Posted on 09/10/2020 12:00:02 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The University of Michigan-Dearborn issued an apology Wednesday for creating segregated online student "cafes," one for White people and another for people of color, that it says were intended to promote discussions about race and diversity. A statement by the university near Detroit came after two virtual "cafe" events were held Tuesday, with one advertised as a "non-POC Cafe" for non-people of color to "gather and discuss their experience as students on campus and as non-POC in the world."
The other, dubbed "BIOPIC Cafe" was for Black, Indigenous and People of Color, and described as a space for "marginalized racial/ethnic/cultural communities to gather and to relate with one another to discuss their experience as students on campus'' and in the world.
Abed Ayoub, legal and policy director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said he understood the intention but "it could have been done better, obviously."
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In its statement, UM-Dearborn apologized for referring to the online gatherings as "cafes," saying they weren't intended to be exclusive or exclusionary for individuals of a certain race.
The use of "cafe" was the cause of much confusion as people online thought the university was building two separate, physical cafes to serve students, said Vice-Chancellor Ken Kettenbeil, adding the sessions were one-time events, but he anticipates the dialogue will continue.
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We also get another acronym, BIOPIC.
I thought most of the student body at that school were Middle Easterners anyway.
If the have a white and non-white “cafe”, half the minorities would be screaming for admission to the white cafe while demanding the non-white cafe exclude whites. That’s just the way these people operate.
Their spell check turned BIPOC (which I discovered earlier this year) into BIOPIC (biographical motion picture), I see.
Do they have a “one drop” rule to determine who gets into the privileged cafe?
Just like a Patriot gets threatened or sometimes killed at a BLM rally but attend all Patriot rallies just to cause trouble.
“”it could have been done better, obviously.”
How can one do segregation better?
Wait, I thought segregation was the new inclusiveness.
It’s all so confusing.
These people need serious psychological help. And some history lessons.
Colleges require compulsory attendance within the first few days of classes starting in segregated seminars. Whitey goes into one, and is told he is worth nothing and is responsible for all the evils in the world. Non-Whitey is in the other, and is told he can do no wrong, is the victim, and that Whitey bears responsibility for his failures.
So this is following in the same path.
Apologize apologize...grovel grovel...snivel snivel...
The use of “cafe” was the cause of much confusion as people online thought the university was building two separate, physical cafes to serve students, said Vice-Chancellor Ken Kettenbeil, adding the sessions were one-time events, but he anticipates the dialogue will continue.
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I have a problem with the term “Cafe”. The word is French for coffee. It’s use for BIOPIC students is cultural appropriation.
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