Posted on 08/28/2005 2:37:52 PM PDT by Crackingham
Montgomery College in Maryland is offering a course on the unbearable lightness of being white. Whiteness Studies is intended to stimulate reflection and research into how people "become white." Please, no Michael Jackson jokes. Please.
"Course participants will look at changing definitions of 'White' or 'Caucasian' over time; examine how people learn the norms, behaviors, and roles of this status; and address tensions of those who feel 'forced to choose' one label or another."
The teacher will be the school's program director of diversity management -- Laura M. White. Yes, White. Her training includes "white privilege" conferences and one titled "What White People Can Do About Racism."
"It is about looking objectively on how whiteness is imposed on you and then how to deal with it," Ms. White said. As opposed to looking subjectively on how it is imposed. Or something.
"Colleges and universities are moving to infuse the entire curriculum with multicultural perspectives," White said. Math and science included.
Look for kinder and gentler integers and isotopes that celebrate diversity. The course probably will reference antebellum terms like quadroon, octoroon and maybe even sextupleoon. Black Irish, too.
But there is so much more to being what we white people call "white." As the course description reminds us, whiteness can be viewed as a powerful social and legal construct put in place over centuries to provide access and leverage for opportunities. It's often taught and reinforced nonverbally and through subtle sanctions for going outside "the rules."
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People give their kids 4 and 5 years of tuition and living expenses to experience that crap.
Translation: No humor allowed. We're joyless, asinine, navel-gazing Leftists.
Only when these ridiculous "subcultures" get over the idiot notion that success makes someone an "Oreo," "White Bread," "Coconut," or "Apple" will these people actually learn what the hell dignity really means.
Contrary to what the Leftists have been selling them, being a victim is not dignified!
>>"Colleges and universities are moving to infuse the entire curriculum with multicultural perspectives," White said. Math and science included.
Stay the H*** out of the math, science, and engineering colleges, thank you very much.
And by "science", I mean real science, and not so-called "sciences" that tend to have "science" in the name, like Political Science.
This is a racist joke and I can't understand how the community would allow it on campus. Being a white male has not afforded me any benefit that I did not earn through hard work, so this program is a lot of racist BS.
Connects to one of my favorite jokes (loosely):
Q: How many feminists does it take to replace a lightbulb?
A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
Q: How many women with PMS does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: NONE! CHANGE IT YOURSELF, YOU LAZY !$&#$**@$%^!!
This is the work of those American men and women, probably all Euro-descendants, who are working as hard as they can to teach us all to hate everything we come from, that is, Europe and Christianity.
THEY are the ones who have the holes in their souls and hate themselves so much that they want us to hate ourselves equally. THAT WAY they won't appear so pathelogically dysfunctional.
They are trying to NORMALIZE racism-against-whites. Normally, these pathetic morons would jump all over the word "white" and start citing the current theory (a true one) that there is no white "race," as we are all descendant from African people who LEFT Africa.
These people hate America and everything we stand for and come from. Know that and you know academia.
You are all the stronger for doing your B.S. all by yourself.
THAT is the double-edged sword of our racist affirmative action. By "helping" minorities and women because they are deemed victims who are incapable of helping themselves, the racist affirmative action KEEPS them dependent and helpless and actually REAFFIRMS the strength, backbone and moral fortitude of people like you, that is, an AmerICAN Euro-male.
"Drew...that boy's a crackahhhhhhhhh!
(Bert Rynolds in the movie, "Deliverence")
great....pay money to be put on a "white" guilt trip.
Psychiatrists are trained to deal with the former, but you need to see a doctor about problems with the latter, and if you have too little, it's best to wear high collar, longsleeve shirts and long trousers or dresses.
I've always thought it absolutely amazing that wherever I've gone to school or worked, I get to know the albinos, dwarves, Eskimos and East Coast Indians of all types rather quickly ~ it's the light skin, certain neurological disorcers, heart arrhythmia.... etc. People want to talk about it ~ and the health problems associated with it.
It'd be nice to find a college course that gave you what you needed to know about "whiteness" when you are young before this doggone tropical sun half the year gave you a disease of some kind.
To think some parent out there somewhere is gonna pay for this crap.
Actually no more than 10 generations in the right latitude.
People become white by spending 1000 generations in an area with less-than-tropical sunlight. There is no other way.
Now, tell me which one is "white"?
A thousand generations will give you all sorts of other identifying features, but for pigment, Nature is brutal and swift.
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