Oberlin Students Protest Insensitive General Tso's Chicken (1 Viewer)

[xulf]

I'm in agreement with the others saying this is mainly an attempt to get better food in general. However this was the the line I found interesting....

Last week, Oberlin’s black student union issued a list of demands to campus administrators, which include the creation of segregated safe spaces for black students on campus...

I can't open the link at work, but basically the black student union is asking for segregation ?

From the link:

Oberlin College and Conservatory is an unethical institution. From capitalizing on massive labor exploitation across campus, to the Conservatory of Music treating Black and other students of color as less than through its everyday running, Oberlin College unapologetically acts as unethical institution, antithetical to its historical vision. In the 1830s, this school claimed a legacy of supporting its Black students. However, that legacy has amounted to nothing more than a public relations campaign initiated to benefit the image of the institution and not the Africana people it was set out for. Along the same lines stated by UNC Chapel Hill students in their 2015 document “A Collective Response to Anti-Blackness,” you include Black and other students of color in the institution and mark them with the words “equity, inclusion and diversity,” when in fact this institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy. Oberlin College and Conservatory uses the limited number of Black and Brown students to color in its brochures, but then erases us from student life on this campus. You profit off of our accomplishments and invisible labor, yet You expect us to produce personal solutions to institutional incompetencies. We as a College-defined “high risk,” “low income,” “disadvantaged” community should not have to carry the burden of deconstructing the white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist system that we took no part in creating, yet is so deeply embedded in the soil upon which this institution was built

There is a giant list of demands, like a hundred of them. They demand that the school create a second "safe space", that is correct. They also demand that every student take African-themed classes as part of their general education requirements. They demand tenure or tenure-track for a number of professors in the Africana Studies department and a number of other professors. $15/hour minimum wage across campus and $8.20/hour stipend for "black student leaders". They demand the firing of the campus head of security, two campus police officers, an accounts payable supervisor who they believe is racist, the "associate dean of studies" and "vice president for strategic initiatives" for their "grave mishandling of the mental and emotional needs of persons of color", the director of student health and counseling services, and a music professor due to the racist undertones of his class and the fact that his class is rooted in white supremacy.

It's a pretty exhaustive list, actually.

My favorites are the stipend and the renaming of buildings.

 

[roadkill1292]

I'm in agreement with the others saying this is mainly an attempt to get better food in general. However this was the the line I found interesting....

Last week, Oberlin’s black student union issued a list of demands to campus administrators, which include the creation of segregated safe spaces for black students on campus...

I can't open the link at work, but basically the black student union is asking for segregation ?

From the link:

Oberlin College and Conservatory is an unethical institution. From capitalizing on massive labor exploitation across campus, to the Conservatory of Music treating Black and other students of color as less than through its everyday running, Oberlin College unapologetically acts as unethical institution, antithetical to its historical vision. In the 1830s, this school claimed a legacy of supporting its Black students. However, that legacy has amounted to nothing more than a public relations campaign initiated to benefit the image of the institution and not the Africana people it was set out for. Along the same lines stated by UNC Chapel Hill students in their 2015 document “A Collective Response to Anti-Blackness,” you include Black and other students of color in the institution and mark them with the words “equity, inclusion and diversity,” when in fact this institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy. Oberlin College and Conservatory uses the limited number of Black and Brown students to color in its brochures, but then erases us from student life on this campus. You profit off of our accomplishments and invisible labor, yet You expect us to produce personal solutions to institutional incompetencies. We as a College-defined “high risk,” “low income,” “disadvantaged” community should not have to carry the burden of deconstructing the white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist system that we took no part in creating, yet is so deeply embedded in the soil upon which this institution was built

There is a giant list of demands, like a hundred of them. They demand that the school create a second "safe space", that is correct. They also demand that every student take African-themed classes as part of their general education requirements. They demand tenure or tenure-track for a number of professors in the Africana Studies department and a number of other professors. $15/hour minimum wage across campus and $8.20/hour stipend for "black student leaders". They demand the firing of the campus head of security, two campus police officers, an accounts payable supervisor who they believe is racist, the "associate dean of studies" and "vice president for strategic initiatives" for their "grave mishandling of the mental and emotional needs of persons of color", the director of student health and counseling services, and a music professor due to the racist undertones of his class and the fact that his class is rooted in white supremacy.

It's a pretty exhaustive list, actually.

My favorites are the stipend and the renaming of buildings.

To mess with people even better, they should have demanded an odd amount for the stipends, something like $8.27.

 

[Courtjester]

'I'll take Ape ### for $400, Alex."

 

[McGarnicle]

Man, there's nothing I hate more than a cissexist heteropatriarchy.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

General Tso's Chicken is the Appétits.

 

[Galileo]

Eh, kids complaining about crappy food. I complain about the garbage food at the hospital all the time.

Maybe so, but are you organizing protests, making demands, and calling for people to be fired over it?

 

[GroveDiesel]

In their defense, Bon Appetit provided the food when I went to college and it was pretty mediocre. When I went back a few years after graduation, they were using a different vendor and the food was MUCH better.

 

[bakes]

Damnit now I'm gonna go to Pei Wei for lunch.

Make sure you ask for the non-culturally-appropriated version of whatever you order.

White rice?

 

[Mister CIA]

And then?

 

[bakes]

Binghamton University had awesome Gen Tsos chicken. These students should transfer there

It also had a pub with the best cheesesteaks Ive ever had. And of course beer for those that like that sort of thing.

Plus, spiedies.

 

[bakes]

Send them to Clarkson University circa 1980. They would be begging for whatever slop came out of the Oberlin kitchen.

 

[Steve Tasker]

Man, there's nothing I hate more than a cissexist heteropatriarchy.

You're tellin me

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

I'm in agreement with the others saying this is mainly an attempt to get better food in general. However this was the the line I found interesting....

Last week, Oberlins black student union issued a list of demands to campus administrators, which include the creation of segregated safe spaces for black students on campus...

I can't open the link at work, but basically the black student union is asking for segregation ?

From the link:

Oberlin College and Conservatory is an unethical institution. From capitalizing on massive labor exploitation across campus, to the Conservatory of Music treating Black and other students of color as less than through its everyday running, Oberlin College unapologetically acts as unethical institution, antithetical to its historical vision. In the 1830s, this school claimed a legacy of supporting its Black students. However, that legacy has amounted to nothing more than a public relations campaign initiated to benefit the image of the institution and not the Africana people it was set out for. Along the same lines stated by UNC Chapel Hill students in their 2015 document A Collective Response to Anti-Blackness, you include Black and other students of color in the institution and mark them with the words equity, inclusion and diversity, when in fact this institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy. Oberlin College and Conservatory uses the limited number of Black and Brown students to color in its brochures, but then erases us from student life on this campus. You profit off of our accomplishments and invisible labor, yet You expect us to produce personal solutions to institutional incompetencies. We as a College-defined high risk, low income, disadvantaged community should not have to carry the burden of deconstructing the white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalist system that we took no part in creating, yet is so deeply embedded in the soil upon which this institution was built

There is a giant list of demands, like a hundred of them. They demand that the school create a second "safe space", that is correct. They also demand that every student take African-themed classes as part of their general education requirements. They demand tenure or tenure-track for a number of professors in the Africana Studies department and a number of other professors. $15/hour minimum wage across campus and $8.20/hour stipend for "black student leaders". They demand the firing of the campus head of security, two campus police officers, an accounts payable supervisor who they believe is racist, the "associate dean of studies" and "vice president for strategic initiatives" for their "grave mishandling of the mental and emotional needs of persons of color", the director of student health and counseling services, and a music professor due to the racist undertones of his class and the fact that his class is rooted in white supremacy.

It's a pretty exhaustive list, actually.

A stipend? And $15 minimum wage? #### you, students.

 

[The General]

Isn't General Tso's chicken basically chicken McNuggets with some sugary, spicy glaze on it?