Posted on 10/21/2023 10:02:49 AM PDT by Starman417
My wife and I have a kid in college, and she’s taking the mandatory Diversity class. The teacher is an older black woman (not sure if she’s African American, Jamaican American, Polynesian American, or other). Having spent almost all day every day this year researching and writing about Critical Race Theory and Reparations for Slavery, I had certain expectations of the class. Of course, on day one the teacher flat out said that they will not be teaching Critical Race Theory, but the homework and required reading is full of it. That is to say, the required reading teaches certain things and declares them to be truths regardless of how illogical or flat-out stupid these things may be.
The first homework assignment required watching a 5-10minute video set in Papua, New Guinea. In a tall office building, a few guys got together and came up with an idea. It’s sort of like old-school Vaudeville was in the US. The guys wrote little plays with jokes, dancing, singing, and more. The teacher and the required reading had a problem with this. The truth is these little bits of entertainment were little more than live-action commercials, where roving, modern minstrels would tow a trailer out to remote areas and do their advertisement shows for the locals. The phrasing of the class questions made it clear that these minstrels doing live-action Coke commercials for tribesmen were in line with some sort of cultural holocaust.
No joke, reading the literature, hearing the commentary on the video, and reading the homework questions, they made this bs little flatbed trailer with a couple of people in the middle of a remote field in Papua New Guinea, akin to Conquistadors, the British Army marching into a colony, or NAZIs. With all the problems in the world, 8 billion people -most of whom don’t know how to read, have running water, and live far far below the poverty line, this is the problem they were REALLY upset about. Close to nuclear war? Doesn’t matter as long as there are two with a bottle of Coke surrounded by jungle tribesmen in New Guinea. The rhetoric was over the top, and boundless.
The sin that offended the scholars so badly was that greedy imperialists were taking advantage of these tribes. For 9000 years the tribes had lived by foraging in the meanest jungle on the planet. They learned to sustain themselves by growing sweet potatoes, and when they needed to trade with other tribes, they traded in clam shells and pigs. Along comes these Coke capitalists, and now the peaceful, primitive tribes who have lived as one with planet Earth since the last ice age, now they’re being corrupted by the economic imperialists; their resources are somehow stolen by corporate imperialists.
I was the wrong person to ask for help with homework that night. Truth be told, I shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near this class (but God help me I want to attend it just once!). The homework asked about the effect of introducing capitalism and modernity to these ancient peoples. The answer they were looking for was that the people who knew little more about life than how to plant a sweet potato were better off left alone, pure, and uncontaminated by the modern world. I explained how that was the answer they wanted, and then I explained further why it was wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
In reality, all primitive cultures practice capitalism. There is no central government keeping people equal.
My DEI-equivalent class professor in the 90s invented Kwanzaa
...... Would having to learn to understand the basics of another language make the tribesman lose their identity? ......
Ich weiß nicht.
Once upon a time, if an American wanted to get a PhD in science from a great university, he or she was required to learn German and French. My French was never very good, but I passed the language exam. And I learned to speak German fluently—taught by a native speaker who survived WWII.
Nowadays, even science PhDs in the USA are usually monolingual. They’re not as bad off as people who only speak a tribal language, but they are missing something. And if they are taught and accept “DEI”, they are bad off indeed!!
I grew up in three languages. Good for the brain
Wait…I thought this was a Babylon bee post, but she’s not being funny…that’s a real website.
That is so off-the-hook I am surprised the author doesn't 'get it'. Someone at this University appraised the DEI offerings and picked the most obtuse one precisely so the students could mostly ignore it (they would have anyway, but this one is senseless).
In other words, there's no "there" there. This dope should be writing about 5th-graders made to renounce their 'whiteness', and exposing school districts who are still punishing elementary "pubrik skrewel" (Rush's term) systems with this nonsense.
according to the intersectionality chart
black lesbians will rule the world
they are the DIE hat trick
I had to do this every so often when mine were in college—explain what the teacher wanted and then explain the historically accurate facts—and that was 20 years ago.
Cannot imagine dealing with today’s marxist BS.
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