Tuesday, October 04, 2005
The Dartmouth Publishes Holocaust Denial
The Dartmouth is the student newspaper—the oldest in the nation—at Dartmouth College. By and large, the ‘D’ is staffed by nice and thoroughly competent people.
There are critiques to be made, of course. The paper’s coverage of the Noah Riner embroilment has been stilted and entirely dismissive of the student blogs which identified the issue and first expounded upon it, and then brought it to national attention. In the worst cases—such as a lame cartoon depicting a bong-hitting Jesus Christ—the coverage has been downright sophomoric.
Last Friday, however, The Dartmouth published a reaction to the Riner speech that was not only universally offensive, but was dangerous and beyond the pale of decency, satire or not.
In it, Neel Shah offers an alternative address to the class of 2009. The article is headlined ‘For The Freshmeat’ and is sub-headlined ‘Neel Shah ‘05 Was So Dartmouth.’
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The highlighted text is: “Can you believe there are still people out there who believe Jesus Christ was a real person? Probably the same [re]tards that think the Holocaust was real.”
The remark about the Holocaust being a myth was expurgated from the online version of this article. No correction or apology was made.
Also: Dartmouth itself has also made no statement on the issue, even though The Dartmouth has its offices in a College building and its website is hosted by the College’s main servers.
It will be interesting to see if any apology is made.
Posted on October 4, 2005 06:16 AM. Permalink 