Discrimination
What stood out the most for me, in the Jonah Creighton Harvard Case, was the small amount of people responding to Jonah's concerns. The question that came to mind after reading the "Increasing Tension" section of the case, was "What were the people afraid of?" Or did they just not apathetic to the incident as Jonah was. It is difficult to put your self in someone elses shoes, and then go back 10 years. Its hard for me to understand this case, mainly because I look at peoples actions for merit of who they are. Why should anything else determine our merit? The simples was I can hope to answer my dilemma is by saying the people in this case refused to admit discrimination exhisted, when it was brough in to light they felt little should be done.
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Posted by: zack davis
Posted on: November 7, 2005 12:24 AM
I think that they figured that if they ignored the problem it would just go away because they didn't want to face the issue. I think they figured that they figured that solving the problem would be too difficult and messy for them. This obviously is not a good excuse, but thats how I think that they were able to rationalize not doing anything by reducing the problem in their own minds.