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Originally Posted by thetalady
Kevin, you just have to stop saying this. Please. It is NOT just 2 fraternity chapters that are crossing very serious lines.
And the offenses just keep getting worse and more nightmarish. "She doesn't need a pulse if she is hot enough" and "That tree is so perfect for lynching" are sick and really scary for some people. It borders on psychotic. What the hell is wrong with these young men?
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You have to take all things in context. If they were plotting to lynch someone, that borders on psychotic. If they were trying to be funny by writing things which would shock the conscience, like dead baby jokes (VERY NSFW),
http://www.skrause.org/humor/deadbaby.shtml
Then i'm not going to say they were psychotic... but maybe they were indecent and need to learn that their "humor" can actually cause severe mental anguish for some people. This sort of speech is pervasive within our culture. A lot of it comes from places like 4chan (again, super NSFW) or other websites these kids have been visiting long before they entered the fraternity system.
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RAPE IS NOT SOMETHING TO JOKE OR LAUGH ABOUT. EVER. I know you agree with that.
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Of course. That said, I'm not going to call for the end of the institution of the American college fraternity because some of their members might make inappropriate jokes. That seems absurd.
And I appreciate what you're saying Mysticat, but to even acknowledge that these people calling for the end of the fraternal system as having some means to accomplish that just encourages them. As long as our national organizations as in this case continue to be good stewards of their reputation, I'm pretty sure we'll be just fine.