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Readers mount verbal assault
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Friday, March 2, 2007
In response to "Dean of Students office prioritizes safety" by Lori Berquam:
"I would like to respond …" It's funny how Lori Berquam starts this entire article with that statement. All the ODOS has done this entire year and a half is respond. There has been nothing proactive about their actions. Instead of prevention of assault, they respond to the incident after the damage is already done.
In response to "Globalization merits dialogue" by Rob Rossmeissl:
Mr. Rossmeissl, why do you think so many people are against globalization? It's too much power in too few hands. That's why most countries are so reluctant to give up their sovereignty. It's for everyone's benefit that we stay separate. Considering that you and your friends were drunk while pondering this thought is impressive though.
In response to "Kaplan's remarks not racist" by Gerald Cox:
I was in the class, this is all being taken out of context. If anything he was supporting Hmongs and criticizing Wisconsin failure in incorporating them into Northern WI society. Look at all the talk this has stirred! If anything he's remarks helped bring light to a situation. He is not a racist and his remarks were not racist.
I've had Kaplan for a few courses and he is not a racist, and these remarks were completely taken out of context. The initial email describing Kaplan's comments removed the context and intentionally led readers to conclude that Kaplan believes all Hmong are criminals and gangters which is obviously not something Kaplan believes. I feel bad that the student was offended but this student should publicly apologize to Kaplan for clearly misrepresenting his beliefs, the context of the discussion, and ignoring the fact that his effort to integrate cultural differences into the legal process class was designed to argue that the law should be more sensitive to cultural differences.
Especially as a professor, he should not be using terrible, ridiculous, ignorant stereotypes to prove his little point because you know what, to some, it is a terrible, ridiculous, and ignorant way of making a point. That's not to say Kaplan's a racist, but just because he isn't a racist doesn't mean he didn't make ignorant, racist remarks. People make mistakes, he made a mistake, he should apologize, the Hmong student should not have to apologize for being offended (that suggestion just has no merit) and everybody should just learn and move on.
In response to "Dems' promise already broken" by Bassey Etim:
I'm a Democrat who is seriously considering some sort of protest vote for 2008. Doyle has already let me down, and the congressional Democrats have yet to take off the kid gloves with President Bush. Local and national Democratic leaders, beware: 2008 could be a very bad year if you "stay this course."
Bassey, some factual considerations: The horrible, horrible, Frankenstein veto was used by Governor Doyle to restore a $400 million cut to the states public schools. had he not used that tactic, schools across the state would have seen massive and painful cuts AND property taxes would have risen dramatically.
In response to "Budget imperils college aid" by Jennifer Knox:
At least half the people in college should be in a trade school. It would be better for them and better for the country. Too many over-educated, good-for-nothings are being generated by college liberal arts programs. They'll never produce anything but a loud whining sound when they can't find a job to support them in the style to which they feel entitled.
In response to "Political discourse lacking respect" by Mike Hahn:
I read last week's comment's on Mr. Hahn's article on this website. It was quite revolting what some of the people responding to him were saying and implying. That said, Mr. Hahn, what did you expect was going to happen? You wrote a reactionary piece, one that was calling names and throwing around personal insult.
Anonymous (March 2, 2007 @ 9:35am):
Kaplan's lecture was out of his own racism and ignorance. Do you mean that Hmong are the only one who killed and became gangs? Many other countries were flatten with bombs dropped from B-52 killing innocent people including women and children and animals. Are these called killing? What about gangs in other states and counties? If you students do not understand our society, it is useless for you to be in that law class. Kaplan should be fired immediately.
Anonymous (March 2, 2007 @ 10:52am):
Kaplan is racist, no question about it, if anyone that say he's not a racism, that person must be someone relate to him, we're the hmong in WI need an apologiize from him, and he need to do community service with the hmong people to learn our culture
Thank you
Anonymous (March 2, 2007 @ 10:52am):
Americans, kaplan said, he believed,all hmong men's only talent is to kill, and all 2nd generation hmong men end up in gangs and other criminal activities. if this is not a racist remarks, then what is it....
so it is ok to say' white men's only talent is to phuck their own daughter in their own bed in a classroom or a public forum.
Anonymous (March 2, 2007 @ 12:22pm):
Whoever has done the previous three comments is doing the Hmong community a disservice. Allow intelligent people like Kashia to make the bold statements. You're giving the cause a bade name. And that name is unintelligence and bad grammar.
Anonymous (March 2, 2007 @ 1:55pm):
Ashok Kumar should hold a protest.
Anonymous (April 13, 2007 @ 8:55am):
Anyone who says 'Half the people who are in college should be in a trade school' is full of shit. Don't support anti-intellectualism at all.
Anonymous (August 15, 2007 @ 3:05pm):
America and Kaplan cannot possibly be racist. I mean didn't America's forefathers not slaughter hundreds of thousands of Native Americans to take their land to call their own. And then immediately put the undead children, women, and the elderly in concentration camps called reservations. Oh and weren't African Americans slaves to their white masters for over 100 years. And then they continued to die and suffer for Civil Rights after supposedly being free. White Americans can't possibly be gangsters nor killers either, especially in times of peace. No way! I mean the KKK, skinheads, Al Capone, John Gotti, and their offsprings like Shawn Sturtz and Bradley Netwal cannot possibly be ruthless killers. Get real! What the hell am I thinking. They aren't black, Hispanic or Asian. Isn't it great to be white, ignorant and color blind. Bottom line racism and discrimination has absolutely nothing to do with it. Right! Right! Hmong war veterans only know how to kill with US issued firearms and CIA training in honor of democracy, an American ideology? Hmong teens only know how to join gangs that has existed as far back as American history whose own gangs were more murderious, hostile and violent. No way is Kaplan and America racist because they have ignored and disavowed the root of their own evil sins. You gotta love the hypocrisy.
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