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Posted on 06/07/2018 7:02:35 AM PDT by Maceman
Hobart and William Smith Colleges is offering a course next year to teach students how “objectivity” and “meritocracy” function as “white mythologies.”
“White Mythologies: Objectivity, Meritocracy, and Other Social Constructions” is a sophomore-level course taught by Kendralin Freeman and Jason Rodriguez, who are sociology and anthropology professors, respectively.
"Students will explore how systematic logics that position ‘the West’ and ‘whiteness’ as the ideal manifest through such social constructions as objectivity, meritocracy, and race."
“This course explores the history and ongoing manifestations of ‘white mythologies’—long-standing, often implicit views about the place of White, male, Euro-American subjects as the norm,” explains the course description, which adds that students will also “explore how systematic logics that position ‘the West’ and ‘whiteness’ as the ideal manifest through such social constructions as objectivity, meritocracy, and race.”
Though neither Freeman or Rodriguez responded to a request for more information from Campus Reform, both professors have worked together for a few years, and notably co-authored an article in the journal of Whiteness and Education together.
In that article, Freeman and Rodriguez argue that despite the good intentions of white students and community members, calls for “intersectionality” and “diversity” on campus may actually “derail dialogue about racism” and inadvertently “recenter whiteness.” romote white privilege, as well, since those diversity efforts are often couched in neoliberal sloganeering as opposed to an acknowledgment that racism still exists. . . .
They also contend that efforts to increase minority representation on college campuses may actually paddressing the unfair, systematic advantages that white subjects experience, but are instead framed as either avenues for addressing historical injustices or issues of simple underrepresentation,” they write.
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Wait until the new generation of engineers decide to build things without objectivity because it’s “racist”.
In my son’s high school (he is just a Freshman), a boy who graduated 3rd in his class out of 1157 students is going to Cornell to study Sociology.
I told my son it was sad and a waste of a good mind.
Haven’t the people who peddled this crap realize it actually contributes to a rise in racism? It’s as though they want racial divisions to foment tensions in this country. It can’t be a coincidence that we have more calls for gun control at the same time. Am I paranoid in thinking “Plant the seeds of a revolution and make sure people can’t fight back.”
Truth exists. A statement and its negation cannot both be true at the same time. Objectivity has nothing to do with white.
If objectivity and meritocracy are myths designed to keep whites in power than these professors are admitting other races cannot compete on a level playing field.
YIKES! That WAS brutal.
What happened in South Africa proves his point.
The fact is, there are not many Asian basketball players, and there aren’t many black mathematicians. It’s a shame people don’t embrace the strengths their race brings to the table and allow everyone to blossom with the strengths they were given by God.
On a side note, can you imagine the fallout if ANY high profile white man gave that speech?
Maceman wrote: “ ... I believe that this course will not have a leg to stand on, without attempting to define which kind of leg from what kind of furniture, with no specifics as the rule.”
Obviously, YOUR comment reveals a white-centered bias against, and condescending attitude toward, legless furniture, people, and homosapiens antecedents.
“When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom,
and your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know
“When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head”
— “White Rabbit” Jefferson Airplane (lyrics, Grace Slick), from “Surrealistic Pillow” (1967)
“I identified with Alice. I was a product of ’50s America in Palo Alto, California, where women were housewives with short hair and everything was highly regulated. I went from the planned, bland ’50s to the world of being in a rock band without looking back. It was my Alice moment, heading down the hole. ‘White Rabbit’ seemed like an appropriate title.” — Grace Slick
As moronic as this sounds, you have to give the left credit. They realized a long time ago that they would have a difficult time turning our country socialist. Turning the education system into indoctrination facilities is starting to pay off in a huge way. Hard to believe, but a fairly large percentage of the population have been conditioned to accept whatever drivel the left puts out to undermine western culture.
Objectivity and meritocracy are not mythologies. They are goals, often difficult to achieve but with well-established, relatively neutral strategies for implementation. They are disliked by people who do not do well in level playing field competition and who prefer allocation of rewards on the basis of political pull and group entitlements.
How’s life in Africa these days?-)
Nothing “subjective” about landing on the Moon homies! Keep trying.
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“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.
“If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
” ... sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – The Outer Limits.”
I've made sure that I've bookmarked that so that I can see the rest of his videos ...!
James Manning’s speech is classical confabulation (making things up) as he goes along. A con man and schizophrenic, yet taken as erudite.
“Each racial group wants the whole pie and they don’t want to share it. That creates friction.”
Socialists want to divide the pie.
Conservatives bake more pies.
Socialists do all they can to prevent new pies from being baked.
Unless you believe that all people in 1900 had air conditioning, refrigerators, automobiles, computers, hot and cold running water, smart phones, and any other of the now ubiquitous trappings of a modern civilization
Yes, and because it’s totally subjective, everyone must get an “A” in the course because everyone’s ideas and opinions on the subject are equally valid, since there is no standard that can be used to judge them. Even the student that skips all the classes, hands in no coursework, and misses the final must get an equal grade, since his opinion that the course is not worth the effort is still equally valid in a system with no objectivity.
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