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| In the two undergraduate universities I attended, the darker skinned students were encouraged to hang out with each other. |
I can see that. There's no "German Heritage" club, for instance, at most schools; the most they'll do is something centered around the language. However, there are enough orgs that allow for every race imaginable.
I think the students at my school (I also went to a very, very liberal school on the East coas) like the segregation, though, and they encourage it while the administration does nothing. The students aren't very nice about letting anyone into their org who isn't, for instance, East Asian.
I don't think that you can totally blame the administration on everything, because you can lead a horse to water but not force it to drink. Our housing was strategically done so that there were mixes of race in our dorms. Despite the number of white students at that campus, quite a few students of color came there with a chip on their shoulders re. white students, because they had prior bad incidents involving white people in their hometowns. From what I understand from a friend, that these other students would talk about race issues against white people and have her start thinking about how she doesn't like them. These discussions are technically sanctioned by the school, but students runs the orgs without adult interference, unless they're suspected of embezzling money or hazing or other illegal activities.
These are the people I talk about, btw, when I talk about how anyone can be racist.
At that point in our lives, I'd like to think that we were adult enough to try new things and smart enough not believe everything that we are told. I don't know if forcing it is the right way, because I think people hate being told what to do.
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| But my point is that when you use your free speech rights to prevent someone else from even speaking a word. I mean, literally preventing someone else from using their voice. I call that censorship, which is the complete opposite of free speech. But if I did that to some of these liberal groups, I get called all kinds of vile names. That dirves me bonkers. |
I know what you're talking about. Some of the students would rip down fliers from the conservative orgs or ridiculously trash them. Ann Coulter came to my school once and everyone was really, really rude to her during the talk. I could understand protesting outside but the talk was a bit much. And I'm probably as liberal as you can get, can't stand Ann Coulter, but there were more constructive means to protest her being there. In some people's minds, freedom of speech only applies if you agree with them.
I'm not sure if those students grew up in areas where people thought that was appropriate or were lashing out at conservatives now that the liberals were in the majority. Part of me thinks it's the former, because they would form crazy arguments about liberal ideals that made no sense to me, even though I held the same belief but for different reasons.
I grew up in a very conservative part of the US, and I had to deal with people being hateful towards me for being liberal, so I always felt sympathy towards the conservative groups.
