[just mimi]

It may turn out that I am very wrong on this point, but I can only imagine the purpose of these courses is to teach white wrongness and white guilt. I hope that I am wrong.

[Skywalk]

Nope, that's exactly what they are for.

It's sad because I don't have a real issue with individual classes that cover the history of Asians in America, or West Indian immigrants. These are all part of history, but the fact is ethnic studies departments(as opposed to regional or real cultural studies like Russian/East European Studies, Asian Studies, European Studies) are nothing but bastions of leftist thought and anti-white propaganda.

Typically, whiteness studies ARE designed to surreptitiously elicit feelings of guilt. Though people are descended from all parts of Europe and elsewhere, these classes will focus on whites as oppressors, if cloaking the language while doing so.

[2rightsleftcoast]

No, you are correct! Caught a little of this BS on O'Reilly.
The professor was saying just that if I am not mistaken.
Whites have to face up to the privileges they have been given etc. I think that was the drift. Who creates and then OKs these courses?

[Patangeles]

I don't know anything about whiteness studies, but it sounds like an effort toward inclusiveness. Conservatives have been asking for equal time for years, and rightly so.

However, it may not be what it's cacked up to be. At the very least, students will have white clubs, white events, etc, instead of the present non-inclusionary status they experience.