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...followed the coverage of Jiang's American tour, his facility in avoiding any head-on confrontation started to irk me. Eventually I decided that it wouldn't hurt if Jiang--a man who just last week called the government-sponsored shootings at Tiananmen square "the correct conclusion"--knew what it felt like to be jeered at, and even detested...
...Crimson reporter who wrote this article never asked me if I was gay, so why did she assume I was? Did she think we were really just all gay and that our decision to use the word "queer" was just a politically correct gesture? She wrote that Spectrum was "promoted" as a group for queers of color, as if that's just the way it was "promoted," while in reality it is something else. Spectrum is a group for queers of color, and that is a fact that doesn't need to be placed in quotes...
...analogy, and only as an analogy, let's pretend the headline stated "Gay Black Students Form New Group." This would inspire more than just a debate over what labels ought to be used for minority students in newspapers. It would be wrong. Obviously, "students of color" is the correct term, since not all the students were black...
...educated world uses? The word may be inadequate, but it certainly does a better job than "gay." The editors may find this to be a politically charged word, but so is the phrase "people of color." The fact that some people will always take words that are correct, and call them "politically correct," as a method of implying that they are not really correct, should not deter The Crimson editors from making it a policy to report accurately...
Since I'm sure that's what the editors want to do anyway, I hope you'll start making steps to correct this policy of using "gay" as a toned down code word for "queer." It is wrong factually, as well as limiting, backwards and reductive. --Gowri Ramachandran, GSAS