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(02/13/18 5:05am)
Since the election of President Donald Trump, some prominent celebrities have publicly voiced their unwillingness to meet with members of the Trump administration. Ellen DeGeneres won’t have Trump on her show. Former UVA star Chris Long refuses to visit the White House after his historic Super Bowl win. Olympic athlete Gus Kenworthy declined to meet with Vice President Mike Pence, and told him to “eat [his] heart out” in an Instagram photo. The internet’s response to these acts of conscientious abstention was predictable, if not unified. Supporters of the Trump administration scoffed and steamed at the nerve of those out-of-touch celebrities. Critics of the Trump administration, meanwhile, applauded the celebrities’ advocacy, praising the bravery required to turn down the equivalent of a dinner date. Now, after taking a step back and viewing this damage, the results of these acts becomes clear — this “resistance” yielded only further division.
(01/31/18 5:47am)
No twist in this latest chapter of the sexual revolution has stirred such mixed emotions amongst sexual assault advocates and the #MeToo movement as “The Humiliation of Aziz Ansari.” The story is less straightforward than previous accounts, and some have claimed that it implicates both parties to a certain extent. The role of women in cases of sexual assault is often overlooked or brushed aside as totally insignificant in comparison to the role of men. This is often valid, and in many situations women are unquestionably victims of a crime. In the Ansari case as well as others, however, it is clear that women have a more complex part to play. Ansari’s story is complex, and is more characteristic of real world sexual interactions — contrasting with the black-and-white scenarios we are often presented with in the media. This sort of nuance ought to inform the policies we devise to deal with the issue of sexual assault, both as a University and as a country.
(11/09/17 3:45am)
On Nov. 1, DREAMers on Grounds hosted a walk-out. Unlike so many modern advocacy movements, this demonstration was not weighed down by intersectional complexities. It was tightly focused on the issue of immigration, triggered by the Trump administration’s rejection of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals plan, or DACA. Some of the attendees were DACA recipients, though they demonstrated not just for “those 800,000 DACA recipients, but for the 11 million people who live in this country’s shadows.” Our nation admittedly finds itself in a rather sad state on the issue of immigration, tightly gridlocked and verging on comically partisan. Meanwhile, those 11 million languish in the resulting indecision. Our past actions have guaranteed that we will not find an easy or universally satisfying solution to this problem — some will lose, and much is at stake. What seems widely ignored, however, is that our past does provide us with valuable lessons. History, in fact, shows us that lax immigration policy often serves political and corporate interests while doing virtually nothing to address the issue of global poverty, even harming our native poor along the way.
(10/30/17 2:37am)
Of all of the strange news stories surrounding the Trump White House at any given time, the forthcoming release of previously classified documents pertaining to the Kennedy assassination immediately captures my imagination. Unfortunately for those expecting a dramatic revision of history, it seems unlikely that these documents will be of great impact to our understanding of that fateful day in Dealey Plaza. The University’s own Larry Sabato — a leading expert on John F. Kennedy — is less worried about what will be released than what might not be, warning that withholding any of this last batch of documents will only provide more fodder for conspiracy theorists going forward. Sabato is also not shy about pointing out President Donald Trump’s open relationship with conspiracy theories. Whether it be by his role in the birther movement, or his appearance on The Alex Jones Show, Trump has cultivated his “ultimate outsider” image by setting himself against this swamp, and subsequently promising to drain it. Adrienne LaFrance’s recent piece in The Atlantic does a great job of illuminating the importance of Trump’s use of conspiracy theories. This particular incident provides us with a unique opportunity to explore the strange phenomena of conspiracy theories. It is important we examine conspiracy theories with rigor and an open mind — such theories thrive on denial and dismissal, and can only be nullified by the truth.
(10/10/17 3:27am)
It is probably no coincidence that I should come to write this piece just as it is beginning to truly feel like fall. Fall, of course, being the most aesthetically pleasing of the four seasons, has a way of bringing out the University’s beauty most spectacularly. The bright leaves settle on the lawn, and the cool, cloudless skies contrast brilliantly against the Rotunda. Admiring such things, however, comes with quite a bit of self-imposed baggage nowadays. One cannot take a tour of the University without learning of the central role of slavery in its construction. One cannot walk past the serpentine walls without imagining the forced laborers who once tended to the gardens. One cannot walk past the statue of Jefferson on the north side of the Rotunda without recalling how recently it was lit by the fire of tiki torches, or how Jefferson’s hands remain stained by a vandal’s red paint, as they have been for weeks now. There is a phrase which that I think well summarizes the palpable discomfort permeating every aspect of our University — “the personal is political.”
(09/27/17 3:32am)
Even prior to the events of those fateful August days in Charlottesville, one could feel a movement of resistance percolating under the surface, waiting to be drawn out by some flashpoint. The movement broke out briefly into the spotlight when President Teresa Sullivan quoted Thomas Jefferson in an email. Earlier, it emerged for a bit longer when the Martese Johnson case gave a greater cause for outrage.