us an apology,
@ErikaChristakis. Your thinking, put into words and put into action, is dangerous for students of color at Yale. -
In 2010 I got an invite to attend a Colonizers and the Colonized party at Yale,
@ErikaChristakis. It was suggested I dress "like a slave." -
Not to be confused with all the other racism I had to deal with all the time at Yale,
@ErikaChristakis. The kind of racism you're defending. -
And to think you're an educator,
@ErikaChristakis! You've bent over backwards to excuse, defend and encourage racism. Shame on you. -
1) Making what happened/is happening at Yale a free speech issue is derailing the real topic at hand: racism.
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2) Erika Christakis could've protected free speech in the original campus email asking students not to be racist on Halloween. She didn't.
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3) Free speech is usually a reflexive term used to defend racism and misogyny—not all speech.
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4) The same students standing behind the free speech banner online at the Overheard FB page are censoring the students they disagree with.
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5) Some of the free speech people are using the term to defend genocidal statements, like "wiped out an Indian village."
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6) The Christakis have issued an email to Sillimanders; part of it reads "we understand that it was hurtful to you, and we are truly sorry."
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7) The email still stresses free speech. Even though that's not what this is about.
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8) Lots people deserve apologies here. Sincere ones—that don't bury the very real issue of racism into a pretend debate about free speech.
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Along with everyone else, I just got an email from President Salovey. Sigh. Deep, deep sigh.
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Your free speech is sometimes hate speech. Hence the reluctance to defend it.
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The unbearable whiteness of white Yale alumni writing all the white explainers about white racism there. They still don't get it. Damn.
End of conversation
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@aurabogado Great time for the "razor blades in candy is a myth" myth,@ErikaChristakis. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/30/police-razor-blade-found-halloween-candy-ohio/74858078/ …pic.twitter.com/0dTP4XsPOk
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