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Unless this paper has run similar satires about legacy children, wealthy children, women, Latinos and Native Americans this little dittie is nothing but racist.
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<p>It has. Often. Every issue! Trust me, the Primary Source leaves no group unscathed. They have a precedent. The only thing without precedent is how this is the first time it's been blown to these proportions. I believe that may be due to the fact that this was their most ineffective stab at satire.</p>
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The fact that they focused on one particular subset (that is <10% of the school population) to vent their HYP rejected frustration upon shows that whether they intended it overtly are not, they are racist.
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<p>And for all you non-Tufts people, you have to understand that a big topic on campus this semester is that the yield of accepted black students to the class of 2011 was the lowest ever. This means that although roughly the same amount of black students were accepted as every year before, this year, less accepted black students chose to come to Tufts. The admissions office has been vocal about their attempts to revert the situation for class of 2011; major recruitment efforts targeted at black applicants have been instated. This is why the Primary Source picked black students to target. You have to understand the context.</p>
<p>Again, I think their satire was ineffective and I'm sorry they wrote it. But you have to understand the context.</p>