Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)
On Wed, 09 May 2007 18:10:31 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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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
And some instigated by believers in False Memory Syndrome.
> "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
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