Monday, April 11, 2005
Ummm
Calstuff has some commentary on what Tejas Narechania complains about: SQUELCH! campaign posters which read something like: "Ghandi fucked your mom and went on hunger strike."
Note that Tejas's column doesn't mention that this was part of a wider campaign of (well-known figure) fucked your mom and (something relating to well-known figure).
"These fliers are irresponsible, especially in an election context. If the SQUELCH! Party does get into office, they've already established a poor foundation by disenchanting a number of professors as well as a large sector of the student population," said Academic Affairs Vice President Rocky Gade.
Uh... disenchanting?
In contrast, Andy Ratto said on the Web log Calstuff, that "if the Indian Community think (sic) they can get some type of apology, I wish them good luck ..." The SQUELCH! Party couples their offensiveness with arrogance.
Arrogance is thinking that just because you were offended, the offending party must offer an apology, even though the reason you were offended is because you are easily offended.
What the SQUELCH! Party did isn't exactly wrong, but it's certainly not right. The SQUELCH! fliers did little but provoke division on a campus that is already struggling with problems of understanding and unity.
If this is the kind of thing that can tear divisions in the campus community, it's got a bigger problem than the SQUELCH! party.
That's probably the way Gandhi would have wanted it: quiet, peaceful and effective resistance to those forces which aim to tread upon us.
There are people in the world who are genuinely being tread upon. To compare yourself to them because someone made a flier putting Gandhi in a joke is... um... a joke.
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