Is Academia Creating Fake Racism?

Accuracy in Academia ^ | October 12, 2017 | Malcolm A. Kline

[Academiadotorg]

When you see their efforts to measure racial attitudes on campus, you might wonder.

For example, take the latest attempt to do so at the University of Washington. "“For this study, the team, with the help of focus groups of students of color from three universities, devised the Cultural Cognitions and Actions Survey (CCAS) and administered it to a small group of students -- 33 black, 118 white -- at a large public university in the Midwest," Kim Eckart explained in a news release from the University of Washington. "The 56-item questionnaire asks the white respondent to imagine him- or herself in five different everyday scenarios involving interactions with black people, such as talking about current events, attending a diversity workshop, or listening to music."

Only in academia would "attending a diversity workshop" be considered an "everyday scenario." "In the 'current events' scenario --the one that yielded the highest percentage of 'likely' responses from whites -- respondents were to imagine talking about topics in the news, such as police brutality and unemployment," Eckart writes. "More than half of white respondents said they would think or say, 'All lives matter, not just black lives,' while 30 percent said they might say, 'I don’t think of black people as black,' and 26 percent said they were likely to think or say, 'The police have a tough job. It is not their fault if they occasionally make a mistake.'"

"More than half of black respondents identified each of those statements as racist."

By this standard, Martin Luther King had questionable racial attitudes. One wonders if the members of this focus group would have edited the line, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" out of the "I have a dream" speech.

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia. He can be reached at mal.kline@academia.org.

[Academiadotorg]

Have we gone from "I have a dream" to "I have a safe space"?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Have we gone from "I have a dream" to "I have a safe space"?

I think it's more like "I have a dream--to be master."

[WKUHilltopper]

It’s beyond ‘creating racism’. That’s the phony soap box they’re using. They are intentionally creating an environment of sedition and treason. All for the intent of bringing down the Republic.

[ClearCase_guy]

Here are some generic statements:
Water is wet.
The sun rises in the east.
Iron is magnetic.

"More than half of black respondents identified each of those statements as racist."

[robroys woman]

I’m finding that a lot of white people are getting more racist because of the antics of “black” groups the last decade.

Case in point: When BLM members see a video of a cop shooting an “unarmed” black man, they see racism. When a lot of folks I know see the same video, they see a black man not cooperating with cops and some ask, “why do black people seem to show such a low level of civil behavior?”

And the “McDonald’s free for all fight videos only add wood to the fire.

i.e. just as all these various race baiting videos make blacks feel MORE like victims of racism. The make white people feel MORE racist toward those “feral black people”.

In my case, I don’t rack it up to their race but, rather, their culture. Put a black person in the middle to upper middle class “white/Asian” culture and he’s civilized. Being civilized is not about your race. It is about your culture.

But when such a low culture is almost exclusively attributed to black people, a lot of Asians, Whites, Native Americans/mexicans, etc. will actually become racist against blacks.

This is why I think we are in a cold civil war thanks to the internet. If it gets “hot” it will not be pretty, but civilization will win handily. We have a lot more guns and the training to use them effectively.

[Pollster1]

interactions with black people, such as talking about current events, attending a diversity workshop, or listening to music

I don't interact with people who identify as black. I also don't interact with people who identify as white. If you have some identity more important than "human", "American", or "Christian", I don't want to talk with you.

topics in the news, such as police brutality and unemployment," Eckart writes. "More than half of white respondents said they would think or say, 'All lives matter, not just black lives,' while 30 percent said they might say, 'I don’t think of black people as black,' and 26 percent said they were likely to think or say, 'The police have a tough job. It is not their fault if they occasionally make a mistake.'"

All lives do matter. That includes black lives, but it's not limited to black lives. If some moron thinks that is racist, I have no intention of ever talking with that person as if they were capable of rational thought.
I think of people as people. If some moron thinks that is racist, I have no intention of ever talking with that person as if they were capable of rational thought.
I do not think it's okay for police to "occasionally make a mistake" by shooting someone who is cooperating. However, I have found very few police shootings of black thugs that bothered me. If some moron thinks that is racist, I have no intention of ever talking with that person as if they were capable of rational thought.

[KyCats]

Right. It’s no longer “I have a dream”.

It’s “I have an agenda”.

[Leep]

Isn’t it racist to say academia is creAting fake racism?

[x]

Case in point: When BLM members see a video of a cop shooting an “unarmed” black man, they see racism. When a lot of folks I know see the same video, they see a black man not cooperating with cops and some ask, “why do black people seem to show such a low level of civil behavior?”

Different videos show different things happening.

Maybe the first thing is to ask what is actually happening in the video and not judge based on assumptions about police or African-Americans.

[Mr. Mojo]

"More than half of white respondents said they would think or say, 'All lives matter, not just black lives,' while 30 percent said they might say, 'I don’t think of black people as black,' and 26 percent said they were likely to think or say, 'The police have a tough job. It is not their fault if they occasionally make a mistake.'"

"More than half of black respondents identified each of those statements as racist."

I can only imagine what they'd think of a statement that speaks to the root of the issue -- that the entire premise of the BLM movement is bogus.

[Jaded]

Oh definitely.

It’s fed by the media.

I was telling someone just this morning that I find it hard to believe that until 11/8/16 there were NO racists. Then the following morning, 11/9/16, the US was suddenly filled with racists/nazis and assorted other unpleasant types.

It’s an upside down world we live in.

[SkyPilot]

The curriculum for "Black Studies" courses at universities and colleges is horrific stuff. It incites violence, hatred, and racism against anyone who is not black. Compared to "Black Studies" professors and their blatant propaganda spewing, the German Sturmabteilung (SA) were pikers.

When you see violence against whites, Asians, or police - you can find the genesis of it in "Black Studies" terrorism.

[robroys woman]

Yes. I get that. But to use an example:

Remember the black man that simply reached to his seat to get the wallet the cop asked him for? That cop had no business shooting the guy and it worked out the way everyone would like to see such a thing work out AFTER THE FACT. BLM doesn’t bring that one up, that I’m aware of.

They always go after the “poor black guy” that is running from or fighting with police, or refusing an order to raise their hands or drop an item. And what most white people see is a guy that’s practically asking to get shot. And after watching a LOT of them, and they all show a black man acting improper, people get a skewed perspective. On both sides.

And the part that is so fascinating to me is that statistics don’t support this as a serious problem. That is, more whites are shot by cops than blacks, and whites are more likely to get shot by blacks.

But when all you see are these videos on youtube, you get a false narrative on what is actually going on out there.

And The Whole NFL protest is based on a false narrative, which is why it is such a farce.

But I digress...

[Steve_Seattle]

'The police have a tough job. It is not their fault if they occasionally make a mistake.'

That question is worded to elicit the "wrong" response from gullible white people. They mix an obvious truth - "the police have a tough job" - with a very debatable conclusion - "it's not their fault if they make an occasional mistake."

A fairer conclusion would be, ". . . so sometimes they will overreact and do the wrong thing," or " . . . but there are a few bad cops" or ". . . and they know that statistically some neighborhoods are far more dangerous than others, and so are more likely to overreact in those neighborhoods," or some such conclusion.

[trebb]

They atre fanning the flames of racism in the real racists - gonna end up getting a lot of folks killed as they also fan the flames of “I can hurt/kill/destroy” in the thugs who hate the thought of actual Freedom/acceptance because they are too pathetic to integrate into a peaceful society.

[Steve_Seattle]

"And the part that is so fascinating to me is that statistics don’t support this as a serious problem. That is, more whites are shot by cops than blacks, and whites are more likely to get shot by blacks. But when all you see are these videos on youtube, you get a false narrative on what is actually going on out there."

Correct. The media play up only the black-white incidents where there are questions whether the police acted properly, so you get the impression that it is rampant and that there are no other scenarios.

I remember about a year ago, I saw an item in my local paper about a fatal police shooting of an unarmed man. It was on page A8 and was about four paragraphs long. I figured there was a 99% probability the guy was white, since if he was black it would have been on the front page above the fold.

[Billthedrill]

Witches, witches everywhere. If only the academy could graduate more witch-finders everything would be all right.

[z3n]

No all that isn’t academia. It may be statistically rare, but when events happen like the man who was shot in the back by a cop because he was running away, that enters the consciousness of black people who are already hyper sensitive to it.

The bigger gray area that has already been mentioned that tends to fall one way or the other is when someone is uncooperative and end up shot. The reason it falls either way based on race is simply a matter of psychology. It’s easier to sympathize with someone closer to your socio-economic and racial background, particularly when you already habor a distrust of authority. If this was a formula, the racial aspect is only a factor, but it’s one that changes the curve. When I see someone getting shot for not complying, regardless of race, I have to ask where is due process and how did police become judge, jury, and executioner.

All that being true (by my belief) it doesn’t change the fact that there are powerful elements in the media, academia, and other sources that seem to be working to cultivate all this racial hate, resentment and growing distrust. Divide and conquer.

[ek_hornbeck]

Leftwing academics and other professional agitators have made a cottage industry of studying “racism.” If they can’t find evidence of racism, they’re out of a job, but even more importantly, their sense of identity and self-importance is gone. That’s why they have to invent non-existent problems such as “white privilege” and “microaggression” in need of their proposed non-solutions.

[dragnet2]

Yes they are, and it’s painfully obvious.