PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Anthony on June 02, 2017, 09:56:22 AM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Looking out over a sea of people in Harvard Yard last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive and one of Harvard’s most famous dropouts, told this year’s graduating class that it was living in an unstable time, when the defining struggle was “against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism.”
Two days earlier, another end-of-year ceremony had taken place, just a short walk away on a field outside the law school library. It was Harvard’s first commencement for black graduate students, and many of the speakers talked about a different, more personal kind of struggle, the struggle to be black at Harvard.
“We have endured the constant questioning of our legitimacy and our capacity, and yet here we are,” Duwain Pinder, a master’s degree candidate in business and public policy, told the cheering crowd of several hundred people in a keynote speech.
From events once cobbled together on shoestring budgets and hidden in back rooms, alternative commencements like the one held at Harvard have become more mainstream, more openly embraced by universities and more common than ever before.
Earlier this spring, tiny Emory and Henry College in Virginia held its first “Inclusion and Diversity Year-End Ceremonies.” The University of Delaware joined a growing list of colleges with “Lavender” graduations for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. At Columbia, students who were the first in their families to graduate from college attended the inaugural “First-Generation Graduation,” with inspirational speeches, a procession and the awarding of torch pins.
Some of the ceremonies have also taken on a sharper edge, with speakers adding an activist overlay to the more traditional sentiments about proud families and bright futures.
So I thought "segregation" was bad? It seems to be the trend now. I guess voluntary segregation is OK???
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/black-commencement-harvard.html?_r=0
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Maybe they should have separate water fountains too. And while we're at it, separate dining halls...
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Universities are already letting students segregate themselves at some dorms...
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28906/
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/11/taxpayer-funded-university-creates-segregated-dorm-for-black-people/
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Who KNEW racism was so cool, until blacks engaged in it....
The hypocrisy of the left is never more obvious than when it comes to the hypocrisy of blacks and how the politicians, academia and media pretend their racism doesn't exist.
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I just don't get it. In the 70's we had "bussing". Black kids from other areas were bussed into our school. They ate together, they rode to and from school together. The only contact I had with them was through sports, where we were all equals, and we were quick friends. I guess it was like being in combat. We looked out for each other. We were teammates. However, once off the playing field that typically changed. Now we see voluntary segregation promoted institutionally. I am really confused!
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The difference is old style segregation was enforced on students by the community. If a group of students decides they want their own thing, the end result is certainly the same but the means entirely different. I consider it quite unfortunate. Were a group of my students so disaffected that they wanted a separate commencement I think I'd take a really hard look at my institution to discover what had made them disaffected in the first place, and implement some sort of remedy, or at least try to do so.
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Maybe they should have separate water fountains too. And while we're at it, separate dining halls...
The inevitable end of leftist identity politics; things have come full circle. I'm no Trudeau fan, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
It is a grainy image, but the best available. The bottom row of panels reads:
“I don’t get it, Campbell. The Black students now have separate dorms, fraternities, cafeteria tables, student center, studies program and graduation. After 25 years of intensive, progressive action in pursuit of racial justice at this college, we’ve managed to produce a fully segregated campus.
*sigh* What a legacy I’ve created. And to think I marched with Dr. King in Selma.”
“So what is it now?”
“Um…the kids want their own water fountains.” (http://bit.ly/2qejLIv)
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The difference is old style segregation was enforced on students by the community. If a group of students decides they want their own thing, the end result is certainly the same but the means entirely different. I consider it quite unfortunate. Were a group of my students so disaffected that they wanted a separate commencement I think I'd take a really hard look at my institution to discover what had made them disaffected in the first place, and implement some sort of remedy, or at least try to do so.
Are they really disaffected, or are they jumping on the "victim" bandwagon?
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It's all about attention and ego.
I heard a psychiatrist on late night radio say, recently, that all this fake transgender confusion is little more than snowflakes needy for attention and finding it by claiming to be confused.
That makes A Lot of sense.
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It's about power, control and manipulation by using attention and ego.