Students Burn Latina Author's Book

[Xuloqoia]

Or we slash the number of federally-recognized holidays in the United States in half. Personally, the ones I would recommend keeping under such a scheme are:

• New Year’s Day
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Veterans Day
• Thanksgiving Day

Of course, I don't think that this'd be a particularly popular policy, tbqh.

Those are actually pretty agreeable. I would also add Christmas and that's it. Traditional Americana.

I dunno. Having two federal holidays (Christmas Day and New Year's Day) so close to one another feels... off.

[The Fascist Undead]

I love Book Burning. It makes a Great bonfire.

Bible Burning is even greater.

You appear to be posting in-character. This is fine for the RP forums but it looks spammy and baity on General. Reign it in, please

Never, this is my insane personality.

[Bear Stearns]

Those are actually pretty agreeable. I would also add Christmas and that's it. Traditional Americana.

I dunno. Having two federal holidays (Christmas Day and New Year's Day) so close to one another feels... off.

Most people aren't going to be going to work on Christmas anyways and the Christmas/New Years season is the one time when many Americans can get away with a week-long vacation.

[The Fascist Undead]

I dunno. Having two federal holidays (Christmas Day and New Year's Day) so close to one another feels... off.

Most people aren't going to be going to work on Christmas anyways and the Christmas/New Years season is the one time when many Americans can get away with a week-long vacation.

How does this relate to book-burning?

[Katganistan]

Students at a Georgia university burned a Latina author's book after she talked about white privilege at a campus event.

Video showing a group of laughing students gathering around a flaming grill, watching pages of the book "Make Your Home Among Strangers" burn, has been widely shared on social media. The footage was shot shortly after author Jennine Capó Crucet spoke at Georgia Southern University's campus in Statesboro on Wednesday.

Capó Crucet's acclaimed novel tells the story of a young Cuban American girl who is accepted to a prestigious university in the U.S. It has been required reading in some freshman classes at the university.

The book burning came after a white student asked Capó Crucet during a question-and-answer session why she "made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged," the university’s student newspaper, the George-Anne, reported.

“I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,” the student said. “What makes you believe that it’s okay to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we’re taught? I don’t understand what the purpose of this was."

Capó Crucet responded, “I came here because I was invited and I talked about white privilege because it’s a real thing that you are actually benefiting from right now in even asking this question.”

JaQuaylon Taylor, 18, a freshman at the university, told NBC News that the student's question at the talk "threw everybody off ... There was a lot of negativity in that space."

After video of Capó Crucet's book getting torched circulated, the author said in a statement Friday that she had been invited to "give a talk on issues concerning diversity and the college experience, one that expanded on the themes of my novel."

Capó Crucet said that after the student's question, which she said led to students shouting back and forth at each other across the room, she asked faculty to follow up with the student who had posed the question and any others who may be similarly upset, "because a compassionate and continuing conversation needed to occur."

"We weren’t going to answer these questions in one night of discussion," she said in her statement.

Source for more information on the matter: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/geo ... e-n1065396

As for my opinion on this matter, I think it's just disrespectful that these students would burn Crucet's book just because it mentions "white privilege." They're allowed to disagree with her views, but burning her book is taking it too far. Hopefully, this doesn't stop the author from writing more books in the future because of this incident.

What's your opinion NSG? Were the students disrespectful or we're they in the right?

You know who else burned books?
Nazis.

[Bear Stearns]

Students at a Georgia university burned a Latina author's book after she talked about white privilege at a campus event.

Video showing a group of laughing students gathering around a flaming grill, watching pages of the book "Make Your Home Among Strangers" burn, has been widely shared on social media. The footage was shot shortly after author Jennine Capó Crucet spoke at Georgia Southern University's campus in Statesboro on Wednesday.

Capó Crucet's acclaimed novel tells the story of a young Cuban American girl who is accepted to a prestigious university in the U.S. It has been required reading in some freshman classes at the university.

The book burning came after a white student asked Capó Crucet during a question-and-answer session why she "made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged," the university’s student newspaper, the George-Anne, reported.

“I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,” the student said. “What makes you believe that it’s okay to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we’re taught? I don’t understand what the purpose of this was."

Capó Crucet responded, “I came here because I was invited and I talked about white privilege because it’s a real thing that you are actually benefiting from right now in even asking this question.”

JaQuaylon Taylor, 18, a freshman at the university, told NBC News that the student's question at the talk "threw everybody off ... There was a lot of negativity in that space."

After video of Capó Crucet's book getting torched circulated, the author said in a statement Friday that she had been invited to "give a talk on issues concerning diversity and the college experience, one that expanded on the themes of my novel."

Capó Crucet said that after the student's question, which she said led to students shouting back and forth at each other across the room, she asked faculty to follow up with the student who had posed the question and any others who may be similarly upset, "because a compassionate and continuing conversation needed to occur."

"We weren’t going to answer these questions in one night of discussion," she said in her statement.

Source for more information on the matter: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/geo ... e-n1065396

As for my opinion on this matter, I think it's just disrespectful that these students would burn Crucet's book just because it mentions "white privilege." They're allowed to disagree with her views, but burning her book is taking it too far. Hopefully, this doesn't stop the author from writing more books in the future because of this incident.

What's your opinion NSG? Were the students disrespectful or we're they in the right?

You know who else burned books?
Nazis.

Whelp guys the Nazis did it. Pack in boys, time to go home.

[Bear Stearns]

Most people aren't going to be going to work on Christmas anyways and the Christmas/New Years season is the one time when many Americans can get away with a week-long vacation.

How does this relate to book-burning?

It relates to Columbus Day.

[Des-Bal]

You know who else burned books?
Nazis.

You know who else wrote books?
Nazis.

We can just call this a wash I guess.

[Empire of Ur]

You appear to be posting in-character. This is fine for the RP forums but it looks spammy and baity on General. Reign it in, please

Never, this is my insane personality.

Insane Nazi Personality mor like it...

[Bear Stearns]

You know who else burned books?
Nazis.

You know who else wrote books?
Nazis.

We can just call this a wash I guess.

[Empire of Ur]

Students at a Georgia university burned a Latina author's book after she talked about white privilege at a campus event.

Video showing a group of laughing students gathering around a flaming grill, watching pages of the book "Make Your Home Among Strangers" burn, has been widely shared on social media. The footage was shot shortly after author Jennine Capó Crucet spoke at Georgia Southern University's campus in Statesboro on Wednesday.

Capó Crucet's acclaimed novel tells the story of a young Cuban American girl who is accepted to a prestigious university in the U.S. It has been required reading in some freshman classes at the university.

The book burning came after a white student asked Capó Crucet during a question-and-answer session why she "made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged," the university’s student newspaper, the George-Anne, reported.

“I noticed that you made a lot of generalizations about the majority of white people being privileged,” the student said. “What makes you believe that it’s okay to come to a college campus, like this, when we are supposed to be promoting diversity on this campus, which is what we’re taught? I don’t understand what the purpose of this was."

Capó Crucet responded, “I came here because I was invited and I talked about white privilege because it’s a real thing that you are actually benefiting from right now in even asking this question.”

JaQuaylon Taylor, 18, a freshman at the university, told NBC News that the student's question at the talk "threw everybody off ... There was a lot of negativity in that space."

After video of Capó Crucet's book getting torched circulated, the author said in a statement Friday that she had been invited to "give a talk on issues concerning diversity and the college experience, one that expanded on the themes of my novel."

Capó Crucet said that after the student's question, which she said led to students shouting back and forth at each other across the room, she asked faculty to follow up with the student who had posed the question and any others who may be similarly upset, "because a compassionate and continuing conversation needed to occur."

"We weren’t going to answer these questions in one night of discussion," she said in her statement.

Source for more information on the matter: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/geo ... e-n1065396

As for my opinion on this matter, I think it's just disrespectful that these students would burn Crucet's book just because it mentions "white privilege." They're allowed to disagree with her views, but burning her book is taking it too far. Hopefully, this doesn't stop the author from writing more books in the future because of this incident.

What's your opinion NSG? Were the students disrespectful or we're they in the right?

You know who else burned books?
Nazis.

Very true

[Xuloqoia]

I dunno. Having two federal holidays (Christmas Day and New Year's Day) so close to one another feels... off.

Most people aren't going to be going to work on Christmas anyways and the Christmas/New Years season is the one time when many Americans can get away with a week-long vacation.

But "slash the number of holidays by half" sounds better than "remove two-fifths of currently recognized federal holidays", doesn't it?

[Bear Stearns]

Most people aren't going to be going to work on Christmas anyways and the Christmas/New Years season is the one time when many Americans can get away with a week-long vacation.

But "slash the number of holidays by half" sounds better than "remove two-fifths of currently recognized federal holidays", doesn't it?

lol

[The Fascist Undead]

Never, this is my insane personality.

Insane Nazi Personality mor like it...

Nazi? I am a Fascist Undead Nationalist not a German National Socialist.

[Cekoviu]

Or we slash the number of federally-recognized holidays in the United States in half. Personally, the ones I would recommend keeping under such a scheme are:

• New Year’s Day
• Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Veterans Day
• Thanksgiving Day

Of course, I don't think that this'd be a particularly popular policy, tbqh.

Those are actually pretty agreeable. I would also add Christmas and that's it. Traditional Americana.

Christmas is pretty iffy due to its religious association.

[Xuloqoia]

Those are actually pretty agreeable. I would also add Christmas and that's it. Traditional Americana.

Christmas is pretty iffy due to its religious association.

Just make it so that the week or so leading up to New Year's Day is guaranteed off. "New Year's Week", perhaps?

[Cekoviu]

Never, this is my insane personality.

Insane Nazi Personality mor like it...

Sick burn.

Insane Nazi Personality mor like it...

Nazi? I am a Fascist Undead Nationalist not a German National Socialist.

And I'm the anarcho-primitivist queen of Narnia.

[Bear Stearns]

Those are actually pretty agreeable. I would also add Christmas and that's it. Traditional Americana.

Christmas is pretty iffy due to its religious association.

ffs imagine being this touchy. I'm an atheist and even I celebrate Christmas.

[Cekoviu]

Christmas is pretty iffy due to its religious association.

Just make it so that the week or so leading up to New Year's Day is guaranteed off. "New Year's Week", perhaps?

Fuck it, just give everyone the entire months of December and January off. That covers a bunch of religious and cultural holidays as well as MLKJ Day.

[Xuloqoia]

Just make it so that the week or so leading up to New Year's Day is guaranteed off. "New Year's Week", perhaps?

Fuck it, just give everyone the entire months of December and January off. That covers a bunch of religious and cultural holidays as well as MLKJ Day.

I mean, that would be a bad idea overall, but it would be great for me since my birthday is on the 17th of January.

[Cekoviu]

Christmas is pretty iffy due to its religious association.

ffs imagine being this touchy. I'm an atheist and even I celebrate Christmas.

I do too. I'm not offended by people celebrating Christmas, but it is definitely still associated with Christianity and
it being a national holiday could well be considered a violation of the 1st Amendment.

[Cekoviu]

Fuck it, just give everyone the entire months of December and January off. That covers a bunch of religious and cultural holidays as well as MLKJ Day.

I mean, that would be a bad idea overall, but it would be great for me since my birthday is on the 17th of January.

Hell, just give everyone the whole year off and then you cover all of the holidays in one fell swoop.

[Bear Stearns]

I mean, that would be a bad idea overall, but it would be great for me since my birthday is on the 17th of January.

Hell, just give everyone the whole year off and then you cover all of the holidays in one fell swoop.

Make everyone's birthday a holiday.

[Bear Stearns]

ffs imagine being this touchy. I'm an atheist and even I celebrate Christmas.

I do too. I'm not offended by people celebrating Christmas, but it is definitely still associated with Christianity and
it being a national holiday could well be considered a violation of the 1st Amendment.

Other secular countries seem to manage it alright.

[The Fascist Undead]

Hell, just give everyone the whole year off and then you cover all of the holidays in one fell swoop.

Make everyone's birthday a holiday.

The Only day I celebrate is my Deathday.