[234] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: What can we do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Jones)
Fri Apr 27 11:30:05 2001
To: LeeAnn L Henn <langdon@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU, spa-discuss@MIT.EDU
From: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: LeeAnn L Henn's message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:07:10 -0400"
Date: 27 Apr 2001 11:29:58 -0400
Message-ID: <ppwu23ae4y1.fsf@PIXIE.MIT.EDU>
LeeAnn L Henn <langdon@MIT.EDU> writes:
> It's not because it's offensive to students that I think it wouldn't be sent.
> It's because of the racism and sexism.
You're probably right, though I wouldn't be too quick to ignore the
anti-administration sentiment being a factor as well. Voodoo can
probably get away with more because they are a humor magazine, and so
their skewering of the administration is less barbed (yet still
accurate).
This is orthogonal to my opinion that the administration should be
viewpoint neutral towards student groups.
> I doubt the other papers sent in the packet made claims like "All
> non-Catholics are less intelligent and less motivated than the
> Catholic students are."
No, but the Cathloics (and many other religions) do hold beliefs
almost as disturbing (e.g., if you're not baptized you're headed for
hell). Admittedly, statements like these probably weren't in the
packet, but they're still implied by the term "catholic".
Ray Jones
