Re: thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last updated 11.21.15)

2015-12-16 Thread dan
David Mandl writes: | Core issues aside (no reasonable person could oppose an anti-racism | movement on campuses), I find the trend toward demanding public | apologies--a "hand-written apology," no less!--kind of bizarre. There | are plenty of reasonable ways to acknowledge and confront racial

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2015-11-24 Thread t byfield
On 23 Nov 2015, at 23:48, John Hopkins wrote: It's Amurika, so if the students can post a letter-writing animation on Vine it will be deemed a massive strategic success ... clicktivism-clacktivism ... demands for everything from a Gaussian grade distribution skewed hard to A+ A A- to

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2015-11-23 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
which country is this coming from? which "nation"? Am 23.11.15 um 06:49 schrieb nettime's_occupant: >< http://www.thedemands.org/ > > >Across the nation, students have risen up to demand an end >to systemic and structural racism on campus. Here are their >demands. > >Note: These demands were

Re: thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last updated 11.21.15)

2015-11-23 Thread David Mandl
Core issues aside (no reasonable person could oppose an anti-racism movement on campuses), I find the trend toward demanding public apologies--a "hand-written apology," no less!--kind of bizarre. There are plenty of reasonable ways to acknowledge and confront racial injustice, but this just seems

thedemands.org: list student protest demands (last updated 11.21.15)

2015-11-22 Thread nettime's_occupant
< http://www.thedemands.org/ > Across the nation, students have risen up to demand an end to systemic and structural racism on campus. Here are their demands. Note: These demands were compiled from protesters across the country. These are living demands and will grow and change as the work grows