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.
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They use such big words to sound smart!
These people are the dumbest, most self destructive people on the planet.
As a sidebar, I see all these mentions of a “Post Truth Society”, which the leftist media (party organs) blames on the deplorables. Projection, plain and simple. When reason, logic, and even mathematics is declared the propagation of white cishet privilege, the “truth” that remains is that which complies with whatever the party line is.
If objectivity is a myth, I guess Hobart and William Smith Colleges won’t mind if all their funding is pulled and their campus is razed to the ground, since objectively their college is a myth.
Spot on. Pretty rich coming from an ‘objective’ academia. Oh, wretched academia, ‘objectively’ explain to me how is that every time I hear or read about idiots espousing ‘white privilege’ or ‘white’ anything, it happens to be predominately coming from the mouths of WHITE ASS people?!!!
I genuinely would like to know why you feel that way.
I think you misspelled “retard” but who am I to judge?
My son graduated 3rd in his class last night. He will be attending Georgia Tech. One of the girls in his class, also a National Honor Society member and part of his government class is a big lib. She is on her way to Cornell as well. I told my boy that it may be Ivy League, but she won’t learn a thing there, just a lot of confirmation bias. I also told him to remember her now and then check her out at the 10 year reunion. She’s a pretty girl but already has the permanently etched frown lines and crows feet of the committed statist. Those will only get deeper with outrage....
Dear agave,
re: “Obviously, YOUR comment reveals a white-centered bias against, and condescending attitude toward, legless furniture, people, and homosapiens antecedents.”
(btw ‘homosapiens’ is spelled ‘homo sapiens’.)
Obviously you have never known the man made famous by “The Pussycat Theater chain”, whose nickname was “tripod”.
Those who object to Whites, and things that they associate with Whites, need to go somewhere Whites are rare.
The same as it was thousands of years ago.
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