Anecdotes and AntidotesClint Alwahab (http://alwahab.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-was-going-to-make-this-post.html)
QuoteMr. Bowen,
Some of the things you have said in this article frighten me. They frighten me because I know there are other people in leadership positions that have the same ideas as you. "We spend way too much time and energy on transgender diversity clauses and way too little time learning how to make money." I'm... I'm sorry, you would rather be making money than attempting to defend an entire culture of people who are facing oppression? (I use the word oppression lightly, the transgender culture is not being lined up against a wall and fire-hosed, but they are being discriminated against and that is oppression.) Your statement makes you sound as if you are more concerned about making money rather than helping out fellow human beings gain simple rights. The next statement made me literally gasp: "I often feel college is more about accepting everyone than it is about learning how to be a successful, productive, hard-working member of society." I have multiple responses to this statement: