[1496] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: response to "Ghetto Party" incident (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (revprez@MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 8 19:52:32 2003
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:47:58 -0400
From: revprez@MIT.EDU
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <1065642891.14128.12.camel@starbase.mit.edu>
Quoting "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>:
> Pius and Jacob have given a well-thought response, and they should be
> commended for taking a stand on this party incident.
I'd say its heart-felt, but not well thought out. The email plagarizes
decades of feel good one liners from damn near every left-leaning talk or
article on race in the past fifteen years.
And it was long.
> It may seem rare
> that a case of racism on campus is brought to everyone's attention, but
> there are more subtle incidents that go unnoticed by most people quite
> often;
If racism is so subtle, should the response be equally so?
> it is harder but just as important to counter such subtle, even
> unintentional, insults so that everyone may feel respected and welcome.
Why? Lots of people of all colors like race jokes, lots of people on all
rungs of the income and wealth ladder love class jokes. Seems to me that the
mere mention of race unceremoniously doesn't imply a racist context or impugn
the character of those who speak less judiciously than others.
Rev Prez
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