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    4 months ago

    I’m not American, but frats etc seem deeply anti social.

    Isn’t it just… Legitimised bullying and exclusion?

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      4 months ago

      i assume it’s to prepare students to life outside, where they will be bullied and excluded

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        4 months ago

        Outside what? School? .because school is where the vast majority if exclusion and bullying takes place into be world… No ody is more experienced with bullying than people for ed to be in schools with eachother.

        The basic premise of what you’re tryna say doesn’t make sense.

    • Dwemthy (he/him)@lemdro.id
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      Ideally it’s a social club. I didn’t plan on joining a fraternity in college, but I was invited to join by friend who were in one. It’s a specifically anti hazing organization and has a leadership education program that we all did that probably would have been really useful if I wasn’t a shit head college student. I still play D&D with friends I made there who I may not have met otherwise.

      Like any social club the culture comes from the members, if you have a bunch of exclusionary bullies then that’s what you get, and that’s all too common.