They've told you why they are protesting. They did not use any political terms. You have decided to blame it on "identity politics"" (to be fair to you, you only think that because the article you read told you to call it identity politics, your refusal to point out how it's "identity politics" despite my many requests that you do so pretty much proves that).
it actually does dismiss it... completely.... from many angles.
Your initial complaint wanted to stress "students from a prestigious LAW school" these are interior designers... or some other nonsense... your initial complaint only focused on the weinstein defense, but the reality is the petition clearly states an additional reason, one which is very logical.... so even if a law student were supporting this petition, that's not terrible.
You still haven't shown how petitioning against this particular professor even is identity politics. I'm not even sure you know what identity politics is at this point.
You certainly don't know what "top down" means.
It's laughable. Your logical leap is "grass roots petitions from students protesting decisions made by faculty is practically proof that the liberal trigger du jour has trickled down to the students".....
By your logic it rained today... so it's gonna be a really dry summer.
Do better tail. You know... be best.
victor809 wrote:
If you think the protest is anything other than political then you're simply not paying attention.
You don't need the dog to say the words in order to know it's hungry. Sometimes you have to fill in the blanks.
And the grass roots nature does nothing to dismiss the top-down political climate.
Kids get their belief system from their parents, not the other way around. Hell, so many classrooms nowadays are nothing more than petrie dishes to incubate the professor's agenda. If a group of students express a collective opinion it doesn't diminish the influence from the top. I'm sure there are examples where a protest is formed to express disdain for the top, but in those instances it's made very clear. This is not one of those cases.
As for whether it's identity politics? One would have to believe that Harvard doesn't have a culture that fosters the SJW in their students. This is a step forwards, away from the safety of the keyboard. But it appears obvious (to me) that the students are hardly mad the dean will miss a few hours. This is about #MeToo in general, and Weinstein himself specifically.
And I know I could be wrong.
And that would be worthy of a discussion. But your MO is to attack attack attack. Then google sidenotes that are related but unimportant. Then attack again. Rinse. Repeat.
