Students of color are constantly under attack at Ivy League campuses. I could tell you stories for days. In a word, it's oppressive.
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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,
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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.
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@aurabogado@ErikaChristakis You need to grow up. Barring that, you should be bubble wrapped.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aurabogado@CalebHowe@ErikaChristakis@EWErickson I don't understand what I'm supposed to be outraged at. Can someone explain? - 1 more reply
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