Last week, over one hundred members of our campus community came together to talk about racism and sexism on our campus and beyond. These virtual and in-person meetings were prompted by a series of hateful messages on Yik Yak, an application that allows anonymous postings within a five mile radius. These violent anti-Black and misogynist…
“Better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone” — Bob Dylan, The Times They are A-Changin’ The divisive, ferociously partisan, explosive rhetoric of Lou Dobbs, Juan Williams, and Erick Erickson indeed contributes to the dissolution of society they link to the rise of women wage-earners and breadwinners. Make no mistake: these men effectively disparage…