Posted on 12/11/2014 10:31:29 AM PST by dennisw
In a Dec. 5 op-ed, the president of California State University (CSU) claimed if you are “light skinned” you have “significant unearned privilege” and routinely think less of those who are different than yourself.
In her piece, “Privilege at The Beach,”—referencing the Long Beach area where the school resides—Jane Close Conoley, a white woman herself, asserts that “light skin color and high income levels may attract significant unearned privilege.” Those who qualify for such privilege, often unknowingly exert distrust and “lower expectations of behavior” on those of another skin color.
“Those who are less affluent with darker skin or from other cultures can be targets of micro to macro aggressions, distrust, and low expectations for behavior.” “This privilege can manifest itself in numerous ways that afford automatic trust, deference, and security,” writes Conoley, in the piece first noticed by the Pundit Press. “Those who are less affluent with darker skin or from other cultures can be targets of micro to macro aggressions, distrust, and low expectations for behavior.”
Conoley claims that if a non-white person walks into a department store they may be followed by employees and their presence is often times acknowledged with “suspicion and fear.”
“Those with privilege are often unaware of this discrepancy, as people treat them with respect—as all individuals should be treated,” Conoley writes. “When they enter department stores they are greeted with smiles and offers of help. When they ask questions or request additional service, they are answered cordially. On approach, they are seen as benign.”
“Those without such privilege are thrown, merely by circumstances mainly out of their control, into the opposite context. They may be followed when entering a high-end department store or have their purchasing attempts viewed with suspicion. Others may view their presence or approach with suspicion and fear.”
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Great, my Alma Mater. I just got a call from their alumni organization the other day asking for money. I wish I’d had this article then; I would’ve told the lady to stuff it.
According to the doctrine of political correctness and gender studies the noblest creature on Earth is a militant black lesbian feminist.
Can’t argue that point
Good grief, he’s lighter than I am and I am considered white.
My older brother and my grandfather (deceased) are much darker than this idiot.
“The new color line” by Peter Brimelow has a chapter that goes into detail as to how the Jews were murdered with words long before they were murdered in fact — and he makes an ominous
parallel with what is being said in certain quarters about males.
except on the basketball court.
In Africa do blacks have an unearned privilege?
How about in China,do Chinese have an unearned privilege?
Etc,Etc,Etc
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