Posted on 12/11/2014 10:31:29 AM PST by dennisw
In a Dec. 5 op-ed, the president of California State University (CSU) claimed if you are “light skinned” you have “significant unearned privilege” and routinely think less of those who are different than yourself.
In her piece, “Privilege at The Beach,”—referencing the Long Beach area where the school resides—Jane Close Conoley, a white woman herself, asserts that “light skin color and high income levels may attract significant unearned privilege.” Those who qualify for such privilege, often unknowingly exert distrust and “lower expectations of behavior” on those of another skin color.
“Those who are less affluent with darker skin or from other cultures can be targets of micro to macro aggressions, distrust, and low expectations for behavior.” “This privilege can manifest itself in numerous ways that afford automatic trust, deference, and security,” writes Conoley, in the piece first noticed by the Pundit Press. “Those who are less affluent with darker skin or from other cultures can be targets of micro to macro aggressions, distrust, and low expectations for behavior.”
Conoley claims that if a non-white person walks into a department store they may be followed by employees and their presence is often times acknowledged with “suspicion and fear.”
“Those with privilege are often unaware of this discrepancy, as people treat them with respect—as all individuals should be treated,” Conoley writes. “When they enter department stores they are greeted with smiles and offers of help. When they ask questions or request additional service, they are answered cordially. On approach, they are seen as benign.”
“Those without such privilege are thrown, merely by circumstances mainly out of their control, into the opposite context. They may be followed when entering a high-end department store or have their purchasing attempts viewed with suspicion. Others may view their presence or approach with suspicion and fear.”
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” Not a sane or honest politician in either state.”
No God-fearing atheists, either.
“White privilege” ain’t putting any stacks of money in my freezer.
The way things are having Dark skin is what gets you into and pays for college for free. My daughter couldn’t go because she was White. Her grant dried up. Illegals have a better chance because of misplaced white guilt some rich liberals project onto the poor working whites who don’t want to sponge off the government.
She appears to be accusing others of committing thought crimes. This is a popular pastime of liberal fascists, easy to say and impossible for the accused to disprove.
“You have sinned!”
“No I haven’t!”
“Prove it!”
Do parents not know they are paying ungodly sums to send their young adults to radical communist reeducation camps at this point?
Its all the white folks' fault.
No sale.
Substitute “Jews” for “whites” and this stuff could have been written by Goebbels. Not buying it.
The bigots are at it again.
Unearned??
My mother and father worked very hard at their jobs their entire life. They did this to give me a better life and help me get my education. I am 47 and I have had a job of some sort since I was 10....and believe me, I remind my 13 year old of that every day. With the money I worked for and some help from my parents, I was able to get an education. I used this job to find a good paying job that I work hard at every day. I am at a point in my life where I would consider myself somewhat comfortable. I teach my kids to work hard everyday and if you want something you have to work for it. How is any of that unearned? I have earned everything I have gotten n my life.
Welfare is unearned. Affirmative Action is unearned. Government handouts are unearned.
Shouldn’t it be called “everybody but black” privilege?
“...if you are “light skinned” you have “significant unearned privilege” and routinely think less of those who are different than yourself.”
Well, Ms. Conoley, I’m light skinned and I certainly think less of you!
It was my grandfathers’ privilege to come here and work like animals for pennies a day in a dark, dirty and dangerous steel mill.
What a privilege!!
This ivory-tower, pin-headed LIB academic is truly insane. He should resign immediately, give all his assets to “the poor” and roam the country dressed in sack cloth, beating himself with shrub branches...and beg for forgiveness. Because this moron is tenured, he won’t do that. Instead, he will continue using his “privilege” to draw a salary of hundreds of thousands from the tax payers who are forced to put up with his ignorance and his spewed bile. What a complete “privileged” degenerate loser. conoley, you fool, stop stealing our money and polluting civilization by your malignant presence. Have a pleasant Christmas.
Is there a “jew” privilege going around?
All due respect majority of Cali people are mix raced have this person look at 2000 census duh
Leftist academic paternalism cripples minority students for life.
He was on Finding your roots with Henry Lloyd gates on PBS that dude you could tell he was mixed
He had about so much Native American, white and Afrian American in other words he is mutt LOL!
Following this idiot’s argument. If you work hard and become prosperous, you have a “privilege” over the “less fortunate”. I can’t stop thinking this tenured fool steals taxpayers’ money by being paid. I bet his immediate family shuns him.
The insane bastard believes whites should not benefit from the work of their parents, yet he is all for not requiring black students to achieve to be successful. It is the commie way don’tchaknow.
What a stupid, racist thing to say. Parents should be removing their children from that school, otherwise, silence equals not just consent, but support for her twisted views.
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