Not Diverse
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wrote on 9 Sept 2020, 23:07 last edited by
Some of the murals
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 00:06 last edited by
lmao. They should have been painted over long ago. They look like a 4 year old painted them.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 00:08 last edited by
Jesus...
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 00:55 last edited by
@George-K said in Not Diverse:
Jesus...
He’s not allowed, either...
Unless you mean Jesus (hay-zus).
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 01:03 last edited by
This country, maybe the whole world, is doomed
“I have received complaints about the murals that portray a very homogeneous population predominately the persons painted and depicted on the wall are predominantly white and that does not represent who our institution is today,” Collins said. “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”
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This country, maybe the whole world, is doomed
“I have received complaints about the murals that portray a very homogeneous population predominately the persons painted and depicted on the wall are predominantly white and that does not represent who our institution is today,” Collins said. “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”
wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 01:05 last edited by@Copper said in Not Diverse:
“Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”
Tell them to sit somewhere else where they can feel comfortable.
Like their parents' basements.
Or, perhaps a crib...with a pacifier.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 01:32 last edited by
@mark said in Not Diverse:
lmao. They should have been painted over long ago. They look like a 4 year old painted them.
Shows what you know.
How about this?
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 01:33 last edited by
Well, jump down turn around
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 01:41 last edited by
90% of the US population in 1950 was white.
I can’t find the racial demographics for Rhode Island in 1950, but I will bet it was even higher.
Those murals are pretty representative ...
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 15:02 last edited by
History is written by the victors.
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90% of the US population in 1950 was white.
I can’t find the racial demographics for Rhode Island in 1950, but I will bet it was even higher.
Those murals are pretty representative ...
wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 15:50 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Not Diverse:
90% of the US population in 1950 was white.
I can’t find the racial demographics for Rhode Island in 1950, but I will bet it was even higher.
Those murals are pretty representative ...
I do think it is somewhat goofy to paint over the murals, but at what point does something like that become history, and when is it just something on the wall?
As you said, the murals were representative of Rhode Island 70 years ago. Why is it a bad thing for someone today to be change that to what is like today?
Why do companies update their logos? Why do people not wear fashion from seventy years ago? Why do menus change in restaurants, and product lines change in stores?
The world is ever changing, and every generation wants to use and put their mark on what things are
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 16:05 last edited by
Organic change is fine. But if it’s a cheap rhetorical power grab it’s not necessarily fine.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 16:25 last edited by
I don't see a problem with painting over the murals. Thankfully, we don't live in the 1950's anymore, despite some people apparently wanting to.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm Mr. fucking PC. Stop your fucking whining already.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 16:29 last edited by
It is PC wankery to attempt to preempt accusations of PC wankery with self accusations of PC wankery.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 16:42 last edited by
Thing is, I'm not Mr. PC, you wanker.
I think it's OK to paint over the murals because in the 50's pretty much everybody was racist, and also because they're shit.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 16:59 last edited by
Pretty much everybody is thinking about skin color and judging people based on it now more than in the 50s. Unless you would care to disagree.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Not Diverse:
90% of the US population in 1950 was white.
I can’t find the racial demographics for Rhode Island in 1950, but I will bet it was even higher.
Those murals are pretty representative ...
I do think it is somewhat goofy to paint over the murals, but at what point does something like that become history, and when is it just something on the wall?
As you said, the murals were representative of Rhode Island 70 years ago. Why is it a bad thing for someone today to be change that to what is like today?
Why do companies update their logos? Why do people not wear fashion from seventy years ago? Why do menus change in restaurants, and product lines change in stores?
The world is ever changing, and every generation wants to use and put their mark on what things are
wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 17:08 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Not Diverse:
@LuFins-Dad said in Not Diverse:
90% of the US population in 1950 was white.
I can’t find the racial demographics for Rhode Island in 1950, but I will bet it was even higher.
Those murals are pretty representative ...
I do think it is somewhat goofy to paint over the murals, but at what point does something like that become history, and when is it just something on the wall?
As you said, the murals were representative of Rhode Island 70 years ago. Why is it a bad thing for someone today to be change that to what is like today?
Why do companies update their logos? Why do people not wear fashion from seventy years ago? Why do menus change in restaurants, and product lines change in stores?
The world is ever changing, and every generation wants to use and put their mark on what things are
I get that and would agree for any other building not named "Memorial Union" that wasn't built and privately paid for to specifically honor WWII and the students and alumni of the University of Rhode Island that served in WWII. Don't want a WWII Memorial Union? Build a new one. Want to set up a display to honor African American and other minority contributions to the war effort? Go for it! But let's not ignore or change history.
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Pretty much everybody is thinking about skin color and judging people based on it now more than in the 50s. Unless you would care to disagree.
wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 17:26 last edited by Doctor Phibes 9 Oct 2020, 17:27@Horace said in Not Diverse:
Pretty much everybody is thinking about skin color and judging people based on it now more than in the 50s. Unless you would care to disagree.
From my admittedly limited knowledge of the period , lots of people were looking the other way back then, but if you read biographies of black jazz musicians of the time (1930's - 1950's), which I have, they were treated like shit. Miles Davis was beaten up by a detective for "loitering" outside the club he was headlining in, Bud Powell suffered life-changing injuries due to a similar assault. Musicians touring the south could not stay in the same hotels as their white counterparts, and Billy Holiday narrowly avoided being lynched by a group of southern gentlemen, her sin being to sing for the white Artie Shaw orchestra. These people should have been honoured, not brutalised.
Whites certainly weren't thinking about it as much as blacks, since it didn't really affect them.
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wrote on 10 Sept 2020, 17:31 last edited by
Now we’re supposed to karmically atone for those things by feeling the feels we should have felt back then for those incidents every time a black person resists a police officer and scares them into deploying violence.