<p>Dartlog:</a> Comic Description (and Pictures)</p>
<p>I support their freedom of speech, but one can't change the fact that some people at Dartmouth still hold racist and sexist views and weren't afraid to make them known through the comic strip.</p>
<p>I thought it was pretty funny.</p>
<p>Well, I'm shocked because these are Dartmouth students who did this. I would be less surprised if someone who doesn't go to an elite school did something like this or found it funny.</p>
<p>Because the comic strip is hard to read, I'll post the dialogue here:</p>
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"Hey, Flex, you hear Dartmouth is outsourcing propaganda?"
"Why? So they can eliminate democracy and fudgepack the board?"
Somewhere in Asia ...
"Bone-y Ram, time for bed!:
"Just finishing my work for Dartmouth Undying, Mommy."
"Don't make me spank you!"
"From the Students to Alumni: 'lawsuit is taking away our abilrity for dialrog'
** don't tell anyone, especially students."
"Who is Bone-y-Ram?"
"Another self proclaimed hooker ... I mean leader."
"Ha ha. Mail order brides were better in 1891."
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<p>Others in the Dartmouth community responded as to why they found the comic strip offensive:</p>
<p>angry</a> asian man</p>
<p>I really don't like it. I believe that it's a reference to the Priya Venkatesan matter (which has generated a lot of jokes besides this one), and that will explain the fact that they're dealing with Asians and women. What they chose to do, however, I disapprove of.</p>
<p>I recognize their right to publish it; I reserve the right to find it offensive and to say so.</p>
<p>After re-reading it I don't really find it to be funny. I couldn't really make out the text and I thought they were talking more about the fraud in the asian countries with them lying about going to ivy's (ex. yale)</p>
<p>I agree with nontraditional. I read about the Priya Venkatesan issue this morning, and while her actions have called for some jokes, this comic strip is pushing it.</p>
<p>Doesn't seem as bad as the one CMU had a few years back in their April Fool's issue.</p>
<p>Carnegie</a> Mellon paper runs racist comic on April Fools Day : Pittsburgh Indymedia</p>
<p>It's in the Dartmouth Review-what would you expect?</p>
<p>This thread could also be titled "Poorly written, crudely drawn comic strip in The Dartmouth newspaper". That comic really sucked.</p>
<p>Beyond the racist content, I've got to say the comic offends my eyes... is a 5th grader the best comic artist they can find?</p>
<p>It's a comic in a college paper. The fact that it's the paper of an "elite" school doesn't change the fact that most college students have idiotic senses of humor.</p>
<p>Honestly, stereotypes are stereotypes. The people who get upset over them have something stuck up their fudgepacked hole. Although I must admit, I can't believe such a crappy artist got hired. I could draw better than that from the age of 2.</p>
<p>OK, some things need to be cleared up.</p>
<p>First off, the comic (BarFlex) was in The Dartmouth, the campus daily, NOT the Dartmouth Review. Dartlog is run by the Dartmouth Review, and it is generally a pretty good place to get the news on the Dartmouth campus.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the comic is NOT in reference to the mess with (former) Prof. Priya Venkatesan, since it was published before the proposed lawsuit was made public. Rather, it is in reference to the efforts of students to gain support on either side of the lawsuit brought by the Association of Alumni against the College in response to the Board of Trustees' decision to add chairs to the Board, destroying the parity between appointed and alumni-elected trustees that's existed for over 100 years.</p>
<p>The main and shocking objection, besides the racism, is the use of a perversion of a student's name in an extremely negative context.</p>
<p>The comic has been discontinued in the D.</p>
<p>The comic was in bad taste, but certainly does not represent the views on the matter by the majority of campus. Racists and sexists exist on every college campus.</p>
<p>Xanthom, stereotypes should be fought, not perpetuated.</p>
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How do you know that most college students have "idiotic senses of humor"? From my observation, there are fewer people at elite schools with such.</p>
<p>^^^^^not true at all</p>
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Xanthom, stereotypes should be fought, not perpetuated.
I know humans and I know how they act. World peace and elimination of stereotypes are impossible dreams. I agree that stereotypes should be fought to the extent that they don't cause anyone significant harm, but beyond that it is useless and impractical because it is natural human behavior to categorize things as a means of simplification, even if the categorizations are not 100% accurate (and, of course, they never are ... and since everyone realizes this, there's no use in getting upset over it except in the case where it leads to significant harm, as mentioned).</p>
<p>Edit:
How do you know that most college students have "idiotic senses of humor"? From my observation, there are fewer people at elite schools with such.
1) What counts as idiotic humor is entirely subjective, so it is irrational to make any definitive statement about who has or does not have an "idiotic" sense of humor.
2) Unless you have a detailed analysis on every person that ever attended a school since the beginning of time, your observations are unauthoritative.
3) You're stereotyping students who come from "elite schools" and "schools with more intelligent students": pretty hypocritical coming from someone who believes "stereotypes should be fought".
4) You haven't explained how racism and sexism correlate with intelligence.
5) I think you would defend less your position that "schools with more intelligent students have fewer [racist and sexist people]" if you learned about the [url="<a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515779%22%5Dracial">http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515779"]racial</a> discrimination that often occurs in admissions to elite schools<a href="assuming%20Harvard%20is%20generally%20a%20school%20with%20relatively%20more%20%22intelligent%22%20students%20%5Bas%20agreed%20by%20the%20majority%5D%20than%20the%20vast%20majority%20of%20other%20schools%20in%20the%20US">/url</a> (and again, such racial discrimination is natural).</p>
<p>1) I wasn't making a definitive statement. I noted it was based on observation.
2) See above. Also, I wasn't claiming authority to that statement. And neither can you with yours.
3) No, I'm not. Students at elite schools are generally more intelligent because of the qualifications that got them there. That's a fact. Also see #4.
4) Why</a> Do Racists have Low IQs?
Just think about it though: Racism and sexism don't make sense. Holding onto these views when they can't be intellectually defended suggests the person holding such views is not intellectually sound.
5) You're talking about institutions. I'm talking about students at the schools.</p>
<p>I never said it's possibly to eliminate stereotypes. Just as oppression is seemingly impossible to eliminate, we must fight them. Don't put words into my mouth.</p>