Not long ago I wrote about how both a group of students and the student newspaper at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts are pushing to get “affinity housing” for students (a euphemism for segregated housing). The activist students, grouped together under the rubric of CARENow, have an Instagram site with many of their thoughts and demands. On that site, as well as at this link, appears a list of demands from CARENow addressed to the Trustees of the College (there is also a letter to the President of Williams, Maud Mandel, demanding her response by tomorrow at 5 p.m.)
One of the demands is for segregated housing: housing segregated not just by race, but by sexuality and other “minority characteristics”:
3. Improve community spaces and establish affinity housing for Black, queer, and all other minoritized students.
“Minoritized” is a new word that was coined to emphasize deliberate oppression rather…
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