California University president: if you're 'light skinned,' you have 'unearned privilege'

campusreform ^ | Dec 10, 2014 | Maggie Lit

[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.”

[Nifster]

The looney left continues to vomit nonsense

[The Toll]

They’re so terribly obvious now though. It’s like someone straight out of Marxist Central Casting.

[DoughtyOne]

It would be interesting to hear this guy tell who he thinks developed this nation for the most part. He acts as if it just happened, no hard work, no sweat and tears...

How dare Whites exist!

People like this aren’t worth the food it takes to keep them alive, a slug to end their misery, or the sewers to distribute their waste.

[I want the USA back]

I do? What are they? Being put at the end of the line in college admissions? Being passed over for a job because the company wanted to hire a member of America’s #1 victim group? Nobody caring if a light-skinned person is beaten to death as part of a “game” played by minorities? Losing a job over a false accusation by a protected class person? Is that what they are? If so, I’ll pass on the privilege.

[Ohioan]

The reason that a College degree has been steadily declining in what it signifies, throughout the last century, is just such muddled thinking, as this supposedly "educated" woman exhibits.

Being respected for the multi-generational level of your families' achievements, is not an "unearned privilege." All sapient and semi-sapient species consciously provide for each new generation. Life is a continuum; and to disparage those who understand that--those who understand the multi-generational nature of human progress in family & cultural development--must be pretty near the top of the list in absolutely stupid, indefensible, utterances.

William Flax

[mjp]

light skin color and high income levels may attract significant unearned privilege.

She has dropped the context of the concept of earn and therefore doesn't understand the meaning of earn.This concept was formed initially to distinguish between two groups of concretes. It was formed to identify a group of men who having been born with white skin, most of them choose in due course to act in a way that they are able satisfy their desires by production and trade, as opposed to a group of men, who having been born with nonwhite skin,a significantly large number of them choose to act as parasites who live on the effort of others as looters and moochers. For this distinction there is enough observational evidence to justify its basis in reality.The first group has earned respectful treatment. While the second group has earned fear and distrust.

[BatGuano]

Thank you G. There is nothing that you should apologize to anyone for. This woman’s post is just another of many that hope to convince white people that what they have earned is only because of their skin color. Thank you for your service.

Promote that skin color envy from your protected chair in academia, Jane. It only serves to keep the “Plantation” well populated by the victims of excess melanin.

[j. earl carter]

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.”

If by "department store", he means a place like Macy's, Gimbel's, or Marshall Fields, he might possibly be right. I wouldn't know as I haven't set foot in that type of store for about 30 years.

If he's talking about a store like K-mart, Wal-mart, or Target, I know he's a liar. You have a better chance of seeing God in one of those stores than you have of seeing an actual employee to help you find something. There is no chance of a K-mart employee following you around the store. There is one guy at the one open cash register, and nobody else.

[Paladin2]

WAY too much Academic Privilege.....

[Paladin2]

Mr.?

There are at least 57 genders.....

[Paladin2]

"What part of that was “White Privilege”?"

Uh, tax slave work for ~ 40% of your working time?

[Resolute Conservative]

Albinos?

[CharlesOConnell]

 
The only difference is the lips.

[dennisw]

The only privileges she’s really worried about having revoked are at the local Chinese buffet. The owner bursts into tears whenever he sees her waddling in through the front doors, same as when he sees the university football team van driving into his parking lot

[P-Marlowe]

Most white people are darker than she is.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

In 25 years whites will be as demonized and hated in this country like the Jews were.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

I think AA recipients who get special considerations despite low qualifications for Universities, Careers, Gov’t Jobs & Contracts, Scholarships, and Loans have an unfair advantage.

This idiot needs to realize we all are born naked and we all lose everything once we die here. What happens in between is really the sum of our decisions.

I’ve known folks born as peasants, literally become billionaires, and I’ve seen NBA/NFL clowns become dirt poor over night. Face it....life is what you make of it. Libs don’t like that fact.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

25 years?

WTH are you thinking? We’re already there!

[alexander_busek]

Let me get this straight: She's issuing a blanket criticism of an entire group of people ("light-skinned") - including Michigan firemen, busboys in Alaska, hotdog stand attendants in Alabama, librarians in Eureka, brain surgeons in New York - based solely upon the amount of melanin in their skin (and, by implication, based upon their race) - and this isn't racism?

Regards,

[minnesota_bound]

This racist should be fired.