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...professor takes pains to point out that Joseph's views betray "neo-racism," which "is essentially different from old-racism." In Kilson's full explanation, "neo-racism" is "a twisted-neurotic racist virus abroad among some white students--mainly white-ethnic newcomers to the middle classes--and while this neo-racism is essentially different from old-racism, it must be met and fought head-on, and the pressure must be kept on college administrations across the country...
What--any professor might ask if Kilson's letter were a student's paper--does this cryptic sentence mean? Calling neo-racism a twisted-neurotic virus, while vivid, leaves the term undefined. Its essential difference from old-racism evidently has to do with those who propound it, namely "white-ethnic newcomers to the middle class." Could the reference be to Jews (like Joseph) and Catholics (like...
...Crimson--1) report on campus racism conference at Yale, and 2) Glenn Orenstein's letter. The Yale campus-racism conference was very good news, for there is clearly a twisted-neurotic racist virus abroad among some White students--mainly White-ethnic newcomers to the middle classes--and, while this neo-racism is essentially different from old-racism, it must be met and fought head-on, and the pressure must be kept on college administrations across the country. What is especially important about the Yale campus-racism gathering is the upfront role of middle-class Asian-American students in putting...
Orenstein, however, is a bit too polite in characterizing Matthew Joseph's putdown of Jackson as "condescending." I prefer characterizing it as neo-racist. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...column praises the Dartmouth administration for punishing four student journalists whose article sharply criticized a professor. He complains that the students' article reflected an opinion about affirmative action which he does not share, and describes the article as provocative, unfair, illegitimate, profoundly and shockingly insensitive, uncivil, irresponsible, vicious, inflammatory, neo conservative, and racist...