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They turned away people from a party. From a PARTY. Not a job interview, not a restaurant, not a mortgage lender, not social services. A party. Social discrimi
by vox_mollis 11y ago
They turned away people from a party. From a PARTY. Not a job interview, not a restaurant, not a mortgage lender, not social services. A party.
Social discrimination happens all the time. As a nerd, I've been (back in a time when nerds were shunned) uninvited or turned away from parties plenty of times. Nobody protested on my behalf.
This entire brouhaha over people feeling not-as-popular-as-the-cool-sae-kids is ridiculous. Nobody has a right to social inclusion. The racial angle is a red herring. What happened to these women happens, often worse, to every socially-unpopular person on the planet.
- rayiner 11y agoThey were, allegedly, turned away from a party at a school-sponsored organization (a fraternity) on account of their race.
- tptacek 11y agoIs this a real comparison you are really making? Between discrimination against African Americans and discrimination against nerds?
- vox_mollis 11y agoI am, but only because there's no actual evidence that it was racially-motivated, beyond the feelings of the offended. It smacks to me of, going back to my nerd example, blaming factors outside of my own social ineptitude for not being included for social event X.