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Originally posted by adduncan
The recommendation for "sensitivity training" is a good one--if it goes both ways. The letter to the editor that you posted was every bit as hateful as the 2 persons who supposedly shouted those comments. So while it would be a positive PR gesture for the Greek system to have "sensitivity training" regarding LGBTQ issues, it would be equally appropriate to have "sensitivity training" among the LGBTQ community (and the letter-writer in particular) regarding prejudice and hatred towards organizations with people different from them. I'd be emphasizing that 2 people or 2 comments at a single event do not justify the comments made in the letter.
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I wonder.
We spend tons of time and posts on any racial incident or slur (ie the deplorable "blackface" situations) -- and don't want to give any benefit of a doubt to the idiots who commit them -- even if there is at least some doubt as to whether they are meant to be offensive, or the people are simply dumb.
It's not likely that whomever allegedly yelled these anti-gay comments did it by mistake.
So, should that chapter in Chicago be closed or censured because of the actions of what, hopefully, is in the minority.
Would the comments in the letter be any less strident if this had been a racial incident?
If statistics are true (and I wouldn't take that to the bank), there are probably more gay men in their fraternity (or even their chapter) than there are black men. I wonder how a gay man or woman would feel hearing his/her brother or sister making those comments.
This is a dual standard that has never really occurred to me, but your comment sure got me thinking.