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    HelioMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 2:25pm

    As usual, the youtube comments in the Halloween protest reveal the worst of men and white America. When a young woman, fed up with being treated like a piece of shit in the Land Of the Free, gets up in a man’s face (the horror!) and demands some consequences for shitty behavior, she’s the psycho. Meanwhile, old tea bagging fascists can yell at their elected officials, show up at rallies with assault rifles, and protect racist cops to the detriment of everyone else and they’re Good, Freedom-loving Americans. Huh, wonder what the difference is? White Male America doesn’t want to share the Freedoms and Opportunities and I totally get it. MOST of the members in that demographic barely have a grasp of those things, shockingly living in closer proximity to the lower caste. After shooting themselves in the foot politically for the last 30 years and attributing other (kinds of) people’s failures on their poor work ethic and inherent badness, it’s difficult to see their failures as anything else.

    As a Yale Alum, I know that White Male America sure as hell don’t want to share Yale either. After putting on the Whitest of Airs my entire life to get into The Club, I still feel like a second class citizen. Ornamental at best, invisible and neglected at worst. It’s a cushy cell at least and for that, I’m grateful. The problem of Yale is the problem of this WHOLE COUNTRY in that White Male America can’t say it’s “Sorry for hoarding the Freedoms and Opportunities” Saying sorry, admits culpability, and admitting culpability requires PENANCE and PAYMENT. White Male America doens’t want to forfeit either. That’s why Big Banks can pay fines, but don’t suffer incarceration. That’s why Dick Cheney can get called names but still receives the best medical care Satan can buy. The best they can do is say, “thanks for your feedback and we’ll look into it.” Very comforting.

    Sorry for the long rant but life is exhausting and I needed to vent!

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      PhotographyRaptorHelio
      11/07/15 4:01pm

      How do you know that this particular Yale student has been treated like a “piece of shit”? That’s a hell of an assumption.

      Demanding someone lose their job for something like this is beyond ridiculous. Get a grip.

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      CriticalMouseHelio
      11/07/15 4:04pm

      TLDR.

      Oh, also I lost interest when you said you were a Yale alum.

      Doooooont caaaaaarrrreeee

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    ww1383Melissa Cronin
    11/07/15 3:59pm

    So the moral of this story is that the rest of us should be silent about White people doing racist things because of free speech. We can even sum it up as freedom of speech is for white people.

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      NickArdenww1383
      11/07/15 4:24pm

      Like it or not, racism is free speech.

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      RabbleRabbleHeyww1383
      11/07/15 4:44pm

      We can even sum it up as freedom of speech is for white people.

      Ding ding ding! All of these people crying about PC politics are just trying to get women and POC to shut up.

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    Alex CMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 2:25pm

    These students are pathetic. Grow the fuck up. How did these kids get into Yale, when they can’t even handle Halloween constumes? I’m so fucking embarrassed to be part of this generation.

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      GederixAlex C
      11/07/15 3:37pm

      I’m so fucking embarrassed at how many commenters here appear to think the issue here is about halloween costumes. Forest for the trees and all that.

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      PinceNezGederix
      11/07/15 3:58pm

      I know you know this, but it’s because they simply cannot perceive of a costume that would make them feel threatened, and they can’t (or won’t) get beyond that. I can’t even think of a costume that would attempt to make white men as a group feel threatened or diminished. In the 60s, maybe, if a black man “dressed up” as a Black Panther for Halloween (I doubt that happened even once, though, because that would be offensive to the movement as well).

      Short of that, since there hasn’t been even a blip of a threat to white supremacy in decades, let alone a violent threat, they have nothing to go on except basic human decency. And obvs. the trolls here are lacking that.

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    ApfpilotMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 4:38pm

    Having read the letter by Erika Christakis I found it to be quite well written and to have some very good points in it. My daughter who is 4 this year dressed as sleeping beauty. Was I allowing her to fetishize the culture of princesses and the patriarchy that existed in former monarchies? No I was allowing her to have fun pretending to be a character she loves. She also dressed as doc mcstuffins for a party (we are white) no she didn't wear black face was she appropriating black culture? Or the culture of black girls who have a magical stethoscope that allows them to talk to toys? Of course not.

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      NardcoreApfpilot
      11/07/15 5:03pm

      You and your daughter were, however, taking away the very soul and dignity, not to mention the free-snoring rights, of narcoleptic-Americans. For shame

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      ApfpilotNardcore
      11/07/15 5:16pm

      i’ll be sure to shame her and demand she pay reparations.

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    CryptidMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 4:21pm

    What surprises me about this entire exchange is the strange timidity of both emails. The first email does not institute guidelines on costumes or set limits on expression; it simply asks students to display basic courtesy toward each other. The response seems somewhat oblivious, in that it refuses “control” where no one was asserting a new rule. But it does not deny the offensiveness of bad costumes; it suggests that we should be forgiving of teenaged fuck-ups.

    Christakis is punching at empty air in that email, pushing back against a request as if it were a policy. And in that sense his email looks like opportunistic grandstanding, a way to float an opinion where there is no real question of policy. The protestors are right to point out that he was jawing off like an asshole, because duh, but the call for his job...I don’t know.

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      Gary-XCryptid
      11/07/15 7:56pm

      Just want to point out this it was a woman who sent the email. The man who was told to step down is her husband who met with students to defend her (from what I can gather).

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      CryptidGary-X
      11/08/15 1:07am

      Yeah, caught that mistake after the editing window had elapsed. Derp.

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    sui_generisMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 3:34pm

    Wow, the racist trolls are out in force on this article, and people keep taking the bait.

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      RedWritersui_generis
      11/07/15 3:51pm

      And they really want us to know this is all about Halloween costumes.

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      Leegesui_generis
      11/07/15 4:26pm

      Not me - I’m just starring and flagging as needed.

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    BIlllingtonMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 4:21pm

    The students are coming across very badly here. Screaming and tantrums (“losing sleep”? Come the fuck on) are going to make everyone turn against you immediately. It certainly doesn’t help that for the most part these students are some of the most privileged people in America and this seems at best childish and petulant.

    As for you reactionary slime in these comments ranting and raving about “leftists” and “Marxists”(seriously, could you even describe why Marxism is relevant here?), you can fuck off. Go back to whining about video game journalism or whatever it is you shut-ins do.

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      Gary-XBIlllington
      11/07/15 7:57pm

      But Marxism is the big, bad boogeyman of the college elite!

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      Travis of the CosmosGary-X
      11/08/15 5:05am

      Yeah, in 1970.

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    #NotAllYzermanMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 2:08pm

    ““I think we have to be a better university. I think we have to do a better job,” Yale University’s president reportedly said in a closed-door meeting on Thursday night.”

    C’mon, Yalies. Ben Carson's not ALL your fault.

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      Jerry-Netherland#NotAllYzerman
      11/07/15 2:27pm

      George W, Bush isn’t all their fault, either, but thery still have to acknowledge he’s a Yale grad, too, somehow.

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      Mrs.Choate PFLAG GrandmaJerry-Netherland
      11/07/15 3:26pm

      I doubt the rules against offensive behavior penetrate the walls of the Skull & Bones club house.

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    DetMunchOneLinerMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 1:51pm

    Considering that these assholes still haven’t changed Calhoun College’s name when students of color have been begging for this for years, consider me underwhelmed by their recent PR attempts. They don’t know how to do the right thing because it’s the right thing; they only act when polling or police reports tell them to.

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      DrMantisTobogganAtYourServiceDetMunchOneLiner
      11/07/15 2:35pm

      “Students of color” is a thing now?

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      DetMunchOneLinerDrMantisTobogganAtYourService
      11/07/15 2:37pm

      Reddit down today?

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    Graby SauceMelissa Cronin
    11/07/15 4:45pm

    Privileged white people are the biggest, most pathetically aggrieved whiners and victims in America. The administration asked them to respect others and not be racist and that is JUST A BRIDGE TOO FAR for these overprivileged, wanna-be-out-of-the-closet racists. They need to learn some fucking manners, realize their feelings aren’t the most important on the planet, and get a fun, non-offensive costume. No one is asking them to give up fun; they are asking them to be decent human beings.

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