Becoming world citizens in the 21st century (MultiKulti White Guilt BARF ALERT!)

Portland (ME) Press-Herald ^ | 1/16/03 | Robert Atkinson

[CFC__VRWC]

Even though I was born with certain unearned "white privileges," anything I have access to that they don't, I feel uncomfortable with.

Well, he could start feeling more comfortable by not offering this kind of delusional drivel for publication. As a rule, "they" don't have access to a forum to express their opinions, unless the opionion is sanctioned by their government.

[Travis McGee]

Flushing academia would be one of the best things we could do in this country.

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[junta]

The French masters on the Island of Haiti were saying the same crap just before they were all murdered and I suspect since human nature trumps namby pamby moralizing nearly 100% of the time this fool is cannibal bait. He is a parody straight out of the novel by Respail "Camp of Saints."

[G.Mason]

"Even though I was born with certain unearned "white privileges," anything I have access to that they don't, I feel uncomfortable with."

This guy is suicidal.

If he should stray too far fron his medicine cabinet, he's a dead man.

[DWSUWF]

Robert...

Speed Kills.

And I'm not talking about how you drive your car...

[G.Mason]

"We need a purge. I'm starting to understand why totalitarian power consolidators frequently like to clean out academia right out of the gate...usually after they've played the useful idiot role."

We need to "thin the herds".

If the weak of minds B/S prevails there most certainly will be a sudden and dramatic population shift. Downward!

Hell, most of these idiots would be dead in a week if the local power company shut down.

[Matthew James]

There's an organization that sells these ridiculous "Citizen of the World" passports. They're clearly not valid, but I know someone who somehow succeeded in getting out of Russia on one! He wasn't caught until he got to U.S. Immigration. [This was about five or six years ago.]

[driftless]

I don't believe he said that it's "for the children". However there are not many he missed. How would you like to have this sap for a teacher? If he really believes all the crap he said, then woebetide him and his students.

[denydenydeny]

THIS is a Ph.D? A Ph.D can write sentences like this?

Having just returned from a "Semester at Sea" voyage around the world, the statement made by Baha'u'llah 150 years ago, "The Earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens," means more to me now than ever. [The statement just returned from a voyage around the world?]

Even though I was born with certain unearned "white privileges," anything I have access to that they don't, I feel uncomfortable with. [This is about as incomprehensible a sentence as it's possible to write.]

As a white person, Maine's diversity issues are my issues, too. [Maine's diversity issues are a white person?]

Anyone who writes sentences like that should have his doctorate revoked immediately.

I also have a problem with people who demand that "America become more diverse." America is already the most diverse country on earth. If you want the world to be more diverse, go to China or Pakistan and demand that they become more diverse. Why is it only we who must be educated?

[wardaddy]

I never realized the steady allure that guilt serves for the liberal self flagellators until I was over 30. They of course have no conception of shame.

Guilt is an indulgence after a certain point.

[kulot]

Folks: Some of you have done a thorough job of picking apart the author of this article, whose basic point was that everyone in this world is a fellow human, regardless of which borders they live in. Today, on this website, you will find that spirit on this website with the other discussion threads covering topics, e.g.:

Torture of Iraqis by Saddam, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, etc.

but not on this thread.

He did not say that we should tolerate injustice or evil, whether it is in Iraq, 37th St Manhattan, or Zimbabwe, or even laziness.

The problem here is that he happens to be a Diversity Professor in Maine (a "liberal" state). Some people connect that with him being a Pacifist Socialist.

By the way, Baha'u'llah, whom he quotes, said a bit more than what is quoted here - try more than 160 books and tablets worth - much written while imprisoned.

Besides, is it really so bad "for the children" that they grow learning about life in Norway?

[kulot]

Ah, America the Beautiful!

A great example of the richness that comes from a mixture of cultures and ideas.

Not sure if he was thinking in terms of America. Perhaps he was thinking in terms of the diversity of the world and an appreciation of it.

[dennisw]

Problem is our universities are dominated by idiots like him. I wouldn't mind a few but they're all over and only hire their own.

We need some hard headed liberal arts professors who teach about what made America great. We have enough multi-culti clones like the author of the editorial.

[dennisw]

A great example of the richness that comes from a mixture of cultures and ideas.

Yep. Be sure to use that tired ol' buzzword "richness". What good is the word culture without the word "rich" preceding it? Repeat it every day like a mantra.

[denydenydeny]

I'm a former Baha'i myself, now a Christian again.

There is still a lot I love about the faith, but it's people like the author who soured me on it. At some point for many people in the Baha'i community, the goal became diversity rather than unity, and it began to feel like I was part of a leftist political movement rather than a religion.

[martian_22]

You know this guy better than he knows himself!

[driftless]

You missed the whole point of this guy's exceptionally sappy article. Do you think statements like "unearned privileges" are logical? If I say that in the course of something I write that I love everybody and everything, does that make it some kind of deep statement?

This professor has his cranium jammed deeply up his anal orifice. He's swallowed the book "The Extreme Liberal Guide To Happiness" whole. By regurgitating all the current leftist drivel and cant, he sounds like he doesn't have an original thought in his head. It's like he's some sort of leftist automaton.

[Fraulein]

I value the completeness of multiculturalism. Diversity brings about beauty and enriches everything else around it, as in a multihued flower garden. Multiculturalism becomes a primary value when we recognize the oneness of humanity...

MAJOR BARF!

Once again, I have to ask: Why do leftists all sound like 8 years olds?

Throw this idiot some crayons!