Merit aid at Smith (and a few general questions)

ticklemepink
Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:42:25 +0000

“ticklemepink, is that also what you were referring to when you said you were the only person who seemed to have a grip on reality? I would get very frustrated very quickly if I felt I had to watch everything I said for fear of offending someone.”

Not quite. I just felt that the students were very, very idealistic in terms of their aspirations and goals. (Yet, I commend the Smith Democrats for accomplishing the goal of painting NH blue!!!). PC does contribute a bit as everyone wants to be SO supportive of each other.

PC is very strong at Smith. Ever since last October, I couldn’t talk about politics at all. Just recently, I finally had a political discussion with my parents, real one. Not that I don’t want to bash students and am moderate-liberal, I just felt like Smithies were not good at backing up their facts and not being in tune with the politics entirely. I watched my conservative friend get beaten everyday by liberals who threatened her to leave Smith and just felt sorry for the conservatives. Why should I be on the liberals’ side on campus when they were harassing the conservatives? It just didn’t seem fair, my political discussions weren’t going anywhere, and I felt that I couldn’t speak out some of my conservative views, so I quitted.

You can feel the PC once you hit the campus- the atmosphere is SO tolerant that you can feel that if you tell the lesbians in the corner to stop kissing or call a dark-skinned person at the table “black”, or tell that punk girl to take off her lip ring, then the entire campus will turn on you! High tolerance is why the students love Smith- they have the freedom to express themselves but isn’t it ironic to have the PC thing going on?