SU overreacting to HillTV

I've read your articles about "Over the Hill" the last few days and feel that everyone is overreacting and no one is seeing the real point in all this. We have become so oversensitive to anything even remotely offensive to minorities that we can no longer even make any kind of jokes. I agree that there is a line to not cross such as using derogatory swears (which HillTV edited out), however making jokes about someone or something is a way of accepting it. Everyone makes jokes about their friends.

There are a ton of racist student groups here at Syracuse, but no one says a thing because they are reverse racist: racism against the white middle class. Do you think a group that caters to a specific race isn't racist? Do you think scholarships given out based solely on race aren't racist? I think it is time we stop overreacting, stop feeling that being a minority is something special and start treating everyone like what they are: people. No one freaks out over jokes about geeks or people with specific hair colors, so why should we freak out over skin colors?

Tim Waterhouse Sophomore electrical engineering and computer science major