Comments on: It’s Not About Appearances

By: yet another prefrosh, months later

yet another prefrosh, months later — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:23:40 +0000

everyone but trent in this entire thread sucks

seriously

y'all

anti-racism 101

read about it

By: anon

anon — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:00:54 +0000

^ this is why i love wes

By: Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:21:32 +0000

I've been asking myself the same question

By: John Galt

John Galt — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:21:16 +0000

Who am I?

By: another prefrosh

another prefrosh — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:12:27 +0000

i'm with you, prefrosh #1. your post has reassured me of the awesomeness of the people i will be in school with next year though, so thank you. and know you're not alone. you and i and the rest of 2013 will just have to make sure that wes remains/becomes the supportive, open place we expected it to be :)
see you there!

By: Mytheos Holt

Mytheos Holt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:18:21 +0000

"after browsing the wespeaks, it appears that this is a community of arrogant cowards who treat each other like crap over the internet."

Contrary to their name, the "Wespeaks" do not actually speak for Wes.

By: M.

M. — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:51:40 +0000

prefrosh: I sympathize.

As for being "original," there is nothing more ironic than a person who bemoans conformist culture and then proposes the alternative, conforming to being "original."

By: prefrosh

prefrosh — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:15:17 +0000

so i'm going to wes next year. as i intend to write for the argus, i thought i'd get on the website and check it out. much to my dismay, i stumbled across this.

abaye, you are an arrogant jerk. even if you do think you are smarter than someone, that shouldn't entitle you to call that person a fucking moron. any decent human being knows that.

after looking further, it seems this kind of rhetoric is commonplace on this institution called "wespeak." now i am seriously worried about coming to wesleyan this upcoming fall. i applied to wesleyan ED because i thought it was a community of open-minded and accepting individuals. after browsing the wespeaks, it appears that this is a community of arrogant cowards who treat each other like crap over the internet.

By: Varlaster, a simple man

Varlaster, a simple man — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:42:34 +0000

think you missed the point bro

you aren't going to like the wesleyan dermont sees coming any better than he does. more privileged, more insulated, more consumerist, less involved. a weirder wesleyan is going to be a more active one; you didn't have to frame this point as a pedantic take-down of someone on your side

By: Jesse Overall

Jesse Overall — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:03:05 +0000

Agree with Abaye and, earlier, Hannah.

"If you think it’s about being “hyper-sensitive” I would guess you have never confronted the many ways oppression works in our society."

Many of us have, and many of us reached different conclusions about it than you. Oppression sucks; no one denies that, and no one (at least at Wesleyan) is going to just accept it without a struggle. However, what you've described - the 'Aunt Jemima' thing and the "Oriental" label - simply do not strike me as instances of oppression. I'm half-Asian and spent part of my childhood in China; I was walking down the street late at night last week and some drunken teenagers in a minivan yelled "HE'S CHINESE!!!!1!1" and threw a bottle of soda at me. That right there is an example of oppression. The instances you mentioned are not.

My point is this: don't throw words like "racism" and "oppression" around casually and constantly. Save them for when you have to fight the real battles, otherwise you'll lose your credibility.