Sexuality-based discrimination results in death of teen

On September 22, Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman jumped to his death after two classmates secretly recorded him making out with another man and posted the video on the Internet.

Tyler isn’t the only one – on September 19, Seth Walsh hung himself from a tree after enduring taunts that he was gay.

And still there are more.

In response to such incidents, Ellen DeGeneres speaks out, urging that we stop discriminating against gays, because “one death is tragic, four is a crisis”

Questions:

A prejudiced society is a society in crisis. Discuss.

Discuss the impacts of the media on the youth of today.

To what extent can the media be used to influence society?

Should universities use positive discrimination to increase diversity?

Affirmative action in education

Task:

Read some of the arguments for and against affirmative action in education, and give your view on the question, “Should universities use positive discrimination to increase diversity?”

Are we born racist?

Do we really live in a “post-racial” society? Studies show that our prejudices have deep psychological roots; they may be wired into our brains. But research has also identified strategies for reducing and even overcoming prejudice. This issue of Greater Good explores how we can put this research into practice.

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