- Professor Nicholas Christakis lives at Yale, where he presides over one of its undergraduate colleges. His wife Erika, a lecturer in early childhood education, shares that duty. They reside among students and are responsible for shaping residential life. And before Halloween, some students complained to them that Yale administrators were offering heavy-handed advice on what Halloween costumes to avoid.
Erika Christakis reflected on the frustrations of the students, drew on her scholarship and career experience, and composed an email inviting the community to think about the controversy through an intellectual lens that few if any had considered. Her message was a model of relevant, thoughtful, civil engagement.
For her trouble, a faction of students are now trying to get the couple removed from their residential positions, which is to say, censured and ousted from their home on campus. Hundreds of Yale students are attacking them, some with hateful insults, shouted epithets, and a campaign of public shaming. In doing so, they have shown an illiberal streak that flows from flaws in their well-intentioned ideology.
make sure to use some tissues to clean up your keyboards afterwards guys, i'm sure it's sticky the professor was barely right, and the student was an idiot. but now all you fucks are going to take the worst aspects and balloon them so that you can jerk yourselves raw about the "babied millenial college students" - if hubski's search actually worked for shit i could link the 10 times that kind of sentiment has been posted before. beyond that, what you don't understand is that this dumb trick was capitalizing on this, and you bought it hook line and sinker. The first email literally affirmed students unrestricted right to free speech and essentially said "Please try to have respect for each other." Then Christakis responded with a two-page long email about "M-muh freeze peach!" because fuck me right. Take a non-forceful request and blow it up and MAYBE it's because you're more vested in being and DEFENDING being an offensive asshole. UGH http://genius.com/8083489 here http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/01/25/nyt-columnist-says-son-yale-junior-held-at-gunpoint/ here you dumb fucks https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/02/students-accuse-yale-sae-fraternity-brothers-of-having-a-white-girls-only-policy-at-their-party/ or how about that white girls only party that's being investigated at this fucking university right now? but we gotta defend the censorship that isn't even happening right? can't keep that status quo if i don't get spit at on the way to the fucking cafeteria, right? those "gangsta costumed" frat fucks on the hill are who we need to focus on right? reflect my ass. hope you're happy holy shit am i the only black person on hubski (FUCKING LIKELY) or is everybody that fucking idiotic. or both. congrats on being so fucking thoughtful white people. fuck. this is why i have trust issues.
I think your response pretty well outlines the response of the students. Misplaced outrage flowing over into matters that the outrage isn't relevant to leading to crazily reactionary responses that only serve to make your point less likely to be understood, accepted, and engaged with.
This person has actually made a few points regarding the overall reaction to this (the article itself constitutes a reaction) and you're simply dismissing it based on tone. While Hubski encourages civil discussion, you're straight up ignoring his/her perspective. That's called tone policing, and your condescending reply is definitely not helping further discussion.
oh please, fuck off. racism to you is a "discussion that needs to be calmly discussed" racism for me is the shit i have to deal with daily. swap places with me and lets see how it goes. or not, because you probably couldn't fucking handle it. jesus. "my point." this place and the rest of the world are never going to change. must be fun being the default.
The behavior of these students is utterly shameful. God bless those professors, I know I would have not responded in such a restrained way to such ignorant and privileged students.
I think many people have been taught that they have to be offended to be taken seriously. Offense, then, becomes a form of social currency, especially for the upper crust leftist who may feel "left out" of the suffering of their forebears in some way. Remarkable that these are our future leaders. I suppose that's a good thing for anyone with some fortitude, as social skills are equally as important as intellectual and technical acumen in getting ahead in life. I've been impressed by the action of the students at Mizzou in the last week, but I was hugely disappointed to read a story this morning about them being abusive to a student reporter who was trying to document their activities. Shameful, especially because at least one professor was involved. It really knocked down the moral standing of the whole movement, IMO. Free speech is what facilitates movements of this sort, and free press is a part of the first amendment, too. I don't think college kids are any dumber now that in the past, but I think that social media has put big pressure on kids to act out a role in their lives that lives up to what they perceive expectation to be.
As students saw it, their pain ought to have been the decisive factor in determining the acceptability of the Halloween email. They thought their request for an apology ought to have been sufficient to secure one. Who taught them that it is righteous to pillory faculty for failing to validate their feelings, as if disagreement is tantamount to disrespect? Their mindset is anti-diversity, anti-pluralism, and anti-tolerance, a seeming data-point in favor of April Kelly-Woessner’s provocative argument that “young people today are less politically tolerant than their parents’ generation.”