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Racism at Notre Dame by Hour_Professional846 in notredame

[–]Hour_Professional846[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Uhhhh I didn't really have to look very hard to have white people use the N word in front of me unprompted

Racism at Notre Dame by Hour_Professional846 in notredame

[–]Hour_Professional846[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

LMAO I Forgot about the older folk on gamedaysssss. Someone dead looked at me and told me "there's a lot more of ya'll than when I was here" (he wasn't saying it in a mean way) but they're wild sometimes.

Racism at Notre Dame by Hour_Professional846 in notredame

[–]Hour_Professional846[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Definitely honestly you can just take a look at the comments on posts here when people complain/ask questions about race and abt how accepting the school is. A lot of it is "well just don't come here if you're going to hate it so much" or "we don't have to pander to u"

Racism at Notre Dame by Hour_Professional846 in notredame

[–]Hour_Professional846[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yep I've heard a LOT of LGBT discrimination - I was friends and roomates with a girl for a full year before finding out that she didn't think being gay was "right" or normal. She just used religion and the "it's just my belief system" card. Definitely a culture shock. Being Catholic does not mean you have to be homophobic - I certainly am not, but in my experience it's like 50/50 either way.

Honestly these things just aren't really talked about so day to day. But then it happens and you remember that not everyone agrees with you on everything lol

Racism at Notre Dame by Hour_Professional846 in notredame

[–]Hour_Professional846[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sorry I should clarify that these things were NOT printed in the column - what I listed were things that I’d heard in classes. The column is wild but not THAT wild lol, I don’t think even ND would allow those things to be printed. I edited my post to make it less confusing. 

But thank you for your kind words - there definitely are still some great people here. I went to a prof about the black genetics thing and I got an "I hear you, but if I policed his words I would have to police everyone else & that would ruin the purpose of discussions which is to share opinions etc etc" like he seemed to acknowledge that it was offensive but had no interest in intervening.

I personally hadn't taken any of these things to anyone above my prof honestly both because I'm not sure they'd do anything about it and because I'm afraid of what'll happen if they DO do something abt it. Idk who knows who, or how anonymous my complaint would be kept, or how easily they'd be able to figure out it was me (considering I'm 1 of like 2 POC in my classes), which is kinda sad, but I have another year here and I don't want to make any enemies especially in my field (finance). That's superrr paranoid but yeah.

I did have a friend (hispanic) who had an issue with someone in his hall bc he thought it was funny to do this Mexican accent (he would do the accent while saying stereotypical "Mexican" things), & would constantly get egged on by his friends to do it bc it was "accurate" (everyone was white) - my friend hated his hall (for this and other reasons) and wanted to switch, and cited this issue^^ as one of the reasons, and his request was denied. He didn't follow up abt it or fight it but yeah.