Dartmouth sorority cancels "racist" Kentucky Derby party theme

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If Dartmouth gave us toga parties then I have new respect for them. Those were really fun!

Just sayin’: Protesters on campus these days (the ones we hear about at least) seem to be knee jerk protesters. I don’t listen to any of them along the lines of “crying wolf” like mentioned above. I turn it off. I’m willing to listen to real arguments but I don’t hear anything beyond “my feelings got hurt”. My initial reaction is “get over it”.

At what point do you turn off listening to the message when the messenger is out of control? And the message is so garbled it doesn’t make sense?

But I will listen. (after I remove the ear plugs inserted by the rabble rousers.)

If I was confronting a group:…( But I don’t think our youth want to confront anybody with hard facts these days…which is a big problem in my eyes… They just want to avoid conflict which is a bigger problem.)

  1. Get the history right. Do the research. Do you actually have a legitimate position?
  2. Why has this impacted YOU. Why are YOU protesting?

    What’s the real story?
  3. What is YOUR history? Why is this so important to YOU ?

I don’t think anything will ever change if the past is held onto forever. Nobody will ever get past the “sins of their forefathers” . It just won’t. Ever. It comes in steps. It evolves. It can’t be legislated away. But it will change.

I am not to blame because my relatives did something bad. I’m not great either because they were wonderful. It works both ways. But I certainly don’t need to own a made up history of people who haven’t taken the time to research anything except the latest news feed article from some twerp on the internet who bought into the latest media hoopla.

If you want to have a say and protest then you should make the effort to have a reason and a reasonable argument
–you need some history and why it makes a difference. Then maybe you’ll have a positive outcome.

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Pretty much sums up how I feel about all these “college kids are so spoiled/PC” threads on CC.

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I’d like to see you cite the source of that. I’ve recently seen the movie, which I liked a lot.

It had virtually nothing to do with Dartmouth. It was set at an invented “Ivy League” school that seemed to have more in common with Princeton and its eating eating clubs. The entire central conflict–a residential house system, to which students are assigned–doesn’t even exist at Dartmouth. It exists at Yale, and in a slightly different form at Harvard. The humor magazine with strong connections to the entertainment industry sounds like the Lampoon. The student newspaper with “an advisor at the NYT” would be more like the Yale Daily News in terms of clout. (I can assure you that The Dartmouth does not rise to that level!)

The writer and director went to Chapman in California, and says it was inspired by his experience of being in the minority there.

At the end of the movie there is a series of stills of blackface parties at a variety of schools. One of the stills is the infamous Crips and Bloods parties held by a sorority and fraternity at Dartmouth. That’s about all of the connection I can find.

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I mentioned this to someone who said - oh, is it because it celebrates horse racing and they think it’s hurtful / abusive to horses? I could at least understand THAT rationale.