See, this is why I hate politics; people never know when to just shut up and let the topic drop.
I’m speaking about the dozen or so e-mail wars that have started since my last blog post. Seriously, one email war was enough, but people just decided to drag it out. At this point, I’m actually embarrassed by the email wars. Yes, having ideas and opinions is good and all, but using them as a club to beat “sense” into your opposition does no one any good and does not reflect well on us. We are Wabash Men, for crying out loud! We can do better than blind, knee-jerked flame wars.
Also, another thing I have noticed is that some people, left and right wing supporters each, have used this opportunity to play the victim card and preach their own political views. This did not start out as an argument over whether gay marriage was right or not. It was an argument over whether or not President Hess had overstepped his power and agreed to something without seeing if the student body would support him. And trying to spin that topic off into an argument about gay marriage is both immature and insulting. I thought Wabash men were intelligent enough to stay on topic and construct a valid argument without resorting to “Woe is me! I’m (not) gay and the entire world is out to get me!” You’re not making yourself sympathetic, you’re making yourself annoying. I would expect that kind of argument from a high school cafeteria or Day 1 of Rhetoric 101 at some other college, not at a place like Wabash.
So yeah, I’m angry that we can’t make original, independent and relevant arguments. But now’s not the time to dwell on that. We need to move on.
Monon week is coming up. We need to be united as a student body so we can go out and beat DePauw. Heck, we need to be united so we can go out and beat Whitman tomorrow. And I’ve got a Zombicide game on Wednesday, and I would rather look forward to that than deal with a bunch of whiny people. There are other things we
need to focus on, and all of us are suffering because some people just want to focus on old news.
So, in the words of Monty Python:
GET ON WITH IT!!!
