Posted on 05/30/2018 1:30:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Humboldt State University [California] is preparing to host a flurry of social justice workshops intended for “white folks” who seek to take part “in conversations about race more productively.”
Starting on June 12, students may attend part one of the “Microaggressions and Whiteness” workshop, which will offer “an introduction to the concept of whiteness, the significance of whiteness in our everyday lives, and how this shapes our interactions with each other.”
Part two of the workshop will take place on June 19, and is intended to provide “an introduction to the concept of microaggressions, how to identify them, and how to deal with microaggressions that occur during our interactions with each other.”
Alongside the two-part whiteness workshop, Humboldt invites white students to watch and discuss Ted Talks dealing with whiteness and privilege, including “How Can I Have a Positive Racial Identity? I'm White!” “Why Does Privilege Make People So Angry?” “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion,” and “What Beyonce Taught Me about Race.”
Additionally, the students will get a chance to read and discuss an article titled “White People: I Don't Want You to Understand Me Better, I Want You to Understand Yourselves.”
All five discussion sessions are part of a larger “Building Stamina: Cultivating a Positive White Racial Identity that Supports Positive Participation in Conversations about Race” workshop that is intended specifically for “white folks,” according to the online description of the event.
“This is an opportunity for white people to self-reflect, ask questions, and enter in conversation with each other in an effort to better understand whiteness and privilege as well as interpersonal and systemic structures that facilitate opportunity for some and limit opportunity for others,” the description explains.
“No previous experience talking about race or whiteness is necessary,” it clarifies, saying the only prerequisite is “a willingness to listen, learn, and have what you know questioned.”
Also on June 12, the university will be hosting a seminar titled “Strategies for Defusing Defensiveness,” which will “support folks to identify what our own defensiveness around privilege may look and feel like.”
According to the school, attendees of this session “will have the opportunity to engage with mindful and grounding practices as specific tools to support us in moving forward and mindfully acting from our values, as well as discuss ways to address potential harms that may have occurred.”
Campus Reform reached out to Humboldt State for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
If white people gather to discuss their race and how to use it to be more productive, that’s frowned upon. So what is the goal here then? To guilt ‘white folks’ into second class back of the bus status? Step aside and let others lead?
Socialism seeks to share misery.
” the students will get a chance to read and discuss an article titled “White People: I Don’t Want You to Understand Me Better, I Want You to Understand Yourselves.”
who wrote this? Buttcrack obama?
There is a rabid focus on getting Whites to apologize for being White.
I could save them time.
“White folks, just kill yourselves.”
Of course, how they keep the lights on and the clean water running once we’re gone, they haven’t thought through.
More racism from the university system.
Whites are supposed to push the bus up the hill.
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you where I think this is leading, but no one in 1980 would have believed that the Supreme Court would ever approve sodomite mirage over the expressed will of the people, either.
Exactly, because that bus (first world civilisation) isn’t moving without us. South Africa is finding that out, though they’ll still double-down on purging whites from jobs and society.
Tell me.
There is nothing ANYONE can say to me to make me ashamed of my race.
I have no more privileges than anyone else, of any color, and I won’t give those to accuse me of it one, thin, dime, or any of my property, or self-respect.
Will there be torches and hoods?
White Democrat rallies get CRAZY!!!!
People will pay good money for that.
To the genocide, one way or another, of whites. Especially white, heterosexual males, who are really the ones who make the world go round.
I don’t identify as “white”. I’m Appalachian-American.
this “university” should disclose what ALL its professors are paid (including benefits) so that it is made clear what a bunch of rich tards worthy of socialization (redistrution of their ill-gotten privileged hypocritical wealth) they are .
Rich commies are always good meat to feed to their own mob tools for correction. Cultural Revolution for YOU baby !!!
I believe it.
My profile lists the three steps that are being used to make that happen.
Chase, Erase, and Replace.
White Mans Burden — ingratitude til the end of time.
“How can I walk through a black neighborhood alone without apprehension?”
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