Discussion for article #241507
Yea they are sorry because there were supposed to be 3.
Bill Maher has something else to be upset about with all those PC college kids today. I’ll bet those Brown kids don’t laugh hard enough at his jokes, either.
I read the white cow privilege article…
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I think his argument is that white people are better at raising cows and therefore oppression is normal. Or something. Seriously what a horribly-written essay.
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Oh darn it Chad, we JUST missed the column cancellation deadline! How unfortunate (wink, wink).
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There was once a time when one refuted bigoted, idiotic ideas with facts and logic. Now you just delete them - so much easier.
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Columbus Day Super Sale–two columns for one apology.
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The student who wrote them is also the opinion editor of the newspaper. It would have been interesting to see whether the newspaper would have published future commentary refuting his facts and premises. One might think that the Brown U. community has some people able and willing to do so.
but but but we’re post-racial, and millennials don’t see color, and what about Jay-Z…he’s rich so racism can’t exist
This kid will have a lucrative career, the punishment for racist behavior is short term, he’ll get another chance
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WHat A BUNCH of PC crybabies. Without Columbus, REdsKINS Wouldn’t HavE caSinOS.
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I recognize where his first column sprang from: “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond, which argues that the people of the Near East (spreading from there to Europe, India, and the Far East) had certain built-in advantages as compared to people living in Africa and the Americas. Those advantages included greater numbers of native plants and animals that could be domesticated, and they led to more complex civilizations developing earlier with the technological and social benefits that come with those complex civilizations.
That being said, I have absolutely no idea what the Brown columnist was getting on about. His editorial was utterly incoherent.
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Some people are just conditioned to whine. They made an apology. A real apology, not “sorry if anyone was offended” apology. And still you bitch.
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Gives a whole new slant to “the war on Brown people”
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Fitting, considering that Brown was founded on slave-trading money.
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This is a field of study with which I am quite familiar. Calling this racist reflects only ignorance of scholarship. I posted a statement on the Brown site. It is below. What the author of the cow piece is saying not only isn’t controversial, it is an element of the basic research for those involved in the study of the intersection between sociology and science. It is outrageous that someone who is presenting what he would learn in a sophomore class on this topic is branded a racist. Perhaps we will soon call those who say white people enslaved Africans racist. Because this approaches that same level of ridiculousness.
What I wrote to Brown:
I have read this article three times. It involves an area of scholarship with which I am quite familiar. To argue this is racist is not only the height of sophistry, but demonstrates a level of fundamental and almost willful ignorance of sociology and science.
The closest thing I read in this column that says race is genetic is this: “It seems churlish to even discuss the biology of human difference. We are all different. We are all unique individuals. Our genetic codes, physical features and (to an extent) emotions and behaviors are entities of physics and biology. We evolved differently, with many (ultimately unsuccessful) cousin species. Over time, we spread out into different climates, interbred with each other and with our unique sets of neighbors and evolved light skin, dark skin, flat faces, prognathic jaws, blue eyes, brown eyes, great height, short stature and a host of other physical features.”
Can someone explain exactly what is incorrect about that statement? Do Japanese parents not have children with the features shared by those of Japanese heritage? What about Danish parents? The author is making a statement of the obvious, involving, as he says, physics and biology that played a role in our genetic codes, physical features, emotions and behaviors.
The author then goes on to make the quite interesting - and, in the field, quite well documented - connection between the evolution of agriculture and protein-based diets and economic growth in ancient times. Food and water begat power. That is his point.
Hopefully, the faculty at Brown can take aside the editors of the Brown Daily Herald and give them a short class on what this author was saying. Until then, shame on all of you. You have demonstrated nothing but your ignorance by proclaiming there is something improper about this article. Perhaps next you will drag someone into the editorial room to chastise them for declaring the earth revolves around the sun? Vincenzo Maculani would be proud of you. And if you don’t know who that is - look it up. He has a position waiting for him on the Brown Daily Herald.
Sorry…gee some people can’t take a joke…and no, that wasn’t a “real” apology…ha ha ha…