March 03, 2005
YCT, Hunting, and Activism
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
If you were wondering what all the hullabloo was about today on campus, the Aus-American Statesman is leading with an article and video on what happened today on campus.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at March 3, 2005 01:29 AM
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To answer YCT chairwoman Lauren Conner's question posed in the Statesman article as to how the UNT event was dehumanizing:
It involved the hunting of human beings.
Sounds dehumanizing to me.
They were hunting human beings?
I thought they were just staging a mock round up of undocumented immigrants.
Ah, how I miss the West Mall...
Two points:
1) The event at UNT was deeply deplorable. While we need to defend always freedom of expression, there are good and bad ways to do it. This is obviously not a positive one.
2) The YCT-UT group didn't incur in any practice of this sort, as we can read from the report and as their officials had communicated the day before. It is apparent that someone spread the information that the YCT were planning to do this with the objective of creating a confrontation.
Ryan, Good to see you around these parts. Nice picture by the way. Also, get in touch with me about the GLBTAAA, I would like to work with you and Jan Carroll about it's future.
-yct was planning it, they just dropped it. Texas Independence day was a convenient cover. They were having conversations regarding the event as late as the day before with UT staffers in the SSB.
To respond to Gringo Salado -- sure, it involved the mock hunting of human beings. What kind of message does that send? Whether real or fake, it's still dehumanizing.
(...and Karl-Thomas, I'll be in touch. Thanks.)
