Yes, racism and sexism are alive and well in the U.S.A., just so long as you choose the right targets. Same as it's ever been. Few will recognize the irony.

Sadly, the new dark age is upon us. It seems our future is to be either run amok Sharia or run amok political correctness.

Historians, if they exist in the future, will debate the suicide of western civilization, the same as the fall of Rome.

I have concluded that our natural state is tribal. The President is wrong about the "arc of history."

"Barack's Razor," anything Barack states as truth is most likely the opposite.

I want to punch Yasmin...and I'm not a violent person. Personally, I thought the social media editor's response was on the money and shame on CU for throwing her under the bus.

"I have concluded that our natural state is tribal. "

You're right. That's how we evolved, and it is what most of the world's nations, past and present, are based on. There's the often-repeated saying that you can never be French unless you are born in France. It's even more blatant with a lot of African and South American nations. It doesn't work very well for modern society, because tribalism is the root of prejudice and bias.

The Left's conceit is embracing it for themselves, while denying it to others. They don't realize that in a backhanded way, they are doing the others a favor, because it's the others who are embracing the concepts of modernism, while the Left rejects those concepts.

I hope the grad student is smart enough to realize that she should put this event on her resume.

PC/Left/Women's Rights businesses will not hire her but this will gain her points everywhere else.

It reflects that she actually knows how to think and isn't a baby duck ready to follow the other baby ducks over the edge.

The revolution is never interested in fairness or impartiality.

Some day, after they purge all white men, I'll be laughing my own white male ass off at them because they will, hopefully, realize that they've only mislead themselves into believing that white men are the root of their problems.

And, I will NOT lift a single white finger to help them.

"You actively contribute to oppression when you demand high fees from student writers just so you can offset costs." ~ Yasmin Belkhyr

Really? So, offsetting costs is oppression? The printer, papermaker, ink supplier, and typesetter should have voluntarily worked for free? Or been forced to?

This woman is an idiot. That the Columbia Arts Journal acted on her rant says nothing positive about it or Columbia University.

Conan: " . . . says nothing positive about it or Columbia University."

Don't forget it was a professor, Nicholas de Genova, at Columbia University that called for "a million Mogadishus" on US troops.

Professor de Genova also stated that "U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy."

That he was only verbally condemned and not fired from the University back then tells us, really, everything we need to know about Columbia.

Don't forget it was a professor, Nicholas de Genova, at Columbia University that called for "a million Mogadishus" on US troops.

According to Wikipedia, "De Genova is currently writing a book on free speech during wartime in which he will examine the context in which he made his statements regarding the war as well as the pressure he came under in their aftermath."

Wanna bet he'll paint himself as a shining beacon of free speech, speaking truth to power, and equate with censorship and oppression the exercise of free speech by those who criticized him - especially the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, who harshly criticized de Genova's speech. De Genova later said Bollinger had "set himself up as an apologist of war crime and apartheid,” and called upon the university president to resign.

". It doesn't work very well for modern society, because tribalism is the root of prejudice and bias."

Um, biology and evolution is the basis of prejudice and bias. Fear of the other is what kept your ancestors alive long enough to procreate. It's a healthy fear in both the primitive and modern world.
Tribalism as you call it, is just a social system based on those evolutionary selected human traits.

" ... because tribalism is the root of prejudice and bias." Always has been because "tribalism is what kept your ancestors alive long enough to procreate."

"From shooting their enemies with darts and arrows to crushing their skulls and even harvesting body parts as trophies, the ancient foragers of central California engaged in sporadic, and sometimes severe, violence, according to a new archaeological study spanning 5,000 years."

http://westerndigs.org/from-stone-darts-to-dismembered-bodies-new-study-reveals-5000-years-of-violence-in-central-california/

Well, I'm sure they could immunize themselves from criticism next year by picking Ms. Bruce Jenner as one of the judges.

Not really mpetrie98, Jenner is white and still has a dick

Not really mpetrie98, Jenner is white and still has a dick ~ Posted by: lujlp at December 31, 2015 9:38 AM

Yes, but (s)he identifies as a woman and that's what's really important, feelings.

"Um, biology and evolution is the basis of prejudice and bias. Fear of the other is what kept your ancestors alive long enough to procreate. It's a healthy fear in both the primitive and modern world.
Tribalism as you call it, is just a social system based on those evolutionary selected human traits."

Yeah, I know, it served an evolutionary purpose in the primitive world. Trouble is, there's an upper limit to how big a tribe can be, and it's controlled by the fact that Amy often quotes, that the limit for a community where everyone knows each other is about 150 people. Past that size, it becomes a false pretense -- that someone is "safe" just because they resemble me or were born in the area where I was born.