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09-13-2006, 12:06 AM
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How do you know the Chi Phis had anything to do with this?
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09-13-2006, 12:12 AM
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My best friend is a Chi Phi and we are both black, this is a real shame. But one person does not speak for all, etc. etc. etc. Hopefully, they will A) get kicked off campus and B) personally learn from this experience.
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Why do you think an organization would be kicked off campus when they had two pledges do something offensive (not illegal) which cannot be directly tied to the organization?
It seems you're jumping the gun on a few points in making these assumptions.
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09-13-2006, 12:54 AM
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I hate it when people use "racism" as a reason to kick people off campus. Just leave them be, and let them have a reputation as being racist. I remember when Auburn tried to kick off Beta a couple years back, only to have Beta file suit and Auburn blinked. I don't like a society that unnaturally punishes the way people think, generally, the direct result of their actions will be punishment enough. I'm not saying that the porn thing isn't worthy of punishment, but it shouldnt have anything to do with race. We need to stop trying to protect everyone's feelings.
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09-13-2006, 09:58 AM
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It doesn't matter to me if you are purple with pink stripes and orange polka dots. If you don't give me your name, I can't help you. (Don't blame me if you got arrested!).
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It should matter to you if someone is purple. It means they are choking. Stop asking for their name and do the Heimlich.
Just kidding, just trying to lighten up the mood a little bit.
I think that society overall is racist, but that kneejerk reactions like banning chi phi's chapter isn't going to help anything. Really, though, the only thing Chi Phi is clearly at wrong for is giving bids to whoever thought this would be a good idea. It really is a shame, all the way around. A few dipwads ruin everybody's fun time and almost start a race war.
I also don't think that giving out porn is worthy of punishment. Their punishment will be being known as the fraterinty that gave out porn.
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09-13-2006, 12:44 PM
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It's not only racially offensive, but sexually offensive. My opinion is only my opinion. Most likely that will not happen because it won't be taken as a very "serious" offense as that is the usual response when "boys will be boys" regardless of how stupid or offensive the act is. I'm taking a lot of Women's Studies courses this semester and the things I am learning about sexism and racism are really opening my eyes to the world and the way it involves myself. It was solely my opinion. That's all.
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09-13-2006, 01:01 PM
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It's not only racially offensive, but sexually offensive.
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I hope you mean that it's sexually offensive to those who were forced to look at the pics, because it really can't be offensive to the paid models who voulentarily posed for the magazine, and were fairly compensated.
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09-13-2006, 01:38 PM
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I'm taking a lot of Women's Studies courses this semester
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09-13-2006, 02:06 PM
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It's not only racially offensive, but sexually offensive. My opinion is only my opinion. Most likely that will not happen because it won't be taken as a very "serious" offense as that is the usual response when "boys will be boys" regardless of how stupid or offensive the act is. I'm taking a lot of Women's Studies courses this semester and the things I am learning about sexism and racism are really opening my eyes to the world and the way it involves myself. It was solely my opinion. That's all.
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Well, what you are proposing goes way beyond "boys will be boys" or whatever. It has nothing to do with that at all. You're talking about a government entity (the school) punishing a private organization for actions of its prospective new members, which are offensive, but caused no actual harm.
Let's say I find abortion to be absolutely offensive (I don't really). The University's chapter of N.O.W. or whatever feminist group has a rally supporting abortion rights. They go so far as to encourage abortion as a form of birth control, even going so far as to say that an abortion occuring well within the third trimester ought to be available on demand. Being offended, would you say that I ought to be able to expect the university to revoke their recognition of participating groups because they offended me? Why not?
Do you find the naked female body to be all that offensive? Why is that?
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09-13-2006, 02:52 PM
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Comparing the offensiveness of Abortion to that of racism? Heh? No point was really made in that scenario. Controversy surrounds the issue of abortion, but IGNORANCE surrounds racism and sexism. There's right and wrong. What they did was wrong. It WAS offensive if black women do find it offensive. That's reality. Y'ALL do not find it offensive because you are not in their shoes. Many of y'all are quick to down play the situation when something like this happens....
Anyways, I'm not surprised by this. It is UGA after all.
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09-13-2006, 02:57 PM
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Comparing the offensiveness of Abortion to that of racism? Heh? No point was really made in that scenario. Controversy surrounds the issue of abortion, but IGNORANCE surrounds racism and sexism. There's right and wrong. What they did was wrong. It WAS offensive if black women do find it offensive. That's reality. Y'ALL do not find it offensive because you are not in their shoes. Many of y'all are quick to down play the situation when something like this happens....
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but would closing their chapter really remove any ignorance? I think it would only cause more tension and set up an "us vs. them" mentality or continune or worsen it.
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09-13-2006, 03:00 PM
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but would closing their chapter really remove any ignorance? I think it would only cause more tension and set up an "us vs. them" mentality or continune or worsen it.
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No, it would not remove individual ignorance, but it would remove an organization from the campus that represents ignorance. I can't really think of any accredited 4-year institution that wants to associated with that. Can you?
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09-13-2006, 03:02 PM
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I can't really think of any accredited 4-year institution that wants to associated with that. Can you?
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Accredited 4-year insitutions have been associated with MUCH worse and managed to not complain about it.
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09-13-2006, 03:09 PM
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Accredited 4-year insitutions have been associated with MUCH worse and managed to not complain about it.
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True they have been. But now, it's 2006. The question is, do they CURRENTLY want to be associated with ignorance?
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09-13-2006, 03:19 PM
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The question is, do they CURRENTLY want to be associated with ignorance?
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Some institutions CURRENTLY don't care until they are forced to care.
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09-13-2006, 03:26 PM
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Some institutions CURRENTLY don't care until they are forced to care.
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My point exactly. When an organization does something truly STUPID and IGNORANT, and the administration takes notice of this, they have to do something about it. There are MANY examples of this in the media. I doubt if any institution wants their reputation tarnished. So what point are you trying to make?
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