{"id":441,"date":"2007-02-12T13:42:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T19:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/02\/12\/dworkin-meets-cartman\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T19:44:07","slug":"dworkin-meets-cartman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Dworkin Meets Cartman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Macalester College tries to square its relentlessly liberal image with its students’ growing sanctimony fatigue after some Mac students were found throwing a party with racist overtones<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Macalester is just the latest in a string of colleges nationwide to investigate student parties and incidents this year that have involved racial overtones.<\/p>\n

Officials are checking to see exactly what happened at the party, and Macalester will have a campuswide discussion on issues of stereotyping on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“We hope to take the teachable moment and engage our campus community a little bit more deeply,” said Jim Hoppe, Macalesters associate dean of students. “We hope we can start a deeper dialogue on … why these types of activities hurt people and why they get the kind of response they do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty un-PC; I’ve always figured tact and manners were enough in this world.\u00a0 While the professionally-indignant crowd has done this nation – especially this nation’s colleges and universities – immense damage in the past 25 years, I’ve never seen much humor in intentionally picking at other peoples’ emotional scabs.\u00a0 And so even I cocked an eyebrow at what the kid involved were alleged to have done – some wore “costumes depicting negative stereotypes of race, religion and gender”, according to Mac’s president.<\/p>\n

Of course, Macalester does more than cock its eyebrows at this sort of thing:<\/p>\n

“Several of the attendees allegedly wore costumes depicting negative stereotypes of race, religion and gender,” [Mac prez Brian Rosenberg] wrote. “It is important to understand that the college condemns and will not tolerate activities of this type. It is deeply disappointing that Macalester students would be so insensitive and demonstrate such a lack of understanding of the colleges values and mission.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this school year, two other very selective colleges — Trinity College in Connecticut and Whitman College in Washington state — had parties where students showed up in racially offensive costumes or blackface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“PC for thee, but not for me”, apparently.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have to wonder – if a school adopts a relentlessly PC attitude about society’s seemier historical aspects, and\u00a0drives all\u00a0non-“PC” thought\u00a0\u00a0underground\u00a0(as, indeed, Mac has – they\u00a0have a notable-repressive speech code),\u00a0does it have to find some <\/em>way to get out?<\/p>\n

Because maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see so much of this at less-PC schools…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macalester College tries to square its relentlessly liberal image with its students’ growing sanctimony fatigue after some Mac students were found throwing a party with racist overtones: Macalester is just the latest in a string of colleges nationwide to investigate student parties and incidents this year that have involved racial overtones. Officials are checking to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}