Posted on 10/04/2014 12:28:32 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
TORONTO - The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) is offering their members a workshop on “white privilege.”
That’s right. It doesn’t question whether white privilege exists.
That’s a given. No debate about whether all white people have special status. They just do.
And the union representing more than 76,000 teachers is teaching its membership how to deal with it.
White privilege exists, therefore ETFO will have a workshop on it.
Frankly, as a white person who’s struggled all my life to become privileged, I really wish I knew what white privilege is, because I’d like a heaping helping.
If I’d had a chunk of white privilege, I wouldn’t have had to bust my butt every day working to make a living. I could be eating bonbons on a yacht in the Mediterranean.
A note on the ETFO website says the union is looking for people to put on the workshops.
The “ideal presenter” will have “demonstrated commitment and understanding of white privilege and systemic issues.”
Interested in the job? Then you should submit a cover letter that outlines “your understanding of white privilege.”
Well, here’s my understanding of white privilege.
It doesn’t exist.
This is a racist notion put forward by ETFO and it is as dangerous as it is corrosive.
I don’t know what “systemic issues” they’re talking about, but it’s presupposing a whole bunch of false assumptions.
By their very nature and label, these workshops are aimed at creating resentment of one race by all others.
What on earth is a union doing giving workshops on something that’s so alien to Canadian society?
The purpose is clearly to indoctrinate teachers into believing it exists.
The next step is for them to brainwash the children in their classrooms.
Do you really want that? Should white parents allow their children to be guilted by their teachers into believing they’re privileged because they’re white?
This has no place in our society.
We don’t have a problem with “white privilege.”
We have a society built on successive waves of immigration. We have no deep-rooted aristocracy that inherits wealth.
Just living in this great country that rewards hard work, ingenuity and initiative is a privilege — no matter what your colour.
Most people who consider themselves “privileged,” do so because either they, their parents or their grandparents made incredible sacrifices to give them the way of life they enjoy.
A teacher forwarded the information on the workshops to the Toronto Sun. His question was why the union is putting on toxic workshops like this when they should be dealing with education issues.
The teacher, who didn’t want to be identified, says his union should be fighting for more up-to-date textbooks and better classroom materials. The ones he’s working with now are old, decrepit and inadequate.
Shouldn’t teachers be taking workshops that refresh their teaching skills in subjects such as math, French, English and geography?
ETFO turned down my request for a comment Thursday.
“The decision is that at this point in time we do not wish to comment on that,” said spokesman Jennifer Drope, wishing me “good luck with your story.”
Well, thank you for that.
Other topics for workshops include “Islamophobia” and “homophobia.”
Hmm. Wonder if they’ve checked what Islam’s view on homosexuality is.
“Dated resources and teachers spending their own money on supplementing the elementary school system in Ontario impacts teachers more than ‘Islamophobia’ or ‘white privilege,’” said the teacher, by e-mail. I suspect most teachers agree.
Their union should stick to doing what their members pay dues for — representing them at the bargaining table, supporting them in the classroom and helping them in disputes with school boards.
Stirring up hatred, resentment and division in a society that does its best to promote tolerance, equity and understanding is stunning in its stupidity.
If they say that I’m privileged to be born white, who am I, a mere YT, to disagree?
“Their union should stick to doing what their members pay dues for — representing them at the bargaining table, supporting them in the classroom and helping them in disputes with school boards.”
Teachers’ unions in the US are the owners of the Democratic Party, a racket that exists for the profit of its members. The latest demonstration of their strength is the trafficking of countless foreigners into this country to keep their members theoretically employed; Americans will pick up the tab for these newcomers, and much of those funds will be used to tighten the vise-like grip of the American government on its taxpaying serfs.
>>Frankly, as a white person who’s struggled all my life to become privileged, I really wish I knew what white privilege is, because I’d like a heaping helping.
Same here. Went to a predominantly black high school, served as an enlisted man in the Navy, worked in factories as an electrician, and now work for a water/wastewater utility.
Still waiting for my privilege to kick in.
bttt
White priviledge exists. I can cash a 50 dollar bill at a convenience store. And if nobody is looking they will let me use the “employee only” bathroom. Just don’t think that is quite enough to build your life on...
If they seek to make me feel ashamed because of my skin color, then they are f***in’ racists and need to be denounced loudly and publicly as such.
You mean that other white people don’t hand you $100 bills as you walk down the street just for being white? (Happens to me all the time and, truthfully, it’s more than a little embarrassing.) /s
Racism: White Liberal Guilt on steroids...
Other races do the same kinds of things for their own, give discounts, etc.
White privilege means we are not susceptible to Ebola!
Here's mine -- whenever anyone comes up with a stupid idea, I get to pay for it.
It's kinda like the "privilege" of picking up the check at a restaurant.
I want my white privilege discount card!
Did someone say white privilege???
That’s about it. Whites are the global minority, by far, but it’s white nations, and only white nations, which are expected to allow themselves to be inundated and overwhelmed by immigration. Added to that, whites are expected to pay the bill as the new immigrants demand their “right” to not assimilate, and their “right” to suck off the taxpayer teat for generations.
They want to create the very same conditions as in the countries from whence they came, only have whites pay for it. They refuse to understand that it can’t work that way, it’s not even possible, even if whites were all willing (I say all, because at least a few of us are not willing) to pay for own genocide.
Leftists operate the same way-destroying the states where they gained a majority and power, then moving on to functioning conservative states to do the same thing.
White privilege is another name for the product of social and cultural evolution. In 2-3 thousand years Europeans learned skills, attitudes, values and abilities that create a modern advanced society. Most of the others have limited usual 2-3 hundred years of advance from aboriginal or post aboriginal existence. Sorry, but white privilege as they call it is earned and is the reason why the same minorities have the chance to advance faster than the 2-3 thousand years from where they were to where they are now.
Here is another of those ridiculous workshops. The fact that it’s in Canada is only a mild comfort.
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