Posted on 01/14/2014 8:04:40 AM PST by madmominct
Speaking as faculty from a community college—You should consider a different school and a different major.
Then effing leave.
I stopped reading at “why can’t we just be humans?”
Well, fine. Except that the leftists are the ones perpetuating the “diversity” and race-hustling nonsense.
More Ethnic Ku Klux Klanning of Whites...
Scary that this Ethnic Mind Cleansing is being done at Multi National Corporations also
If there is so much “privilege” in being white,
why is it that half white half black individuals invariably identify as “black”?
Answer: Because there is inherent advantage in being classified as “black”, both in general society and codified in the law.
I heard that there’s a “one drop” rule, that if a person has a drop of black blood in them, they’ll typically identify themselves as being black.
In a nutshell, why multi-cultural societies are doomed to failure.
Mind you that’s not the same thing as multi-racial.
“If there is so much “privilege” in being white,
why is it that half white half black individuals invariably identify as “black”?”
Probably a result of the fact that was institutionalized through law long, long ago and still part of the way we look at ‘race’ today.
Back when there was real discrimination,
those who could would identify as white
in order to avoid said discrimination.
Thanks...we have a meeting of the minds. People who claim their so-called heritage as what they are then are not true Americans. I say to these people if you have to identify yourself as primarily of some ethnic group, you're a loser. Leave now, and go to some country that likes losers like yourselves. If you can find one.
Are you allowed to identify with all characters in this melo-drama? It is a good expopsition of the entire American experience.
The American dream is “self-determination”, which each and every character speaks to in this transcript.
AKA, “I am somebody!”
I can’t do it. This is work. I started and the frustration builds as I see the direction it’s going. Do your assignment on your own (LOL).
I would work this in to your assignment somehow...
The classification of individuals based on any sociological, ethnic or economic status is inherently racist. It categorizes and divides humans in an effort to measure something AGAINST something else. By its very nature, this process of collecting and reporting statistics is to set a baseline to stereotype for the purposes of prejudging groups and/or classes for the purposes of social justice and legislation. In effect, classifying people is an effort by liberals to find and label victims and oppressors. It is exactly the antithesis of what liberals and democrats claim to “solve” racism or discrimination. The solution to racism is to stop the false victimization of individuals based on their race, religion, economic status, etc. When individuals are recognized for the fruit of their own labor and the actual content of their character instead the diabolical government influence of sympathy and helplessness bestowed by classifications of citizens, a diverse America will flourish in the ingenuity and capability of the individual American spirit.
Biggest mistake this country made was abandoning the “melting pot” in favor of the “tossed salad.”
Yes. Fondue beats veggies any day.
To be white in America, for most of our history is to be in the majority. Take a look at Congress and count the minorities. It will be fewer than 25% of the total. Take a look at the Supreme Court. Take a look at almost any city under 50,000 people. For the most part, they have white majorities.
The reason whites may have no distinction between “white” and “American” is because, in most of our history, we have always been the majority. We write the laws. We determine what is acceptable and what is not.
If you take the same white person and airlift him into Japan or Kenya or Chile, he is not longer the majority race and he is no longer considered part of the group.
So, the issue is not white racism. It is majority-ism and I would contend that if you study black-run African cultures like Zimbabwe or Asian-run countries or Arab-run countries that the majority is almost uniformly racist towards other outsiders and will seek to limit their influence and power.
Such is why wars are fought.
My answer to you in response to this exercise is to say that racism is not the issue as much as majority-ism and that minorities in the U.S. are doing a bang-up job changing the dynamics in the U.S. by out-birthing and out-immigrating whites so that they will soon be a minority. The minorities just need to be patient and soon they will be the majority.
If it were me, I would send a certified letter to the President of the school, threatening to file a civil rights complaint against the school on the grounds that the course discriminated against me because the list did not have a white American male of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage on the list, and therefore I was offended.
Obviously, since there was no Jewish male on the list, and thus no one for me to identify with, the school is forcing me to deny my ethnic heritage, and adding insult to the injury by forcing me to pretend to identify with an ethnicity other than my own, or perhaps even one that victimized me.
Clearly, the school is anti-semitic, and thus owes me reparations — or at least an automatic affirmative action passing grade in the course even if I don’t participate or do any of the assignments.
I always, always believe in fighting for the right. You may not have asked for the role, but you will educate them. I suggest you illustrate the racialism of such a video, which identifies individuals based upon race, by explaining an organization with a focus on something specific, most notably a church. Your typical church has members of various races, all absolutely unified as Christians, where race is transcended.
First of all, you can’t seriously expect anyone to read a 20-page transcript to help you out with a homework assignment, can you?
I will admit I didn’t read this whole exchange, but from what I read, here’s what I would advise if asked with whom I “identify:”
I am an individual, not the soulless member of some arbitrary marxist “class.” All the participants say some things that make sense to me. All of them say some things that don’t. I don’t “identify” (whatever that means) with any of them.
Or you could go Cloward-Piven on them. Take the most radical one and claim you “identify” with him, but explain that he doesn’t go far enough in his extremism. Take his arguments to the point of absurdity. But make sure you stay in character if questioned. Give the loons a taste of their own bile.
Or you can do what you actually WILL do, which is take the bait, become the straw man for this propaganda exercise, and walk out of the classroom ashamed of who you are, the willing victim of an ideological lynch mob.
But you’ll get a passing grade ...
Don’t confuse them with the facts.
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