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.
At some point, white people are just going to have to say "Screw you, we're not going kill ourselves to make you happy. We've decided we like our position at the top, and we are going to keep it".
Try me.
May I co-opt that?
Hoss
Hear, hear....
To quote my own sent mail—
“I think that “poc” are going to be lead by a few white elites (who will believe that they have control of things until the bitter end) to try to genocide whites. It’s already happening globally through demographic “white-out”, and that’s by the UN’s own definition, though they don’t apply it to the white population. It remains to be seen if whites will do what they must to prevent it, or continue to be altruistically suicidal until the end.”
Ten times more people will attend the monthly meeting of Humboldt County’s organic gardening club than will attend this Maoist brainwashing session. Hippies may be somewhat dumb, but they’re not good material for a 1950’s commie indoctrination. The hippies would beat the crap out of these millennial social justice wimps if they interfere in northern California hippy lifestyle.
I read that as "How whites can take advantage of minorities for personal gain and self enrichment."
Awful damn racist of the University.
Will they have discussion on the wide variety of handshakes whites have?
Maybe it is a white thing I wouldn’t understand.
;-)
Wonder if they have a unit on Macro-aggressions and Blackness?
“To the genocide, one way or another, of whites. “
Nope.
Here’s a few examples of the racist snowflakes getting a small sample of genocide visited on them:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=antifa+beat+down
This bullying needs to stop.
Eff them. The N word will make a come back if this crap continues.
I’d rather attend a conversation about’ how other races can be productive’.
June 19th? Is this supposed to be for people at summer school, or does the college really run that long into the summer? I wonder how many students will actually be on campus by then.
So odd that *they* don’t understand how this type of behavior is actually antagonizing race relations. Exclusion rather than inclusion.
On the other hand, maybe that is exactly *their* goal.
Look up this racial diversity BS our Gov is into. 10 to 1 says Obozzo started this.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/features/most-diverse-colleges/
Its name is a portmanteau of "June" and "nineteenth", the date of its celebration. Juneteenth is recognized as a state holiday or special day of observance in forty-five states.
We had two really great black SF NCO’s in Vietnam in my unit out of 50-70 or so NCO’s and both ran recon. Both were SFC’s. One was wounded badly on an OP, a cross border OP and he ordered his 11 assistant to “LEAVE HIM.” The white SGT did not. I ended up in the same hospital with him and he had been stitched with AK 7.62 mm rounds from arm and shoulder to the same on the other side. I used to watch his wife try to feed him. The man was a hero in my book. The other asked me to get him away from a certain officer in recon. I went to our LTC for him. It was done. That was how one earned respect in Special Forces by doing your job and the NCO’s damn sure knew which officers were to be trusted. The same would work today without this- I am owed-you are guilty BS.
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