Leftists Demand Firing of Asian Conservative College Paper Editor for “Unsafe” Views

FrontPage Mag ^ | 06/15/2015 | Daniel Greenfield

[SeekAndFind]

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It occurs to me that the people who constantly demand safe spaces are the ones making places unsafe for ^[2]everyone else.

Duke student Jonathan Zhao wrote a column ^[3] on “The Plight of the Black Community” for the Duke Chronicle. It was politically incorrect, but these days what isn’t, in that it noted problems such as single parenthood and welfare dependency and suggested those were the real issues.

Lastly, and perhaps paramount to all other cultural issues, is the pervasive sense of crippling victimhood within the black community. Leaders of the black community, whether nationally like Al Sharpton or locally like the People of Color Caucus, ply the poisonous snake oil of victimhood to blacks, blaming problems on past injustice and racism. While racism certainly exists and past injustices like slavery were undoubtedly evil and a blight on American history, using those two excuses as a crutch keeps the black community stuck in the past and prevents it from moving forward in a constructive manner. As John H. McWhorter, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute who also happens to be black, argues, “the ideology of victimhood… rather than what remains of racism itself, is the biggest obstacle to further black progress in today’s America.”

So the crippling victimhood lobby spoke up and demanded that Zhao be silenced.

“[W]e do not believe students have a protected right to use a student publication meant to serve and represent the Duke community as a platform to proliferate racist stereotypes and misinformation about an entire group of people – a group of people to which the writer does not even belong,” stated the petition, written by a group calling themselves “Concerned and Conscious Duke Students.”

The Constitution and the Supreme Court disagree, but if Hillary gets a few more appointees in there, that will change.

“We are concerned that if Zhao continues as an editor of the opinion column, he will also continue to abuse his position of power to create an unsafe educational environment for marginalized students,” it states. “This is not a question of being ‘politically correct,’ nor is it a matter of censorship. Rather, this is a call to hold The Chronicle’s staff and the content they produce to a higher standard of journalistic ethics.”

It’s not politically correct censorship. It’s just a demand that an editor be censored for his political views.

[freedumb2003]

Zhao should just declare herself to be Black.

[El Cid]

...'a group of people to which the writer does not even belong,'

Probably true. I'm stereotyping, but based on the Editor's name, I presume he is from the 'studies hard' group of people.

[SeekAndFind]

Zhao should just declare herself to be Black.

Well, since you called Jonathan Zhao a "her", he (or she depending on how he might feel at the moment) might as well use that for double protection...

[circlecity]

I note they were not able to refute a single point he made.

[17th Miss Regt]

A twofer! A trans-racial and a trans-sexual! No way they would fire him then!

[bgill]

People of Color Caucus

Since when is beige not a color?

[sport]

They do not even try, they just chant their slogans and talking points.

[Slings and Arrows]

Well, since you called Jonathan Zhao a "her", he (or she depending on how he might feel at the moment) might as well use that for double protection...

In the immortal words of Donald "Duck" Dunn, "If the sh*t fits, wear it!"

[tumblindice]

Comrades, thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime is death.
Let us purge our minds of hurtful, dangerous thoughts. You there in the back!
Brother SeekandFind. I see you smirking. That is facecrime.

As the Great Helmsman once said while swimming in the mighty ....

[G Larry]

Zhao should respond:

“My observations were regarding “predominant factors”, NOT “an entire group of people”.

“My observations were NOT “racist stereotypes”, but simple facts of life.”

“The only people made “unsafe” by my observations are the race baiters, and they have no standing to determine how much free speech I have.”

[Tijeras_Slim]

FYI

[SES1066]

... written by a group calling themselves “Concerned and Conscious Duke Students.

Scenarios like this makes me wonder about counting hands, in this case how many people constitute this 'group' out of how many constitute the entire Duke Student population. Let us face it, modern media HAS GIVEN VOICE to even the single person BUT having that voice does not make it rational to control.

I'd love to see the old Monty Python group show a march of "Easily Offended" people with feelers stretched out for yards ACTIVELY LOOKING for something, anything that they can feel offended by. I am offended by pink cars, they distract me and are thus dangerous to be near me. They must be banned because of this!

FYI: Anyone else find this 'group's title slightly odd? They are concerned and awake? Note: they may be English Majors!

[buwaya]

This is a brilliant plan !
Its about time someone tried it.
And if he doesn’t change his appearance, etc. to suit, counter that by accusing the accusers of stereotyping.
Why cant a black girl be fine looking like an Asian boy ?