I am not going to launch into a moral tirade about this. I will not accuse them of lying to the campus or soiling my good name. I am not doing this because I feel like I deserve credit for my article and, truth  be told, I would almost rather that I had not put my name on it to begin with (the one thing that the Ampersand got right was that I have indeed received several very vocal objections to my article). What I resent, however, is that in taking credit for my Wespeak, they have completely neutralized my original criticisms without actually responding to any of them. By saying that they had written the article, it freed them of the obligation of defending themselves. And not only did they not answer my criticisms, but they went on to fill the rest of the page with just the type of aggressively offensive material that I had objected to in the first place. 

I realize that I am probably in a minority on this campus, but I also feel like there are a number of people out there who are offended by the Ampersand but just don’t think that it is worth it to speak up. The anti-PC backlash at this campus has reached such grand proportions that people are afraid to take any serious political or ethical stances. That being said, I don’t want to pick a fight with the Ampersand. I am sure that that is a fight that I would eventually lose (at least in the all-important forum of public opinion). I have said my piece, and they are welcome to respond to my objections - either in the Ampersand or to me personally. I don’t think that this issue is important enough to waste any more space on the Wespeaks page. All I ask is that in the future they leave me out of their smug, self-obsessed little games.