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Sep 08, 2008, 09:22AM

Not-so-hidden racism exposed

This UPenn columnist found out the hard way—via the Internet—that college students can and will act privileged, ignorant and racist.

Normally I wouldn't waste my time perusing a site like Juicy Campus, because it's just a bunch of anonymous kids gossiping and venting anger. But when a fit of boredom recently brought me to the site, I discovered something I never expected.

One of Penn's posts, "Ghetto Tours on Campus," caught my eye. But as I read through the first post, I cringed.

"Anyone else find it utterly amusing and annoying when waves of West Philly kids come around and tour our campus? First, these people have no chance at ever attending our school due to their inability to write their own names, read, or do addition. It's almost like their teachers are bringing them on campus to show them where in the future to set up their enterprise: robbing Penn students."

The main draw of the site is that it's anonymous - all too painfully obvious to me as I wondered who could not only write, but also consciously think, such a thing.

But hold your horses, folks, it gets worse.

The first reply: "haha, so true. especially when i'm minding my business walking to van pelt and then all of a sudden i'm surrounded by 5 teenage nigs on bmx bikes."

Discussion
  • Wasn't Juicy Campus like so LAST March?

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  • i havent seen this at yale, i wonder if it exists. especially when we get those emails from chief perotti telling us about all the times that a poor yalie got mugged by "people on bikes" which is code for "black people".

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  • I'm sure it's at Yale. It's everywhere. The Ivies are no exception. There's nothing to do really, except try to expose these kids to life's complexities...It's what I try to do as a TA at Penn, and the students SHOULD be smart enough to understand, tho, let's be honest, dumb kids go to Ivies all the time...

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