Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)
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On 05/09/07 10:40, Amy Templeton wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/08/07 23:17, Amy Templeton wrote:
>>> Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
>>>> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:03:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>>> On 05/08/07 21:55, Amy Templeton wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> It's a private college, and have no desire to make this
>>>>>> anywhere near that insane, but thank you nonetheless. I'm
>>>>>> basically wishfully hoping for a quiet solution.
>>>>> If it's liberal, and it probably is, you could claim
>>>>> Discrimination. All the more so since you're female.
>>> I appreciate the suggestion, but I'd rather not pull status on this
>>> one, you know? That is a card to be saved up and used in an
>>> emergency to which it has direct bearing, or else it loses all
>>> meaning and becomes trite. Thanks, though.
>
>> There are those of us who believe that claims of discrimination
>> became trite many years ago.
>
> I'm inclined to disagree; it is more subtle now, but it still
> exists. Do some reading on the concepts of privilege and
> intersectionality and if you don't buy it, we can talk more then
> (or if you do, either way).
My point is that there have been so many spurious claims (from
either anger/revenge or hypersensitivity) that there is automatic
"negative" suspicion among fair-minded men who ordinarily would be
"on your side".
Similarly, the Duke Non-Rape Case *will* severely harm real rape
victims, by lowering a serious cloud of doubt/mistrust above them.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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