In Wake Of OU Incident, SAE Now Has National Director Of Diversity And Inclusion
Back in March, the video of the OU SAE chant went viral and led to the chapter closing, two students getting expelled, lawsuits, and eventual apologies from the two kids. It was a mess of a situation.
The national fraternity would then announce an initiative to investigate the diversity in their chapters nationwide. Today, they have hired their National Director Of Diversity And Inclusion.
From OU Daily:
Evanston, Illinois-based Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity said in a news release Thursday it had hired North Carolina native Ashlee Canty to help oversee efforts to enhance diversity at the fraternity’s more than 200 chapters.
The position is part of an initiative announced by the fraternity in March.
Hopefully, this will help SAE close the chapter of their book and move on from this.
[via OU Daily]
Image via OU.edu
“Investigate diversity”. What does that even mean
10 years ago at 4:56 pmWell, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
10 years ago at 9:01 pmOrganizations meant to celebrate diversity piss me off. Part of ending racism is ending the acknowledgement of race, both in discrimination and unnecessary celebration
10 years ago at 4:58 pmThat’s great in theory. But because “gentlemen” like those on the bus did and do see race, having a fraternity-wide discussion on getting to that non-racial utopia is a great idea.
10 years ago at 8:28 pmKindly, shut the fuck up.
10 years ago at 9:58 pm…Denzel must be lost
10 years ago at 3:15 amI agree with Denzel if your fraternity is chanting that “there will never be a n***** ΣΑΕ” in fucking 2015 there is something wrong, yes we can appreciate past figures, like Lee for example, for his gentlemanly conduct, loyalty, and idealism and even some parts of the Confederacy for their rebel spirit and hate of big government, but there is one crucial part that we have to put away as a Greek community, racism. Some of you on here think that this all is stupid, and to extant it is, but it didn’t have to come to this. View it instead as OU ΣΑΕ’s and Nationals punishment for being a bunch of ignorant douchedicks. Not to say that all ΣΑΕ’s are like that, hell I think the president of ΣΑΕ at my college is black. All this to say though if you don’t like what ΣΑΕ is doing there’s one simple thing you must do: don’t be a racist asshole
10 years ago at 5:21 am^ yes to this right here. I’m so glad to see this website is finally becoming socially liberal and whites with a separatist mindset are being driven out. It is 2015;white people should stop thinking they can just keep to their supremacism.Liberalism implies multiculturalism which subsequently implies embracing diversity in any shape or form. White exclusivity is evil and needs to be stamped out forever(America’s gonna be brown eventually anyway).It’s great to see us finally taking steps in that direction.
10 years ago at 9:06 amYou seem to be under the impression that inclusivity is a liberal ideal. Kind of like the false dichotomy of good/bad, liberal/conservative, that the media likes to spin.
10 years ago at 9:18 amConservatism by default implies maintenance of the status quo and the right-wing doesn’t value social progression that is aimed at upholding social justice and welfare. In fact,right-wing ideology usually taps into nationalism and traditionalism… The right-wing mostly subscribes to the socially darwinistic model(i.e. hierarchies) in at least some shape or form and therefore it isn’t “inclusive” by definition . What fierce right-wingers do you know that support multiculturalism? There aren’t any.
Liberals however support the idea of a color blind society as part of promoting absolute equality- white people left to their own devices will never,en masse, accept multiculturalism and therefore state management is crucial to make them DO SO.
10 years ago at 9:41 amStfu that’s not what I meant you stupid bitch
10 years ago at 11:46 amHey and what political party fought for slavery? What about Jim Crow laws? Hmmm I think it was Democrats and by your logic of sins of the past being repaid in the present, yes I think all democrats should give all their possessions to all the black people here in the US. Then what party freed the slaves again? Hmmmm
10 years ago at 11:52 amThe two parties pretty much shifted platforms since then,you retarded fuck.
Like i said,america’s gonna be brown anyway so who cares about any reparations- mass ethnic and cultural displacement is wonderful enough on its own.
10 years ago at 4:17 pmI’m sorry, but absolute equality is an absolute fiction. I will never, no matter how hard I work out or practice stick handling, be Gary Gait or Jim Brown. I will never be able to attract the likes of Jennifer Lawrence or even today’s IGBOTD. I will always have a health history that prohibited me from playing football and lacrosse in high school and prevented me from full participation in Army ROTC (and likely will prevent me from enlisting, much less commissioning, altogether).
But enough about me. If you ever read The Other Wes Moore, you’ll notice how two kids, identical in upbringing, ethnicity, and social status, hell, even their names, became completely different people. One became a combat veteran and Rhodes Scholar; the other one became a convicted drug dealer and accessory to murder. If you want total equality, you will not elevate people. You will drive them down. People naturally want to be better. Better naturally implies inequality, does it not? If you want to remove the humanity from people, by all means, make them perfectly identical; houses made of ticky-tacky, all in a row and all that.
Oh, and while we’re on this subject, multiculturalism is a farce. I do not care where your family came from and I never will. You were probably born in America; you may have come here as a child. I do not give a blue fuck. You are an American first and foremost. My family comes primarily from Poland; we do not speak Polish at home nor do we trumpet our background as if it is some great achievement. I believe the majority of the people of this site are Anglo-Saxon or Scots-Irish; I do not see a single post that proclaims loyalty to Britain, the state of Saxony in Germany, or to Ireland or to Scotland. We are American, first and foremost. I do not respect a person who cannot accept this. If you are more attached to the country of your ancestors, why did you leave? I’ll gladly buy you a plane ticket back. I do not care if you are of Mexican descent or if you are of Somalian descent. You are an American. Be proud of it.
Good day, and go fuck yourself sideways with a honey badger.
10 years ago at 7:30 pmWell said, Bluto_Brotarsky
10 years ago at 4:23 pmSo what’s your deal then? Poor little weak kid who couldn’t fight for shit dissing ideology that’s pretty much intended to take his side…peer pressure? Do you feel you gain the “man points” mother nature didn’t bless you with when you side with right-wing supremacists?
Humans “striving” to be better doesn’t imply that inequality is in any way natural. If anything it taps into the theory that not enough welfare is being provided to maximize someone’s happiness and well-being in life. When an individual sets out to do this on his own competition ensues and so other less-abled individuals(like yourself) will suffer. When a government body sets out to provide this, social welfare is achieved in uniformity.
Multiculturalism isn’t farcical at all. Different ethnic groups do tend to abide by different customs within their own communities no matter how much you’d like to deny it(see “black culture”) and furthermore, generally speaking, you will find that said groups tend to gravitate towards those similar to themselves (see “white areas/suburbs)…The problem isn’t any division that might exist between separate groups along ethnic/racial lines. The problem is the white supremacism which provided the very foundations for american society, which consequently established them at the top of the hierarchy with everyone else at the bottom.
Multiculturalism will be embraced when whites are degraded from that station entirely.
10 years ago at 7:55 pm1) At least I had the goddamned dignity to show up. Oh, and it wasn’t because I was weak. It was because I had brain surgery when I was three years old. I’ve taken the APFT. Scored a 279 out of 300, maxed out on pushups and situps but didn’t do too well on the two mile run. That didn’t fucking matter because no doctor is going to sign off on an Infantry contract when you have a central nervous system shunt. So before you call me weak, go ahead and ruck 6 miles with a 70 pound pack before you start breathing hard. And I will go to my grave pissed off knowing that I held myself to the Army’s physical standards and was told that I could not fight, and not for lack of trying.
And just for the record, I finally started playing rugby and lacrosse at the club level in college, and I ended up doing damned well. Doctors’ notes be damned. I will prove myself, and if I die on the field because I took that risk, so be it.
2) Yes. Yes, government-enforced equality is a farce. Because, how is something enforced unless there are hierarchies? You are yourself advocating for a hierarchy that is arbitrarily dictated, and you are so blind and deaf to what you spew that you can’t even realize it. Who appointed you to dictate what is mine and what is not? And believe me, your party has singularly failed in eliminating poverty and yet the poor still overwhelmingly vote Democrat. It is specifically because you target people as victims and transgressors because of what their ancestors did. And you make up for your failure to elevate the black poor by bringing down everyone else. And you’ll betray them too for another’s vote.
3) Ah, finally we get to the bread and butter of this argument. Unfortunately, you undermine your case right away by pointing out how there are separate cultures and that humans are inherently tribal. An inner-city black, a suburbanite Hispanic, and a white from a rural area will all gravitate towards their own people, as you correctly pointed out. However, this is also multiculturalism, and it only highlights the cultural divides between them. I would rather have a singular American culture than a Balkanized hodgepodge of cultures-and sadly, people have confused the figurative melting pot of the former with the metaphorical tossed salad of the latter. In fact, I would go so far as to say that America is best not as multicultural, but as fusionist, because often the cultural divides that we are seeing are insurmountable. We do not need division; we need unity. And if this notional American culture as it is practiced by the majority of Americans of all ethnicities is hateful to you, I encourage you to not be so closed-minded and start seeing the benefits of being one nation rather than many under one flag. For we have already seen the collapse of many multicultural states-Yugoslavia, Austria-Hungary, the Soviet Union, the dissolution of the British Empire, and on and on we go.
10 years ago at 9:56 pmYeah that’s gonna help
10 years ago at 5:00 pmYeah that’s gonna help.
10 years ago at 5:00 pmHeard ya the first time.
10 years ago at 5:23 pmI don’t get it. Why force yourself to rush a fraternity that you don’t feel comfortable with? All this is going to do is make people go under the radar.
10 years ago at 5:13 pmWhat they need is a new National Director of Pledge Education.
10 years ago at 5:14 pmHoly shit haha the fact that a fraternity that got caught for racial slurs still needs a reminder to not be racist…
10 years ago at 5:34 pmHaha
10 years ago at 8:25 pmGood insight, Harrison Lee
10 years ago at 5:38 pmDoes it bother anyone else that they sent a woman?
10 years ago at 6:16 pmLol
10 years ago at 7:16 pm