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Go Day of Silencers. Do your thing. I think that it is a good and perfectly acceptable way of rebelling against the system.
However, this has lead me to meditate on a few issues I'm currently having with GSA.
1. Yelling at the intolerant for being intolerant. I think that is just shooting yourself in the foot. For black power, sit-ins had a much more powerful effect on society than Black Panthers marching with guns drawn. Hence me appreciating the idea of the Day of Silence. But downright screaming "Intolerant! Uneducated! Ignorant!" causes me to feel that such people are only retracting from the message the group as a whole is trying to present.
2. Students going from classroom to classroom announcing the Day of Silence to classes they are not members of while classtime is in session. If the message was "Prayer at the Pole" Wednesday morning I know for a fact there are members of GSA that would be up-in-arms. Separation of Church and State, etc, so-forth and so-on.
I applaud all of you who are participating in the Day of Silence and wish you the best in changing the world. It will just sadden me if I see silent gloating faces staring self-righteously down upon those they have deemed "less-tolerant and therefore inferior."
What are you doing this for? Your own righteousness or a sincere desire to promote change.
There is can be no mixture of the two. Don't allow the former to completely poison the latter.
However, this has lead me to meditate on a few issues I'm currently having with GSA.
1. Yelling at the intolerant for being intolerant. I think that is just shooting yourself in the foot. For black power, sit-ins had a much more powerful effect on society than Black Panthers marching with guns drawn. Hence me appreciating the idea of the Day of Silence. But downright screaming "Intolerant! Uneducated! Ignorant!" causes me to feel that such people are only retracting from the message the group as a whole is trying to present.
2. Students going from classroom to classroom announcing the Day of Silence to classes they are not members of while classtime is in session. If the message was "Prayer at the Pole" Wednesday morning I know for a fact there are members of GSA that would be up-in-arms. Separation of Church and State, etc, so-forth and so-on.
I applaud all of you who are participating in the Day of Silence and wish you the best in changing the world. It will just sadden me if I see silent gloating faces staring self-righteously down upon those they have deemed "less-tolerant and therefore inferior."
What are you doing this for? Your own righteousness or a sincere desire to promote change.
There is can be no mixture of the two. Don't allow the former to completely poison the latter.