Thursday, September 05, 2002Diversity is Muskets, Rifles, and PistolsNR's Dave Kopel on The University of Wisconsin's refusal to allow the West Virginia Mountaineer, a sports mascot, to fire his (unloaded) musket:"[D]iversity" also includes people who do diverse things � such as the approximately 50 percent of the American population which participates in America's culture of responsible firearms use and ownership.Of course, this wouldn't be the issue at Dartmouth. The nascent (last I saw) Southern Society or some such group would probably protest the whole thing as being insensitive to "mountain-dwelling peoples" and as promoting "demeaning regional stereotypes." Unrelated: Heard from several sources last month: "'Racist': the new 'faggot.'" Unfortunately true. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:29 PM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
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