I understand their circumstances...trust me, you can't read FTP and not. I am just tired of narrowing things down to sub groups. The real issue is universities not treating ALL students equally. For various reasons. I don't want to work on one of those reasons. I want to go to the source and fix it for everyone. But, when you advocate fo…
I understand their circumstances...trust me, you can't read FTP and not. I am just tired of narrowing things down to sub groups. The real issue is universities not treating ALL students equally. For various reasons. I don't want to work on one of those reasons. I want to go to the source and fix it for everyone. But, when you advocate for a specific group, you teach the admins that they only have to worry about people who have a big enough voice.
It just feels like a way to continue to keep us separate. For people to keep self identifying as a narrow group that doesn't necessarily even represent the person they are. To create advocacy groups focused on narrow victories for smaller groups of people, when their goal could easily simply encompass everyone.
I get where you're coming from, and I wish it could work that way. But with the Left so utterly obsessed with group identity at the moment, I'm not sure that such an approach would be at all effective.
I'm not sure how this approach is better. The left already don't see value in Jews. They are only backing off out of fear, not fairness or enlightenment. And because it is such a small group, they don't really have to change much at all anyway. They can still discriminate all they want, just not to that tiny subset of people. And even then, they will still try it when that think the lawyers can't get them.
You have to make them fear any and all discrimination, so they get out of that game entirely. This just plays into their hands. It may be a small number, but there will undoubted be students on these campuses who now feel like the Jewish students get preferred treatment because they have access to lawyers.
I understand their circumstances...trust me, you can't read FTP and not. I am just tired of narrowing things down to sub groups. The real issue is universities not treating ALL students equally. For various reasons. I don't want to work on one of those reasons. I want to go to the source and fix it for everyone. But, when you advocate for a specific group, you teach the admins that they only have to worry about people who have a big enough voice.
It just feels like a way to continue to keep us separate. For people to keep self identifying as a narrow group that doesn't necessarily even represent the person they are. To create advocacy groups focused on narrow victories for smaller groups of people, when their goal could easily simply encompass everyone.
I get where you're coming from, and I wish it could work that way. But with the Left so utterly obsessed with group identity at the moment, I'm not sure that such an approach would be at all effective.
I'm not sure how this approach is better. The left already don't see value in Jews. They are only backing off out of fear, not fairness or enlightenment. And because it is such a small group, they don't really have to change much at all anyway. They can still discriminate all they want, just not to that tiny subset of people. And even then, they will still try it when that think the lawyers can't get them.
You have to make them fear any and all discrimination, so they get out of that game entirely. This just plays into their hands. It may be a small number, but there will undoubted be students on these campuses who now feel like the Jewish students get preferred treatment because they have access to lawyers.