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Posted by Yum: #1 · reply · track
November 1, 2007 at 10:51 AM
Bill Gates, so sexy.
Posted by Just wondering...: #2 · reply · track
November 1, 2007 at 11:09 AM
...how come people on campus aren't as pissed about the swastika as they were about the noose?
Posted by martians go home: #3 · reply · track
November 1, 2007 at 11:26 AM
it's been what, a month since the noose incident, and we haven't heard a word about what they found on the tapes. What are they covering up?
Posted by Erf: #4 (in reply to #2) · reply · track
November 1, 2007 at 2:05 PM
Reasoning 1:

A swastika refers to an oppressive anti-Semitic regime that killed.

A noose is a direct threat to kill, presenting the instrument of murder.

Reasoning 2:

Jews in New York as a whole have less reason to feel oppressed than do blacks.
Posted by also: #5 (in reply to #2) · reply · track
November 1, 2007 at 2:40 PM
I think a big part of it is that this type of thing is losing its novelty. However sad this is: we're getting used to bigotry on our campus.
Posted by it's not: #6 (in reply to #5) · reply · track
November 1, 2007 at 2:58 PM
that we're getting used to bigotry, I think it's that most of us realize bigotry isn't actually as big a problem on this campus as many student groups would have you believe. these isolated events are more cries for help or to inflame ethnic sentiments on campus, and the better we ignore them the more we demonstrate to the perpetrators such actions have no weight with the student community. it's like terrorism in that we should try to combat it, but living in fear our outrage is not the way to do it, nor would we assume everyone around us is a terrorist. there just aren't that many bigots on campus, so we can't assume there's some huge, hidden group of them.
Posted by Jesus and a Hampster: #7 (in reply to #4) · reply · track
November 2, 2007 at 11:48 AM
Not as oppressed as those fine dressed sexy motha-uckers from Bloody Wall of Gore.
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