Posted on 03/24/2017 6:54:40 AM PDT by C19fan
Since there’s an apparent dearth of teachings on American campuses these days regarding the marginalization and/or privilege of folks based on race, gender, and sexuality, the North Carolina State Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity played host to its “Tunnel of Oppression” event Tuesday through today.
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Posters said that “black people can’t be racist,” that “there is no such thing as being colorblind,” and one stated that using the term “African-American” is “borderline racist”: “It turns out if you’re too worried about political correctness to say ‘black,’ odds are you secretly just want to call us n— anyway.”
“Black people can’t be racist.”
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to define the rules so that your side could never lose?
If the black “rights” movement can redfine reality so that they are eternally blameless, then whites can just as logically declare that white people cannot be accused of having “privilege.”
Why not? Because we said so.
Math, physics, business, history, the various engineering disciplines, etc., are boring but subjects related to the “North Carolina State Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity” - now there’s something newsworthy.
To paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke, you don’t get headlines by saying, “Thousands of math, engineering, and computer science majors went to class and then back to their rooms to study.”
and every slight you get in life is NOT due to your color - NO ONE gets through life without some negativity - slights, discrimination. It’s not all “racist” - it’s LIFE. Or. as the BiBLE says: “ He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.I” If you can’t handle it, take your crayons and go sit in the corner.
NC is the California of the South. I had to get out of that crazy liberal state. When I lived in the Raleigh area, I had Yankee carpet-baggers living all around me, all voting for Democrats and socialism. One of my neighbors (according to my kids) was always saying, “What’s what hillbilly doing now?” when I would work on my garden plot.
It must be terrible oppresion, “ when you often don’t see it “. How dumb can people be.
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