Posted on 03/18/2021 7:09:35 AM PDT by C19fan
The University of Iowa held a virtual “anti-racist workshop,” where attendees heard from a handful of speakers on how to combat racism through creative writing.
The panel hosted a variety of speakers, the main purpose of which was to understand that “writing course curricula neglect the impact of writers of color;” and that English classes have “centered and celebrated works that haven’t addressed the realities, histories, or cultures of communities of color and other minoritized and marginalized peoples.”
Students listened to guest speakers such as Felicia Chavez, an alumna of the university’s non-fiction writing program. When speaking about how to be anti-racist in writings she insisted “to center whiteness as neutral, and objective, and universal, as it is embedded in our marketing materials, our syllabi, our lecture notes, our curriculum, our frame of reference and our faculty and administration.”
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When it comes to the Liberal Arts one is better off learning from passionate non-academics. There is a ton of good content out there whether podcasts, YouTube, and blogs.
Reruns of Fat Albert? Hey Hey Hey
“We don’t need your kind around here” said the anti-racist.
How long are white people going to be ok with being disparaged, insulted, marginalized by the left? Fight back!
It goes beyond that. Even non whites, including blacks, who achieve through hard work and diligence are put down as “white adjacent”.
This is eventually heading into Pol Pot territory. Especially when “academia” spews “Logic and reason is the perpetuation of white cishetero patriarchy.”
“white cishetero patriarchy”
I don’t see the problem here.
Another self-loathing black ghey man. Hey, Matty, 2008 called: “We’ve already lived through your president.”
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If it weren’t for “logic and reasoning”, these guys wouldn’t have their current sinecures.
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