There was a conversation on a local university subreddit I saw a few days ago about how hazing just keeps happening, no matter how many rules and consequences are in place.
It was suggested that perhaps this means hazing is a structural problem, and that the social hierarchies enforced by the greek life system might have something to do with it. That sentiment was not taken very well (if it was even understood).
I get that it doesn't help that most people's interaction with university in america lasts 4 years when they do it and then 4 years if their kid does it, and that this obfuscates the cycle of Fraternity does shit->fraternity disbanded/kicked off campus-> new fraternity appears or after probation, the original fraternity returns to the house that the corporation that runs the fraternity still fucking owns ->hazing repeats. I also understand that it's a lot easier to see this sort of thing from my perspective of having been at the same university for long enough to have watched this cycle for a full period and a half with a local fraternity.
But still, it feels like liberals are allergic to takes that critique social systems and not individuals. Why is that?
tbh it's been time for a while
There was a conversation on a local university subreddit I saw a few days ago about how hazing just keeps happening, no matter how many rules and consequences are in place.
It was suggested that perhaps this means hazing is a structural problem, and that the social hierarchies enforced by the greek life system might have something to do with it. That sentiment was not taken very well (if it was even understood).
I get that it doesn't help that most people's interaction with university in america lasts 4 years when they do it and then 4 years if their kid does it, and that this obfuscates the cycle of Fraternity does shit->fraternity disbanded/kicked off campus-> new fraternity appears or after probation, the original fraternity returns to the house that the corporation that runs the fraternity still fucking owns ->hazing repeats. I also understand that it's a lot easier to see this sort of thing from my perspective of having been at the same university for long enough to have watched this cycle for a full period and a half with a local fraternity.
But still, it feels like liberals are allergic to takes that critique social systems and not individuals. Why is that?
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sounds great, what are the dues?
Blaming individuals lets them feel like they're helping without inconveniencing them at all