Posted on 12/08/2021 12:31:23 PM PST by Red Badger
We are at a time and place in late 2021 where it literally has become acceptable to ponder the exclusion of a specific race of people from a college party.
That is, if the race is white.
A student at Swarthmore College last week penned an entire op-ed on this topic as a situation arose which — allegedly — warranted the ejection of Caucasians at the small, private institution near Philadelphia.
In The Phoenix, economics major Sameer Halepoto points to a pre-Thanksgiving party hosted by the Swarthmore Queer Union, Swarthmore African Student Association, Swarthmore ENLACE, and the Swarthmore African-American Student Society which had filled up rather quickly.
Halepoto says “typical [Swarthmore] parties include an outsized number of white students (many of whom are athletes), making it harder for marginalized groups to feel welcome.”
As a result, party organizers blared a repeating electronic message through speakers which warned that white people had to leave.
“To be fair” to the organizers, Halepoto writes, they were in a “lose-lose situation.” Apparently they attempted to create a “safe space” for marginalized groups and to make a “concerted effort to include affinity groups within settings occupied by non-marginalized people.”
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But keep in mind white people can be queer and/or Latinx. Halepoto wonders how many whites who remained after the “get out” warning actually were either: Did the announcement create “an incentive for students to falsely identify with a marginalized identity”?
Halepoto also (ridiculously tactfully) says it’s “fair to question” whether telling whites to leave was “the optimal solution to creating a more inclusive party” considering it violates college rules for official student groups. In addition, it “sow[s] further division on campus at a time when such issues are especially salient.”
From the op-ed:
When it comes to including marginalized groups — like those represented by the hosts at Paces on Saturday night — students’ approaches are often at odds with each other. We want safe spaces that are exclusively occupied by a given marginalized group. At the same time, we want to do more to center marginalized groups in settings occupied by white people, which would necessitate interaction between marginalized groups and white people. Racial exclusion, however, does not contribute to either and goes against the type of community we strive to cultivate at [Swarthmore].
Racial exclusion and trying to achieve the equilibrium ratio of white:BIPOC at a party only creates an illusion of equality. It creates a temporary feeling of control for some and resentment for others when we could be using such events to create spaces that center marginalized groups and welcome allies simultaneously.
According to his Linkedin page, Halepoto “create[s] a welcoming and inclusive environment for new students” as a Swarthmore teaching assistant, and also works as a private consultant for “socially conscious firms.”
The Swarthmore student paper has a history of somewhat inane editorials; in 2016 it apologized for an op-ed (in an editorial titled “We Fucked Up”) which told students to “stop whining” about their affluent peers. And a year ago, the paper advocated for a critical race theory graduation requirement.
What’s the problem? “Where de black women at?” (Blazing Saddles reference).
If it’s the kind of party you could kick whites out of, they probably don’t want to be there, anyway.
But yet when white people gather, they’re all racist patriarchs. At some point, white people aren’t going to stand for this shit anymore.
No ‘white men’ on commercials...
I have noticed this as well. It seems like every Netflix produced show has at least 1 gay couple with less and less white people but with many mixed race couples. Anytime there is an opportunity to slam Christianity it is written into the script.
I guess the white kids will have to segregate into nicer and safer parties at better places where people are better behaved.
You know that’s what would happen.
These students seem profoundly stupid.
It worked for the Democrats ...
This is one white that was encouraged to leave a party in 1971 or 72. Nothing new. Humans are tribal and they sometimes act tribally.
On the bright side, its nice to see disaffected queers, and angry leftist racists are still celebrating the memory of my Pilgrim ancestors and George Washington's first national celebration of the Holiday.
....making it harder for marginalized groups to feel welcome.”
So they divide themselves up into stupid little social groups & then complain that they are "marginalized".
By the way, if you are so marginalized why do you have your own segregated group? I'll bet there is no White Social Group.
Sameer is really asking for an ass-kicking contest, where he supplied the ass.
I wouldn’t want to go to a party with a bunch of racists anyway. 🤷🏻♀️
Don’t have to kick white people out of a party, they don’t care to associate with a bunch of deadbeats to begin with and will leave after a few minutes anyway.
Imagine the uproar if the white students held a whites only party....................................
“...whites to leave was “the optimal solution to creating a more inclusive party”...”
Kicking out probably the majority of partygoers doesn’t create “inclusiveness”... Just the opposite!!!!
I thought college kids would know this........LOL
Anyone who doesn’t believe in conspiracies need only watch an evening of primetime network television, where 13 percent of the population appears in 100 percent of the commercials.
The problem with their theory is that they would only get to eleminate whites and take their stuff once. Then what would they do? Go to war against each other to get the last food or the last things they haven't broken?
Another problem with their theory is that whites would not all comply with being eliminated. The liberals might, but that would not put a dent in the massive battle that would happen.
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