Letting the Freak Flag Fly ... Going Too Far?

[ctyankee]

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@mamenyu

'Everywhere you go these days, including all the Ivy League schools, there are kids with tattoos and piercings: are they freaks? This issue is a nonstarter. I smell a ■■■■■.

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<p>What you smell is your own thread fart. Don’t like the topic, don’t post here. Ah yes, the ‘T’ word you use is not ‘tolerant’ … don’t like things and start calling names. And when an Ivy League parent tells me that students ‘let the freak flag fly’ and young men go to classes in dresses (and not as a joke) then it will be the same. But that hasn’t happened. At Oberlin it has and students posted in this thread have confirmed that it does occur. You don’t like that? Tough. </p>

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@monydad

Coming onto a school’s sub-forum and insulting everyone associated with it- under the cover of “someone else said it”- certainly makes a statement. I’m not sure it’s a statement about the school though. I highly recommend OP & Co. don’t apply to this school, though not for the reasons asserted.

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<p>How very telling. What is this “association” you speak of? This is not an Alumni forum. This is not a Parents of Oberlin students forum. You sir are not “associated” with this sub-forum any more than any other CC poster. </p>

<p>If tolerance is nurtured at Oberlin, perhaps tolerance of ideas other than your own might be something your child could ‘school you in.’</p>