I only come at you when you act like an ass, because you deserve it.
I can't help it when other people have a wrong impression. To some degree I agree with SOME criticisms. But when they are uninformed AND have more to do with prejudice against a race of people than the NPHC, as in Hoosier's case, I will indeed comment.
Otherwise I will generally ignore them. I have done my time educating folks about black people and the NPHC. I am too through with all of that. If people want to pass some kind of judgement then that is their deal and nothing I say on the internet is going to change that. I learned that from lots of GC experience.
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Originally posted by Rudey
While you may not like the image, that's the image that a lot of people have about minority fraternities and sororities. Yes we may not know them at all but that is the image that we all have in our heads.
It doesn't help when you have people in these fraternities talking about how rough it is and how others might not make it. It doesn't help when you see kids branded and while they may not have been forced to get it and think it's cool, you once again associate it with pain immediately in your head. Even my friends in one asian fraternity would tell me that you have to treat it like the military. That just didn't sit well with ME.
Also I know on GC, it just sorta feels like as soon as any news comes out about this, it disappears from the general threads because Amycat is friends with some people that don't want those threads on there. I'm not saying that anyone is doing anything wrong, but this creates this further image of people trying to hide something (not saying you are).
At the end of the day you'll tell me I know nothing about your org. That's fine. I don't. I'm just saying what the image a lot of people might have of those orgs. I personally have it with the fraternities. The sororities i see as being older women in phd's only because those were the only ones at MY school. You also don't have to care what anyone else's image is but if that's the case, don't flip out if they state what their impression is.
-Rudey
--That is all. I haven't been mean, so please don't take this as an opportunity to come at me.
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