'Tunnel of Oppression' sheds light on prejudices

The Daily ^ | 02/08/06 | Meghan Peters

[martin_fierro]

'Tunnel of Oppression' sheds light on prejudices

They'll tell you it's a colon demonstration.

[CaptRon]

Well, that's just stupid!

[retrokitten]

South Park ping!

[LanPB01]

When I was an RA at U of L, I had to participate in a program where we were divided into groups of four and assigned a "victim" status. I got labelled as a homo. I didn't really come out of the program feeling more tolerant, only angry that I didn't get to act as one of the cool victims, like a lesbian trapped in a man's body. That would have been fun.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings Milhous:

They need to raise awareness about issues such as Christophobia, Leftist privilege, and conservative inequality on college campuses.

And perhaps they'll finally address the military-phobia epidemic.

Cheers,
OLA

[TheBigB]

"You have just walked through a full-size representation of the human colon. So tell me...

Did you like it in the @$$?"

[NRA1995]

Looks like a cutaway view of a hemmorhoid big enough for someone to stand in?

[Tijeras_Slim]

"I like how they integrated media," said Laura Knudsen, a junior. "It made it more interactive."

'Bout Time.

[ConservativeMind]

We should respect people as people and not expect more than that.

We can offer forbearance for those with whom we disagree, although we may encourage change toward our position in time This is not the same as "tolerance", which says I am fine with your wrong position. Tolerance should only be allowed for those positions in which two rational people hold differing yet rather equally logical views (i.e. - Either "red" or "blue" could be argued to be the "best" color).

For positions that are hazardous or diametrically opposed to one's own truly rational view, I see no problem with actively offending another. That, within certain limits, is part of free speech.

[headsonpikes]

This 'Tunnel of Oppression' seems to be a perfect analogue of the hazing that rookie athletes endure - only it's for freshman recruits to the Party of PCness.

[YoungCurmudgeon]

"I wanna go again! I wanna go again!"

[Richard Axtell]

There is only one form of oppression on display here, one that those who organized this "event" will never recognize or understand, as they are the oppressors. That form of oppression is the same one students at the University level have had to endure for more than 30 years: "Political Corectness".

[wbill]

Phew. And I thought that my tax dollars were being wasted.

[AmericanChef]

Where's the "Liberalism is a Mental Disease" sign?? Clearly they've oppressed us. Who can I sue?

[EveningStar]

ping!

[Mr. Blonde]

Other exhibits incorporated multimedia presentations including the white privilege room, which played the 2005 film Crash.

Did I miss the point of Crash or did they? Because I don't think it had to do with White Privilege as much as hey guess what everyone can be racist white people didn't corner the market.

[radiohead]

This would be a day I'm not on campus. I'm curious as to what kind of oppression the Tunnel features, but I guess I'll just have to continue living as an oppressed middle-aged black woman. I wonder if there are any signs about the disgusting ageism that is often expressed by these children? Probably not.

Anyway, for those of you unfamiliar w/the UW campus, this display is almost an abberation. When the campus organizations are out trying to get members, present are many, many, religious groups and a very healthy and popular College Republicans. ROTC guys and gals walk around in uniform w/o any problem that I've noticed.

We Huskies aren't all idiots. : )

[B Knotts]

I dream of a world where "Housing and Food Services" provides housing and food services.

[antiRepublicrat]

"Welcome to America, now speak English" was written on the wall of the linguistics oppression room.

Huh? You're in a country, so learn to speak the damn language. I spent 15 years in Germany and didn't expect them to cater to my native language. My various dealings with the government were all in German, and it was my problem if there was something I didn't understand. In the early days I felt ashamed when an English-speaking German had to help me out (not that they were there to speak English, I just got lucky that they did).

The only concession to English was products I bought that were sold EU-wide, so they had text for the UK.

We need to go to the Swiss system, where immigrants get kicked out if they can't learn the local language in a reasonable amount of time (conversational, not necessarily fluent).