Posted on 09/30/2017 10:50:47 AM PDT by DeweyCA
Pennsylvania State University-Brandywine professor Angela Putman recently asserted in an academic paper that the notion “if I work hard, I can be successful” is merely a product of white ideology, reports Campus Reform.
Angela Putman conducted a study to critique and examine “ideologies within college students’ discourse that are foundational to whiteness.” Her resulting conclusion published on Thursday was that “meritocracy”, or the belief that people should rise based on the fruits of their own labor, is a "white ideology." In her mind, this "white ideology" is unfortunately widely accepted in academia.
But, Professor Putman argues that professors can change this "ideology" by teaching students “how racism and whiteness function in various contexts, the powerful influence of systems and institutions, and the pervasiveness of whiteness ideologies within the United States.”
Putman believes that it is somehow a bad thing to teach students personal responsibility. Emphasizing a collectivist mindset, Putman puts forth the idea that Americans are falsely "socialized to believe that we got to where we are… because of our own individual efforts.”
This “ideology” she says, perpetuates whiteness and racism throughout society. Once students learn more about "white ideology," they will hopefully “resist perpetuating and reifying whiteness through their own discourse and interactions,” and challenge systemic “manifestations of racism and whiteness.”
Until students learn the hidden dangers of believing in the value of hard-work and a positive attitude, “whiteness ideologies may be reproduced through a general acceptance and unchallenging of norms, as well as through everyday discourse from a wide variety of racial positionalities.”
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Putman did not say how she would be grading students in the future. According to her theory, grading based on their merits and test scores would be a perpetuation of white ideological privilege.
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Beauty may only be skin deep...
But UGLY goes all the way to their endarkened souls.
LMAO!I used to live in Philthadelphia,and I am sorry to say, as President Trump articulated,"YOUR WRONG!".
All these idiots want to do away with merit. They want a society where rewards are dolled out by a small group of elite politicians and academics solely on the basis of loyalty to the nanny state. This is totalitarianism of the worst kind and it is exactly where they want to go.
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his need".
Everyone gets the same reward.
Except, of course, those who "teach and guide" us. They will receive rewards commensurate with their rank and their contribution to the peoples administration.
After all, the party is the bedrock of human society. Therefore officers of the party are entitled to additional comforts.
Remember, to these people, these revolutionary Marxists, racial division is not a problem to be solved. It is to be exploited in furtherance of the march to revolution.
True!
Thanks for the acknowledgement.
Now I have to get back to work. Hard work.
“White ideology”?
Are you TRYING to make people think ideology is some kind of BAD thing? < /sarcasm >
“Her resulting conclusion published on Thursday was that “meritocracy”, or the belief that people should rise based on the fruits of their own labor, is a “white ideology.”
The concept of working hard and being promoted based on your accomplishments is racist and white ideology because these values conflict with the culture of blackness. I wonder how the so called professor believes the hiring and promotions should be handled? Maybe she thinks it should be handled by a lottery system. Everyone puts their names in a hat? Of course blacks and women get to put their names in twice to counter historical bias. Seems fair.
How’d we get so many in our society with such defective genes? Was it all the drugs, prescribed and unprescribed?
These lunatics are educating our youth, infecting them with their insanity.
“No society can survive this level of stupidity”. Mark Steyn
Tell that to Clarence Thomas’s grandpa.
“Angela Putman recently asserted in an academic paper that the notion “if I work hard, I can be successful” is merely a product of white ideology”
Um....what about Asians and their work ethic? Are they all white now?
This professor attacking white people is a racist
“As part of their big lie, progressives like to convey the impressions that…racism is somehow an intrinsic feature of American history, that it’s somehow part of the American psyche, and that it goes all the way back to the American founding.” (The Big Lie, Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, Dinesh D’Souza, p. 131)
The truth is that,
“…the racism of the Democrats actually shaped and influenced the policies of Nazi Germany.” It was Democrats who “denied the full humanity of black people” and through the early KKK unleashed orgies of violence against black people “and political opponents. The early Klan…killed just as many white Republicans as it did blacks. Moreover…it was also anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic---as evidenced by its 1915 lynching of Leo Frank…Only the anti-Semitism of the Nazi era matches the racism of the Democrats.” (The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, Dinesh D’Souza, pp. 118, 130, 132, 134)
“This pattern reveals an unspeakable truth about today’s academy: White academics secretly hold blacks in contempt. There really is a bigotry of low expectations. Deep down, whites realize that Cornel West and his fellow fools are doing the best they can, and that pushing them to do real scholarship only hinders faculty diversity. Recall when Harvard President Larry Summers told Professor West to end his hip-hop career and do serious research. Prof. West left Harvard in a huff and went to more open-minded Princeton.”
https://www.amren.com/news/2015/09/black-professors-gone-wild/
According to this poll, it’s Asians and HIspanics who believe in hard work, Blacks who don’t, and Whites in between:
I get it.
Well, that certainly explains why Africa has always been such a giant s-hole.
According to this poll, fewer Americans today believe there are opportunities to get ahead, than in the past.
Then what, pray tell, is “Asian ideology”?
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