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We should hold ourselves to high standards and I am all for standing up to our sisters of color. I am saying that THIS bad joke alone does not make someone the poster child for claims of institutional racism on campus. I was pointing out the hypocrisy of calling this child a racist for a joke that reasonable minds can agree *may* have been said with no racist intent, in contrast to many of our own acts (or failures to act) which were clearly, unambiguously racist.
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Again, no one claimed the young woman *was* racist, only that this post was. And this bad joke is not alone on this campus, hence the harsher reaction by the administration.