YUUUPPP. I went to a pretty heavily Greek school and of course there were "hot" sororities, but if you wanted to go Greek, there was something for everyone. In fact, there was one that we may have had a jokingly disparaging name or two for that actually had some of the most enthusiastic and proud members. I don't feel the need to rehash the pro/con Greek stuff that has been beat to death here, but the backlash around this is just absurd. Its no different than college advertisements during football games that show every class as perfectly diverse and lectures filled with mirth and merriment.
The company I work for is in the education technology space. Our marketing personnel were showing us a bunch of new content a couple of weeks ago and I jokingly said, "where the white kids at?". They laughed, and then started flipping back through the deck to show us where they were. Then there was stunned silence, as there wasn't a single white kid, male or female, in over 20 photos that we were using. Yeah, this PC shit has gone overboard.
I think it hit a new low with the "controversy" over Matt Taylor's shirt: ...for those who don't know, Taylor was one of the scientists of the Rosetta project, the space mission that no less than landed a probe on a speeding asteroid a few months back. This man directly took part in a huge scientific leap for our planet that shattered barriers, but he's more known for that shirt. He was so ferociously attacked by SJWs and the redfems of Amanda Marcotte's snickering retard crew for wearing the "pornographic filth" of scantily-dressed comic women that he was reduced to tears giving a forced apology on camera later. A shirt that was made by a friend of his, a female fashion designer that he was promoting by wearing it on TV. So I guess the message according to the people who attacked him is: he deserved what he got because of what he was wearing. The shirt is selling like hotcakes now.
I'd cry if I had to wear that shirt too. I want my rocket scientist so button down their flat top hair cuts are sharp enough to cut diamonds.
Was this sorority getting attacked for the video? I just read a few articles and it seems like this wasn't really PC-run-amok to me. It looked like a non-inclusive sorority made a video highlighting their non-inclusiveness, and after a bunch of people pointed that out, the sorority decided they didn't like it and shut it down. If they got barraged with hate on their social media pages demanding it be taken down, or the university forced them to pull it or whatever, I'd agree that was taken too far - it's pretty harmless and accurate advertising. As it was, it seems as simple as: organization makes video that inadvertently highlights a problem, media observes this, organization pulls video.
There's just something about a crew-cut that says "trustworthy". What's not to trust, he's ACTUALLY level-headed.
The bolded section is exactly the point. Why is it a 'problem' that the video doesn't have some ethereal standard of inclusiveness? Plus, how do we know they are non-inclusive? Just because there aren't people that 'look' different? Is diversity solely based on looks? Things like this video, and the reaction thereto (and this has been on national media) - brings to light exactly the issue that we're talking about as politically correct. Why is there any issue with this video at all? Why are we so trained to assume at this point that if there aren't different looking people in a video or group that the group must not be 'diverse?'
I imagine that a foreigner whose only exposure to America is our media and advertising would be under the impression that black people make up a much larger percentage of the American population than they actually do. Also that they are evenly distributed amongst groups of white friends.
1.5 of every 10 of my best friends is black. I was unfamiliar with this controversy until it was posted here, so you're telling me that the issue is that there weren't enough black, Asian and latina girls acting like empty-headed splooge traps in that video? O.K., that makes sense. Equal vapidity for all.
And I couldn't help but notice that was NOT a wheelchair-accessible front door when Team Tee-Hee welcomes us in. What if someone with different abledness wanted to pledge?
I'm just going to say that if anything, greek life is definitely one of those places were self segregation happens and it really isn't a huge deal. Now the origins of it might be charged, but I don't know how many white dudes/girls want to Stomp The Yard or participate in Drumlines. It's okay for people to be in different shit, and sometimes that different shit comes across racial lines. Greek life comes down to people who are into different shit. And yes, there ARE more white people than black people, so it's going to be pretty fucking hard for every sorority to have enough minorities in them to be "diverse". This is a non-story, blown up by PC bullshit. MUCH bigger problems to focus on.
Have y'all noticed that sometime in the past 20 years the definition of "Justice" has become "What I/We want" instead of what is actually justified?
I'm not bothered by the lack of diversity, I frankly don't care that there's a bunch of blondes who formed a social club and think diversity means inviting the brunette, half-Italian girl from their marketing class to pledge. I don't think it's a problem, though, that some people are bothered by that and hold different opinions. Whether it's an issue depends largely on how much importance or seriousness you attach to Greek life, and as such I think it's okay that some people take their fraternities and sororities seriously and believe those groups have an obligation to be inclusive. The only time I think this is a problem, is when large institutions act on every possible whim of the sensitive public. If Alabama pulled the sorority's charter, that's a political correctness problem. If the SJWs descend on the sorority and scream for them to be burned at the stake, that's a problem. If the sorority sees a public perception, would rather not be publicly acknowledged as a club for hot white girls, and they act accordingly... I'm not going to wave my hands much about the political correctness of it all.
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