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...insecurity and instability that came to a head last spring has been heightened and renewed this winter,” said Peter K. Bol, the Carswell professor of East Asian languages and civilizations and a former chair of that department...
...committees as views of the Faculty, and not his own. “It is up to the Faculty to vote on the recommendations that it is bringing before itself.” Kirby, who will take over as director of Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, said he would step back next year from the review. “As a Faculty member, of course I will stay interested,” he said, but “I think I’ve done my committee work.” The dean said...
...been said that I support slavery and wish that no progress had ever been made toward equality in civil rights. Why have I been labeled in this unfortunate manner? The simple answer is that I support Spencer’s Gift stores’ right to produce what some Asians have termed offensive and “racist”: a t-shirt that proclaims one should “Hang out” with one’s “Wang out” and depicts a slanty-eyed Asian character...
...great social movements begin, so this one did with an online petition to show just how mad some Asian-Americans (hereafter Asians), were. And they were mad. According to one thoughtful signer, if a non-Asian wears the shirt, “s/he’s just EXTRA racist. But either ways [sic], whoever made/sell/buys the shirt should be shameful of themself! [sic]” Aside from the gripping prose this author employs, I can’t help but notice and wonder how one might be “extra” racist. But more importantly...
...group, in this case with a horrid pun, does not necessarily constitute a malicious attack on that racial group. If you want a t-shirt to be upset about, look at the ones that tell girls to throw stones at boys. If this shirt told people to stone Asians, then it would be something with which to take issue. However, it very benignly tells us to hang out with our Asian friends. I wholeheartedly support more hanging out with “wang out?...