“Jim Crow was enforced on the black population, not chosen by them.”
So men can choose to use the gym their fees paid for any time the gym is open?
You’re either stupid or you think we’re stupid. Of course segregation doesn’t discriminate against its perpetrators and beneficiaries. It’s the men being thrown off the bus.
Same-sex hours might’ve been a workable alternative — there are some men out there who I can imagine would be quite embarrassed to work out in the presence of women — but this was never about providing men and women privacy in their workouts. From the beginning this has been about religious thugs reopening a dark chapter of American history simply because in their world the power to intimidate is a marker of respect.
When we pay the price of respecting others by disrespecting ourselves we only pave the road to more demands for surrender of our basic values, more intimidation, and ultimately more terrorism. It’s the “Strong Horse Theory”, an aspect of Muslim culture one must understand in order to effectively respond to their demands. A Weak Horse, by allowing itself to be pushed around, only invites further victimization.
We don’t do Jim Crow because it’s wrong. We don’t do wrong to appease others because we’re the Strong Horse. From our core values, then, comes the appropriate response to religious intimidation.
All these things are interconnected; all these decisions have consequences. Bringing back Jim Crow is wrong and unpatriotic on a multitude of levels, and Harvard’s decision reaches deeper than anyone who made it seems to understand.
