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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White ideology means no free lunch or ride if your free you are on your own it’s not other peoples duty to take care of you.
Lazy slackers become more stupid by the day what a pack of feral dogs.
I prefer to use the term “Northern European work ethic.
You will no doubt realize that I am Catholic and my immigrant German ancestors worked plenty hard.
Actually the ‘work ethic concept’ arose from the idea of equality and the abandonment of a class system. So I credit the descendants of England who first declared rights against the King in the Magna Carta. Hard work to better oneself evolved first as an English concept and later as a north European concept. That is where the north European connection came into being, and no doubt is why it is associated with being Protestant.
Oh, so academic promotions should be based on loyalty to the Party, like in the good old days of the Soviet Union.
Most “Christian” colleges and seminaries are teaching the same things.
The Frankfurt School has many satellites throughout the land.
The alternative is crime and death.
Mostly death.
So using simple logic and deduction, lazy, shiftless, no-good bums who don't work and who leach off the taxpayers, is black ideology.
Makes sense to me.
I think she is right. Look what western Europe has achieved in the last 2,000 years compared to Africa.
The hate is strong in this fat one...very strong. She self-loathes but projects it onto others. Can you say “loser”? Can you say “parasite”?
The hate is strong in this fat one...very strong. She self-loathes but projects it onto others. Can you say “loser”? Can you say “parasite”?
Her solution:
if I work hard, I can be successful
Hard work does not guarantee success any more than careful defensive driving guarantees a safe trip. It does, however, improve the odds immeasurably. One of the most racist actions I can imagine is to teach minority children otherwise. The few hundred Klan left in America probably cheer at the idea that so many little black boys and girls in our country are being taught that hard work won’t matter.
She’s right. Africa is the proof.
This type of BS is coming out now frequently in reaction to an op-ed that the fearless Heather MacDonald discusses in this WSJ article:
Higher Eds Latest Taboo Is Bourgeois Norms
An op-ed praising 1950s values provokes another campus meltdown from the deans on down
https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-eds-latest-taboo-is-bourgeois-norms-1505774818
and was published here by the also fearless professors, Amy Wax & Larry Alexander in the (!) Philly Enquirer:
Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html
She's right but not in the way she thinks.
So, to this racist “professor”, believing in laziness is black ideology.
Hey, they are correct! For once!
Most if not all new hires should be hired on a probationary 6-month term, so that firing will not trigger a law suit from these snowflakes.
Hard work is the fount of White Privilege. They just don’t get, and maybe they never will.
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