I had missed this whole thing being busy and what not, but I think the media’s reaction is demonstrative of how little much of the mainstream media understands about what any person of color is saying about racism.
So for those who haven’t heard about this, some students of color complain to the school about “insensitive” costumes, which, given how white Yale is, you know damn well includes blackface and other gross racist nonsense, and the school puts out a boilerplate “let’s be chill” e-mail. Then some fucking morons who already had their shoe polish and durags and dollar store fake grills ready to go whine to their teacher like the entitled babies they are that someone dared even suggested they not be dickheads. The teacher sends out an e-mail about how maybe we should all just have a discussion about how blackface is totally fine and how college used to be a safe space for dickheads, and why shouldn’t we be encouraging racists to be fucking assholes and make people feel unsafe? Why should we cater to the feelings of people of color when we can cater to the feelings of total shithead racists, right?
And then a student of color yelled at said teacher and it was caught on video. And of course, of fucking course, the media reports it as her “bullying” the teacher, and as “intolerance.” Not the encouragement of students dressing in costumes they know will make their peers feel unsafe and open the wounds of discrimination the idiots wearing the idiot costumes have never felt and will never feel. That’s not intolerance, apparently. But being upset about it is.
And apparently, The Daily Caller, in revealing every scrap of this girl’s web presence, her picture, her home address, her employment history, her writings, her parents’ company’s information, and so on, didn’t feel that they were bullying her or censoring her, even as they updated to reveal that she had deleted every one and been fired from or quit her multiple jobs and student leadership positions. No, that’s not bullying. That’s not censorship. Apparently, asking to be respected as a human being, that’s bullying, that’s censorship.
Issues like these are where white liberals and conservatives find common ground. To them, it’s an intellectual exercise or a matter of taste, it’s as inconsequential as a difference of opinion on pizza toppings or sock height. They lack the empathy to understand it as an issue of safety, of avoiding very real pain, the way you might kindly ask someone not to slap you in the face or spit in your food. They will never feel the wounds, so they–by choice or otherwise–don’t see them.
It’s honestly so disgusting, and The Daily Caller has gone and shocked me again by proving that every new low they hit is not the floor, but simply another rock jutting from the walls of the abyss. And the fact that the Atlantic and the New York Times and so on have done similar (albeit less doxxy) pieces on the subject just proves how little the journalistic establishment understands about what it is to respect another human being.
