News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in private group chat. Parent comment

Re:Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in... by misingnoglic on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @01:00PM (#14498813)
For the record, here are the memes: https://thetab.com/us/2017/06/05/harvard-memes-rescinded-694...

You can't tell me this is at all equivalent to calling someone "gay"

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in... by weberc2 on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:24PM (#14500365)
There are more offensive slurs than "gay", but my point wasn't to make an equivalence, only to say that punishing someone in accordance with a relatively new social norm isn't a universally good idea.
[ Parent | on HN ]