At the Yale Daily News, East Germany had nothing on the paper's opinion editor, Isis Davis-Marks.
The Nazi SS had nothing. The Castroite Cuban turbas had nothing. Mao's cultural revolution had nothing.
Here's what Davis-Marks has in mind for Yale college kids:
Everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions. He could be in Grand Strategy or the Yale Political Union. Maybe he's the editor-in-chief of the News. He takes his classes. He networks. And, when it comes time for graduation, he wins all the awards.
One day, I'll turn on the television — or, who knows, maybe televisions will be obsolete by this point — and I'll see him sitting down for his Senate confirmation hearing. Yes, he'll be a bit older, with tiny wrinkles sprouting at the corners of his eyes and a couple of gray hairs jutting out of the top of his widow's peak. But that smile, that characteristic saccharine smile, will remain the same.
When I'm watching the white boy — who is now a white man by this point — on CNN, I'll remember a racist remark that he said, an unintentional utterance that he made when he had one drink too many at a frat party during sophomore year. I'll recall a message that he accidentally left open on a computer when he forgot to log out of iMessage, where he likened a woman's body to a particularly large animal. I'll kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence.
She concludes...
We allow things to skate by. We forget. We say, "No, he couldn't have done that," or, "But he's so nice." No questions are asked when our friends accept job offers from companies that manufacture weapons or contribute to gentrification in cities. We merely smile at them and wave as we walk across our residential college courtyards and do nothing. Thirty years later, we kick ourselves when it's too late.
But I can't do that anymore — I can't let things slip by. I'm watching you, white boy. And this time, I'm taking the screenshot.
So here we have the lovely state of affairs at Yale University, which gave this mediocrity - after a clearly cosseted upbringing among the elites - an admission slot.
She's urging her fellow students to follow white males around, monitor them, spy on them, screenshot them, and document everything they do, in the hopes of ruining their careers at some point 30 years down the line. If she knew anything about the history of socialism or communism, which, to make charitable assumptions, she doesn't, she's in fact calling for a Stasi-like atmosphere, as seen in The Lives of Others, all because she was so inspired by the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, with the Senate Democrats' last desperate tactic of bringing up false stories dating from college as a means of sinking Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination.
6 comments:
better watch what you wish for deary..im sure you have never slipped up but we will be watching you too, you racist fat cow commie pig.
She's right, you know... but for the wrong reasons.
She confuses "white" with wealthy and privileged. It just so happens that this looks like "white" because of socio-economic differences.
It does all stem from the end of segregation. Whites were mostly well off in their neighbor hoods. Blacks and other minorities not so much. At the end of segregation, those minorities who had some wealth (i.e. community leaders and examples) moved out.... leaving a crushingly poor community ripe to be ravaged by crime and inequality.
Those of means who can afford to get away with things, do. Those who are all ready targeted as poor and a problem don't. This isn't judgement, it's an observation. This is just the way it is.
Her article is a frustrated reaction to the perpetuation of a system where the deck is stacked against the have-nots, and a stance of "no more" will it be acceptable.
I'm not saying that I agree with her.. there are glaring flaws in her assessment and conclusion... but at the heart of rant... she is not incorrect.
This is not a problem here, or now. It has always been, through all cultures and times. The rich and powerful staying so, and getting away with it. The poor living under their boot.
Again, I'm not making judgements of right or wrong, I am merely making the observation.
Her anger at "white-boys" is one that is directed at the rich, well off, and powerful who always get away with things that their lesser economically well off peers would not. It is just the nature of things.
Going to Yale but still a dumb a$$! There was enough information on these tyrants. Just no one did anything about it - there is a difference.
Why would any parent even let their child attend a school like that and what does Yale have to say about that crazy crap? And people wonder why some people become racist. It's because they are forced into that position by black racist radicals. The so called black leaders like Jesse Jackson , Al Sharpton and the Democrats have done everything they can to cause disharmony between the races and we see the result of that effort at Yale University. Down with the Democrats and GOD BLESS President Trump. MAGA
Ain't nobody got time for that
Dave T: Looks like another self centered, miserable, kook thinks they're going to change the world by adding more hatred to their life. Maybe if she spent half as much energy learning instead of hating, she wouldn't look like a stupid racist. Do you honestly think all white people are rich and have it easy? If so, how on earth did you get into Yale beside the minority quota? Certainly it wasn't from you academic ability. Gotta play that race card! You go girl.
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