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Originally Posted by Kevin
While I would agree, my organization and others have problematic pasts, which I'm happy to get into elsewhere, not too many years ago, Kappa Alpha was still holding their "Old South" event where they all dressed up in their Confederate uniforms (what kind of person has that in their closet? Are they all Civil War reinactors?) and paraded around campus, in many cases making sure to stop for awhile in front of NPHC houses.
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There was a KA Order chapter at my (non-Southern) university in the early 2010s which did nothing like that. And, my understanding is it was banned nationally in 2016, meaning no one who is an undergraduate active today has ever participated in such an event, at least sanctioned, among the handful of chapters still practicing it by that date.
I'm hesitant to indict individual 18 and 19 year olds for actions taken by a group before the period of their membership.
If we're going to do that fairly, then there would be no arbitrary time limit imposed (whether 4 years or 140 years) and all individual members must be denounced for affiliation with such an organization regardless of how far back the violation occurred and regardless of what amends have been made in the interim. Arbitrary time limits are capricious and serve only as a scape goat that permits us to denounce others while declaring our own ethical perfection.
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