As he pulled his luggage through downtown New Haven, Conn., a woman handed him a flier describing his new city as crime-ridden and dangerous. It listed alarming local crime statistics and instructed students to “remain on campus,” “avoid public transportation” and “stay off the streets after 8 p.m.” Illustrated with a picture of the Grim Reaper, the flier wished students an ominous “Good luck.”

But perhaps most jarring was the source of the flier, listed plainly in its text: the union that represents Yale’s own campus police.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/nyregion/yale-police-fliers.html

  • Red_Eclipse [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I was raised like this and it fucked me up. Wasn't even allowed to take a walk around the neighborhood because my dad said I might get "kidnapped". Being so extremely sheltered exacerbated my social anxiety and to this day I have a need to hide in my room alone a lot. I think it also kept me with racist and lib beliefs for a while. If daddy doesn't let you see evidence to the contrary, then you believe what he says about "those bad people" and you hide more.