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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And voting is acting white.
I would make a logical assumption that the ‘good’ professor is tenured. Such drivel from a non-tenured academic would risk closer examination of outcomes.
(If you've taken her class, hoping to pass ityou've already failed.)
Any university with a governing body worth it’s salt, would can this woman so fast it would make her head swim.
She is a prof,afterall.
They mostly live off the labor of others.
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She obviously doesn’t believe in any work.
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From an empty boxcar on a siding somewhere? ( /s )
Certainly doesn’t believe in working out.
College ‘professors’ = AntiFa.
‘splain to me how so many black athletes succeed?
Leftists don’t like the idea that hard work can achieve success, because it leave no room for “struggle”, “activism”, and “community organizing”.
I looked at her picture and read her cv. Explains everything
It’s a she
What race will she pin the ideology of laziness on I wonder?
What a bigot.
She will end up as a guest on Tucker Carlson where she will make an ass of herself and get fired.
“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.”
You didn’t build that!
If I work hard and long, I’ll get more done. I’ll have more to invest and then earn the rewards from that.
Simple math.
Don’t tell that to my Asian Tiger DILs.
My DILs would bitch-slap the fool that told one of my grandchildren to slack off because its a “white thing.”
Imagine there's no Obama-Phones
It's easy if you try
No Earned Income Tax Credits
No free abortions or EBT Cards too
Imagine all the people paying their own wayImagine there's no America
It isn't hard to do
Everything is black run
Like Detroit or Zimbabwe too
Imagine all the people living a Third World lifeSome may say you're a dreamer
But you're not the only one
I hope some day you all will join up
And live in the world that you dream of...
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