Poor ladies, didn’t anyone let them know that the college they are attending was founded and funded by GASP white people?
Last summer, two Scripps College students spent approximately 500 hours creating a 217-page “ Unofficial Scripps Survival Guide” intended to help new students acclimate to the college, with lengthy discussions of topics ranging from food and money management to gender identity, race, and privilege.
The authors state that the term “Preferred Gender Pronoun” (PGP) should be replaced with “Gender Pronoun” to avoid offending students whose gender identity differs from their biological sex.
“While it may seem new and positive, PGP is actually not a good thing,” they write. “There’s nothing wrong with Gender Pronouns! However once we say ‘preferred’ we’re invalidating the entire idea. How people identify is how they identify; it is not a ‘preference.’” […]
The Scripps Survival Guide defines “White Privilege” as “the set of unearned benefits white people gain as a result of systematic racism and discrimination” that “benefits even those white people who are disadvantaged by other forms of institutionalized oppression like ableism, classism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.”
The authors add that “asking people of color to educate us about racism,” “asking people of color to absolve us of our guilt,” and “identifying the ways that we are engaging in the perpetuation of white supremacy” are all things that “we need to stop doing right now.” In a section titled “Dear white students,” they elaborate that “[r]everse racism cannot exist because white people maintain power over people of color” and “because there are no institutions that were founded with the intention of discriminating against white people on the basis of their skin [color].”
Since the guide’s publication, several student movements across the Claremont College system (the “5C’s”)—including a “Hurting and Healing” event held by The 5C Students of Color Alliance—have advocated for the creation of racially segregated spaces (called “Safe Spaces”) that are off-limits to white students. […]
“Anger is a legitimate response to oppression,” the authors state in their letter to white people, “as is sadness, fear, frustration, exhaustion, and a general distaste or hatred of white people.”
All that wonderful education … for $50,000 a year.
New and positive? New and positive! What ghastly mistakes might have been made heretofore! Only marvel at the implicitly necessary probabilities of mistakes made at Ravensbrück even prior to Scripps, and all unlearned, undiscovered! Such horrible mistakes misidentifying females before gassing and immolating their bodily selves.
Greetings:
There was a time in my early teens when my father became attached to his verbal concoction that I had become “too smart for my years.” I think that and repeated complimentary doses of his “Next time you see your parents, tell them I said they still have some work to do.” may ameliorate these two students problems a bit.
And I thought public universities were bad.
When I receive solicitations from the University of California for donations, with prepaid envelopes attached, I usually put a news story like this one in the envelope and mail it back to them. Their postage and all that.
And once in a while over the months I get cold calls from students asking me to donate to the alma mater. I am nice with them, they are just doing a job for college money, but I always tell them I won’t even give the campus a “red” cent. And often they chuckle and agree.
There was a time in my early teens when my father became attached to his verbal concoction that I had become “too smart for my years.” I think that and repeated complimentary doses of his “Next time you see your parents, tell them I said they still have some work to do.” may ameliorate these two students problems a bit.
But you are assuming the students are leading this. Nearly always it is the faculty pushing this, and the students who have no shame or stand to profit from this crap then join in.
Somehow my demand for the preferred gender pronoun of “Most Wise and Infallible Overlord” never seems to get any traction.
Interesting if you were mugged by a black man and had a close relative raped by a black man you would be condemn for not liking or fearing black people in general based on these crimes. However, it is OK to hate all white people for things they did not do. This kind of conflicting logic used to destroy computers and androids on Star Trek.
I am not sure about the segregation spaces idea. I think that has been tried before and people did not like it.
Seems to me the only privilege to being white is you get to own all your own failings
–along with everybody else’s.
Double goes for being white and male
Triple goes for being white and male and heterosexual.
Greetings, Curmudgeon: ( @ April 27, 2016 at 11:00 am )
As my favorite Platoon Sergeant taught us so well, when it comes to target selection, it’s close ones first, then the big ones, and then all the rest.
I recall viewing a video by some vlogger called Sargon of Akkad(?) who was dismantling a feminist propaganda video. In it he noted that they kept using the dictionary definition of feminism to pretend many people were “really” feminists but when they started expressing what they believed he noted that they were not following the dictionary definition of feminism.
Here it’s reversed. They have their own special definition of racism created to deny how much they match the dictionary definition of racism.
They’re still racist, no matter how much they try to weasel out of it.
It’s nice that they have someone else to blame for their personal failures. They’re perfect and pure, so it HAS to be someone else’s fault that they’re losers.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Greetings, Curmudgeon: ( @ April 27, 2016 at 11:00 am )
As my favorite Platoon Sergeant taught us so well, when it comes to target selection, it’s close ones first, then the big ones, and then all the rest.
I get you (and I salute you). I just want to cut off the heads of the “academic” snakes.
Where is a non-alcoholic Tailgunner Joe when we need him?
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