America, We Need to Talk by Joel Berg

Author:Joel Berg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: hunger, poverty, trump, politics, democracy, republicans, democrats, economic policy, Sanders, Clinton, politicians, government
ISBN: 9781609807306
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2017-02-01T15:53:06+00:00

I agree with every word of that, but I still must offer some mockery. The Yale student’s idea—that “safe” spaces and “intellectual” spaces are somehow contradictory—is flat-out totalitarian. If “combative” language were against the rules everywhere, as per the Fordham policy, I’d be serving consecutive life sentences in a maximum-security penitentiary for a decades’-long crime spree of verbal combativeness. I also don’t fully agree with the statement “America is the land of opportunity,” but there are thousands of fact-based methods to legitimately defend that statement without saying anything that is even remotely racist. Reporters should never—ever—be required to agree in advance on how they will report a particular story.

At Amherst College (where starting tuition, room, board, and fees exceeded $70,000 in 2016), protesting students, calling themselves “Amherst Rising,” issued a list of demands for the college administration, including

President Martin must issue a statement of apology to students, alumni and former students, faculty, administration, and staff who have been victims of several injustices including but not limited to our institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latin racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism.

President Martin must issue a statement to the Amherst College community at large that states we do not tolerate the actions of student(s) who posted the “All Lives Matter” posters, and the “Free Speech” posters that stated that “in memoriam of the true victim of the Missouri Protests: Free Speech.” Also let the student body know that it was racially insensitive to the students of color on our college campus and beyond who are victim to racial harassment and death threats; alert them that Student Affairs may require them to go through the Disciplinary Process if a formal complaint is filed, and that they will be required to attend extensive training for racial and cultural competency.

Dean Epstein must ask faculty to excuse all students from all 5 College classes, work shifts, and assignments from November 12th, 2015 to November 13th, 2015 given their organization of and attendance at the Sit-In.482

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