Sunday, May 4, 2014
What Happened in the Wool Ballrooms last night..
Yesterday night after a performance in the Wool Ballrooms, this post was left on the projector. This is disgusting and demeaning. I understand that there is freedom of speech, however this is unacceptable. I already do not feel wanted at this university due to so many racial slurs people openly joke about, but this has taken it to another level. Who has the nerve to do something like this? Something must be done because this is simply unacceptable. How do you feel about the situation?
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I think that it is very important for voices like yours to be heard at SLU, in this example, but even more so in the example you gave of openly racist jokes. From my experience, most of the people who make racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive jokes do not realize that they are actually hurting people, and if a privileged white male like me tries to explain it to them, they do not believe me. As the recent events on campus have shown, there are people out there who truly are racists, but i believe that the majority of people are actually well meaning, but just ignorant and misguided.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is as much of a racist issues as it is people trying to get attention and get a rise out of others. It shouldn't happen either way but if you want attention on a large scale, this would be how you get it. I'm sure there are people who are actually racists out there, and they are misguided, but I don't think they are the kind of people to take such drastic measures.
ReplyDeleteI find this disgusting and shameful for anyone to write this as a joke. I am sure this is not the first time a racial or bias incident has happened, it is just being shared because it was shown publicly.
ReplyDeleteThis is very offensive. One could say that the individual who did this was trying to get attention yet they didn't sign their names so the attention turns now to the university. If the words were names that offended your ethnicity, heritage, or culture would it still be a brush off the shoulder?
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