"Branding" is not hazing?

[honeychile]

I had a couple classes with guys who got branded. Their Sigma was always just below the bottom on the sleeve of a t-shirt.

I can remember thinking in the one class (it was an American History class) that, we villify the slave owners who branded their slaves as horrible people (and rightly so!), yet here's this guy willingly allowing himself to sink to that same level.

I am against branding and tatooing in general, but with history in mind, I find the branding of African Americans especially repugnant.

And I don't care if it's done as a matter of hazing or by peer pressure - there are just some things that are wrong.