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Originally Posted by SNUIGC
Although I know that this is probably going to throw fuel on the fire...and I probably shouldn't type this...but, I can't restrain myself, sorry.
That sounds almost exactly what a fraternity guy here said when Jesse Jackson came years and years ago... the IFC people here wouldn't let "negros" into the fraternities...so, he came down and asked why... one of the fraternity guys said, "We don't have to, so, fuck off."
My question is...where will it be in 40 years? Back in the sixties blacks were in an even worse situation...yet look what's happened in that time. People were making the same arguments about why we shouldn't let black people onto campuses, into fraternities, etc. that it's immoral, unethical, etc., but look at where it's gone since then.
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They've joined chapters on campuses progressive enough to be open to them?
Other chapters and campuses remain segregated, but in most cases the problem seems to be almost as much about the lack of diversity of people going through recruitment as it does intentional discrimination by the groups. (Sure, I wish everyone who put forth some extra in this area through COB or special efforts at getting pre-rushing people into participating in formal, but that's not the point here so much: the point is that the social groups have finally accepted prevailing social norms and they are reflected in the membership of groups.)
I suppose I just find it surprising that some of you expect Greek organizations to be more progressive than society at large in various regions. I tend to think that private social clubs are much more likely to be more conservative, in the sense of resisting change, at least because it's going to tend to be a group of like minded people. When the people in the groups regard members of various demographic groups to be socially similar to them, then the groups will invite members of those groups to membership.
It's going to take some chapters longer than others, but unless you've had openly gay and lesbian members and anti-discrimination clauses about sexual orientation for a LONG time, maybe you should get off your moral high horses about people are who slower to realize what your organization may have just realized in the last ten years?