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The NYT reports that after a video was posted on YouTube that appeared to show members of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon at University of Oklahoma singing a racist chant, the organization’s board decided “with no mental reservation whatsoever that this chapter needed to be closed immediately.” The video shows a group of young white people in formal wear riding a bus and singing a chant laden with antiblack slurs and at least one reference to lynching. A grinning young man wearing a tuxedo and standing in the aisle of the bus pumps his fist in the air as he chants, while a young woman seated nearby claps. The chant vows that African-Americans will “never” be allowed to join the campus chapter.
The nine-second video was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday by a student group, the Unheard Movement, that first identified the people in it as members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, although the group did not indicate how it obtained the video or when it was filmed. University president, David Boren, said in an emailed statement that the administration was also investigating the video. “I have just been informed of the video, which purports to show students to show students engaging in a racist chant. We are investigating to determine if the video involved OU students. If O.U. students are involved, this behavior will not be tolerated and will be addressed very quickly,” said Boren. “This behavior is reprehensible and contrary to all of our values.” Students marched on the campus of the University of Oklahoma on Monday to protest the video.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2015, @07:37PM
> You only react to racism when you actually see it or you end up just making shit like Institutional Racism up
The idea that if cause and effect aren't easily witnessed together then it isn't real must be some kind of conservative object permanence failing.
Smoking doesn't cause cancer.
Lead poisoning doesn't cause dementia.
Over-eating doesn't make people fat.
Sex doesn't create babies.
And the transitive property is a liberal lie by elitist mathematicians who just want to be dickheads.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2015, @09:41PM
Smoking doesn't cause cancer, it increases the likelihood of it. That's beside the point though.
If you can not prove racism, you have no business punishing anyone for being racist. This is America and we damned well do not convict on suspicion here. Show me proof of an individual in power discriminating against people based on skin color or gender and I'll be right there along side you calling for his ass to be fired. Tell me an institution is racist and I'm going to call bullshit because institutions are not a real thing, they're a handy abstraction used to identify groups of individuals. Just like races are. You want to end racism, encourage individualism. It is the opposite of racism. It is impossible to be both a racist and an individualist because racism requires you first accept some degree of collectivism so that you can treat a race as a group.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2015, @10:02PM
This is America and we damned well do not convict on suspicion here.
There are many people, black and white, who would disagree with you.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-boy-executed-s-conviction-overturned-article-1.2048611 [nydailynews.com]
And then go read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overturned_convictions_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2015, @10:22PM
My mistake. s/do not/are not supposed to/
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2015, @10:54PM
> institutions are not a real thing, they're a handy abstraction
And bodies are not a real thing either, just a handy abstraction used to identify a group of individual cells.
Tell me a person is racist, I'm going to call bullshit, its just some individual cells that are racist.
All the other cells have nothing to do with it.
Want to end racism? Encourage individual cells to be their own cells, and quit it with that collectivism.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2015, @01:01AM
Have fun with that reductio ad absurdum? You failed at it by the way. The individual is both the smallest and largest entity that may hold a view on anything and the only type of entity that can serve a prison time for crimes committed. Abstractions are fine for debate and coming to general conclusions, they are not fine for the actual solving of problems. That has to happen on an individual level or it will not happen at all.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.