The systems were more widely used during the pandemic, when students were encouraged to report on classmates for not wearing masks, said Cherise Trump, executive director of Speech First. The pandemic also coincided with a spike in hate crimes.
At Stanford, students can report a “Protected Identity Harm Incident,” which is defined as conduct targeting an individual or group on the basis of characteristics including race or sexual orientation. The system is meant to “build and maintain a better, safer, and more respectful campus community,” according to the school’s website.
Senior Christian Sanchez, executive vice president of the Associated Students of Stanford University, the student-government group, said the system is necessary and important. Mr. Sanchez, who describes himself as Chicano, said he has bristled in the past when another student has addressed him as “G,” short for gangster.
He has let it roll off his back, he said, but less thick-skinned students should have a path for redress.
“People need to be aware of what they’re saying and who they’re saying it to,” Mr. Sanchez said. “There are a lot of instances of stereotyping, and people should have a resource to report it if they want to.”
:jesse-wtf: i have never heard anyone call someone a G in a derogatory manner. Not only that, I’ve never heard anyone who’s not an old ass man from the hood refer to someone as a G because he thinks they’re a gangster. It’s just a term of endearment
Idk, I'd think it was weird if a white peer called a Chicano one G
Really context dependent.
I’d also be weirded out if a white person called me a G, but maybe that’s just an Ivy League thing because I don’t know any white guys who would say that
I'm a white guy in a profoundly fashy city, so I'd assume they were pulling a variant of "sarcastically referring to a Black person as 'homie'"
this, you're basically calling people hoodlums. if they're studying at college, especially at an ivy league college, they would understandably feel offended.
How many hoodlums have started wars? Now how many Ivy Leaguers?
yeah i mean, my post is not judging the moral quality of either, god knows harvard is the pit of hell where the spawn of satan emerges from. but the implication of a white preppie calling you a "homie" or a "G" is that you don't belong, that your presence is an exception, and that they're going to try to make you feel as unwelcome as they can get away with. like the tame version of someone telling you to "go back to your people".
William the conqueror was arguably essentially a gangster so was Christopher columbus, quite a lot of wars were started by people who were basically gangsters
Hernan Cortez has entered the chat
They didn't live in cities and rob convenience stores, they had armies and shit.
I believe you, however at least in in my experience of the specific places I have lived, it's been pretty common occurrence. I hear it used pretty much regardless of racial lines
That sounds chill as hell
Same here
Why?
No white people I know call each other that, so it would seem racially pointed
I am white and call friends of any race G sometimes
canceled smh
I'd stop thinking it was weird once I realized they were friends, so consider yourself lucky. You're not canceled
Yet.
If you only called hispanic people G it would be weird which is I think what happened here from context
it's a stereotypical way in which caricaturized TV chicanos address each other, so depending on the context, they're driving the comparison to ridiculous TV stereotypes which would be a bit insulting. it's like repeating lines from the simpson's apu at people from india. sometimes i'm so glad i don't have to live in the states lol.
i'm speculating here, but likely it's precisely because it's so prevalent on TV it's grown a bit ridiculous and left the chicano vernacular
We can't ignore the possibility that this guy just woke up from a 30 year long coma.
There are a lot of profs who have not thought a new thought since the 80s