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Originally Posted by Soul D-Psi-ple
Comparing the offensiveness of Abortion to that of racism? Heh? No point was really made in that scenario. Controversy surrounds the issue of abortion, but IGNORANCE surrounds racism and sexism. There's right and wrong.
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Actually, it was a very apt analogy and a very valid question to you. If organizations should be booted from campus for being offensive, then what difference does it make whether the offense comes from ignorance or not?
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Originally Posted by Soul D-Psi-ple
What they did was wrong. It WAS offensive if black women do find it offensive. That's reality. Y'ALL do not find it offensive because you are not in their shoes.
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Why do you assume that "Y'ALL do not find it offensive." Will you concede that one might very well find it offensive and warranting of a response but also believe that booting an entire organization from campus is not the appropriate response.
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Originally Posted by Soul D-Psi-ple
My point exactly. When an organization does something truly STUPID and IGNORANT, and the administration takes notice of this, they have to do something about it.
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Again with the assumptions. The op-ed piece quoted in the original post says: "Chi Phi fraternity pledges flashed naked images of black women to passers-by." You may infer from that "the organization" in some way is responsible for this incident, but the article doesn't state that. Meanwhile, the Athens paper says:
Campus police said seven students and a visitor photographed people's reactions as they showed them photos from a pornographic magazine.
Chi Phi President Matthew Hughes said the chapter is "embarrassed" about the incident, which was not sanctioned by the fraternity. He would not say why the students displayed the pictures.
The fraternity is cooperating with the university on the investigation, he said. "We are trying our best to go down the right path," Hughes said.
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Ga. Frat Suspended for Showing Nude Pics; emphasis added. The suspension appears to bar the chapter from sponsoring any events while the investigation is ongoing.)