Yippee!!!
A university administrator speaks up for real Americans, and sticks a finger in the eye of PC Liberals!!!
"The debate over Halloween costumes began late last month when [Yale] university’s Intercultural Affairs Committee sent an email to the student body asking students to avoid wearing “culturally unaware and insensitive” costumes that could offend minority students. It specifically advised them to steer clear of outfits that included elements like feathered headdresses, turbans or blackface.
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Students in front of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University.CreditChristopher Capozziello for The New York Times
In response, Erika Christakis, a faculty member and an administrator at a student residence, wrote an email to students living in her residence hall on behalf of those she described as “frustrated” by the official advice on Halloween costumes. Students should be able to wear whatever they want, she wrote, even if they end up offending people.
“American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”
Ms. Christakis’s email touched on a long-running debate over the balance between upholding free speech and protecting students from hurt feelings or personal offense."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/n...tive-halloween-costumes-free-speech.html?_r=0
So....where do you stand???
"I'm offended"
or
"I'm an American"
A university administrator speaks up for real Americans, and sticks a finger in the eye of PC Liberals!!!
"The debate over Halloween costumes began late last month when [Yale] university’s Intercultural Affairs Committee sent an email to the student body asking students to avoid wearing “culturally unaware and insensitive” costumes that could offend minority students. It specifically advised them to steer clear of outfits that included elements like feathered headdresses, turbans or blackface.
Photo
Students in front of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University.CreditChristopher Capozziello for The New York Times
In response, Erika Christakis, a faculty member and an administrator at a student residence, wrote an email to students living in her residence hall on behalf of those she described as “frustrated” by the official advice on Halloween costumes. Students should be able to wear whatever they want, she wrote, even if they end up offending people.
“American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.”
Ms. Christakis’s email touched on a long-running debate over the balance between upholding free speech and protecting students from hurt feelings or personal offense."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/n...tive-halloween-costumes-free-speech.html?_r=0
So....where do you stand???
"I'm offended"
or
"I'm an American"
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