One of the students quoted (not that their doing so is “anecdotal,” mind you ? from what I’ve gathered, only when we and that AM oppressor Jerry Agar do it is it anecdotal) in the Indy‘s cover story on the Vast, Well-Coordinated, Not to Mention Vikingesque Right Wing Conspiracy Sacking UNC had this to say:
“I thought she [Elyse Crystall] had every right to tell Tim this would not be allowed,” say the 21-year-old biology major. “What he said was as bad as calling someone the ‘n’ word.” (Emphasis added.)
Oh, yes, the ‘n’ word. You can’t say that on campus, sort of (footnote 1). Just ask Martha Lamb, the UNC-CH contract professor forced to quit last year for saying the ‘n’ word in a graduate-level social-work class. And she said it while quoting the kind of speech one used to hear in that discipline ? she was trying to show how much more tolerant the discipline had become, because she thought this greater tolerance was a good thing. She wasn’t using it to offend or “be violent,” and she certainly wasn’t condoning such behavior; she was using it to illustrate how far things had come in her experience in the discipline.
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1. Unless it’s in an advertisement for “Afro-Punk: The Rock and Roll [‘N’-word] Experience” at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. You can also see an advertisement for this on page 73 of the Indy, and read more about it on page 76. Caution: I suppose I should warn you not to turn to those pages if you’re on campus and you’re one of those people who can’t help reading aloud …
