Posted on 04/04/2015 11:50:26 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Edited on 04/04/2015 2:06:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A student at Appalachian State University says she was cyber-bullied after she called out a dormitory's "Check Your Privilege" bulletin board.
The board showed memes to depict so-called white privilege, heterosexual privilege, Christian privilege, and able-bodied privilege, among others.
A female student, Laurel Littler, objected to the board's apparent shaming, so she posted a photo of it on her Facebook page and was surprised to receive some harsh responses.
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...
At 18, you are an adult-that means you think for yourself and assume responsibility for your actions-and parents do not have the obligation to pay for any of your stuff unless they chose to, or to protect you. And as long as a child of mine lives under my roof, no matter how old they are, my rules are the only ones-my way or the highway...
If my kid had not gone to the college my husband and I chose, she would have been paying for it all by her little self-so she was happy to go where liberal bias was minimal.
Have you been to a college or university lately? They actually have boards and postings celebrating all that you mentioned in multiple buildings.
Kate Upton has a boob privilege. She ought to be ashamed of herself. /s
GAWD, this is so unbelievably stupid, I can’t believe people are falling for it...oh wait...I guess I can.
They're getting more and more blatant all the time. Everyone else is protected and precious and must never be offended in the least. Whites, however, deserve cyber-bullying. How much more clear must it get? Whites and Christians are despised, and are in for increasingly serious persecution.
That’s why you should never post anything controversial on Facebook.
Nevertheless, the Board sounds like hate speech and micro-aggression to me. Hopefully someone filed a complaint with the Diversity Commissar so it could be ignored.
more like macro aggression
I would be “enriching the content” on that board in the middle of the night by replacing it with more relevant ‘check your privilege” categories:
Check your Liberal privilege here
Check your intolerance privilege here
Check your totalitarian privilege here
Check your racist privilege here, etc.
And DEFINITELY a copy on the RA’s door!
Colleges and universities are cesspools for radicals with worthless Departments (Black, One-Eyed Lesbian Studies).
Isn’t this where Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse is headquartered? I would assume they are one of the major employers in the area.
Makes this all the more absurd.
The problem with blowback is that most of the white privilege blather has been concoted by guilt-ridden, self-loathing white fools in the academic world. Didn't notice whether the article gave the race of the RA who put made the white privilege bulletin board. I'd bet it was a white person.
There needs to be blowback, but there are so many maleducated whites around now who buy into this stuff, and wallow in self-righteous guilt, that the problem is probably much deeper than many might guess. And many minorities are latching on to this as another weapon in their arsenal against whites and another way to preserve and enhance their victim status.
Some things will have to change before there is significant blowback.
So now they need to change the titles of those boards to “RECOGNIZE YOUR BLACK PRIVILEGE”.
Whenever somebody says that to me I ask them how the Native Americans open borders policy worked out for them.
Yes. I have not heard why he is located in Boone ~ 3 hours away from his father's home just east of Asheville, NC.
I always "assumed" Billy and son Franklin affiliated with the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention). I may well be wrong on that.
4/01/2015 - Southern Baptists Grapple with Racist History
The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, was established in 1845 because of a disagreement about slavery. Its founders, who wanted to allow slaveholders as missionaries, could not have imagined what transpired In Nashville last week.
“We are not the state church of the Confederate States of America,” the president of the denomination’s influential Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), Russell Moore, proclaimed to an audience of about 500 people, most of them Baptist leaders. “The cross and the Confederate battle flag cannot co-exist without one setting the other on fire.”
Moore’s speech was the rousing opening salvo at a conference on “the gospel and racial reconciliation” hosted by the ERLC, which is devoted to public policy and culture. Initially, the event’s organizers planned a conference to discuss bioethics. But after protests erupted after a grand jury’s decision in December not to indict a police officer in the choking death of Eric Garner in New York, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) decided to shift course.
By many measures, it was a remarkable event for an organization better known for its interest in culture-war topics like sexuality and religious freedom. Talks and panels tackled white privilege, persistent poverty, immigration reform, the perils of gentrification and racial disparities in the criminal-justice system. (One African-American panelist said police officers had pulled guns on him, another said he was handcuffed while police searched for a suspect who looked nothing like him.) Several speakers respectfully mentioned the Department of Justice’s scathing report on law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri, where unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed last summer by a white police officer. Eighty percent of the denomination’s congregations are majority white, but 45 percent of the speakers at the conference were nonwhite. They included young men and older black preachers, as well as an Iranian-American convert from Islam who chastised those who celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden.
But many still question whether social conservatives–with a long history of strong support for law enforcement and resistance to systemic critiques of racism–are in a position to lead on racial issues. Southern Baptists have a particularly rocky road, with their pro-slavery roots and, more than a century later, their leadership’s widespread failure to support the civil rights movement.
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The SBC has been wrestling with its ugly racial past for at least 20 years. In 1995 it passed a resolution on racial reconciliation that set out to “lament and repudiate” its roles in slavery and the civil rights movement. (The longtime ERLC president behind that document, Richard Land, was nudged into announcing his retirement in 2012 after making intemperate public remarks about the Trayvon Martin case. Land was in the audience at the conference last week, but he did not speak publicly.) Also in 2012 the SBC elected its first black president, a Louisiana pastor, Fred Luter, whose speech at last week’s conference compared racism to more traditional scourges of adultery, pornography and abortion.
Moore, a white native of Mississippi, has become an outspoken advocate on racial issues since he took over from Land two years ago. He has spoken often about his goal to integrate his denomination’s 50,000 congregations. And after the grand jury decision in the Garner case, he quickly responded online, writing that “a government that can choke a man to death on video for selling cigarettes is not a government living up to a biblical definition of justice or any recognizable definition of justice.” Moore told reporters on Friday, “One of the good things in a very bad year when it comes to racial tensions in America is there have been more conversations among Christians thinking these things through.”
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The final session of the ERLC conference belonged to Thabiti Anyabwile, a black pastor from Washington, D.C., who called for confession and accountability regarding racism. “When we come to racial reconciliation and the image of God, we not only have to take seriously what it means to be made in the image of God–we also have to take seriously the seriousness of sin,” he said. After the crowd sang a full-throated version of “Amazing Grace,” Moore took the stage for one final prayer. He ended with the words “Give us the power to fight.”
“Good grief! I’m so glad that I am not in college these days. I worry about my grandchildren.”
Take heart... Both my kids went to AppState and both survived (graduated 2 & 5 years ago). Neither came out bent, broken or liberal. They got a kick out of sending me tidbits of the liberal garbage that went on there. They’d just laugh.
Both believe in gun control...having a solid grip and taking the proper stance. Heck, one just joined the Army.
I imagine the largest employer in the Boone area is Appalachian State University with 871 academic staff and ~18,000 students.
“Whites and Christians are despised, and are in for increasingly serious persecution.”
Not really. Confront one of these leftist wimps in a dark parking lot and read the riot act to the fascist ape. You’ll understand afterwards.
Good one.
Second what you said I am getting so old, it don’t matter much. That must mean you are young.
Hmm, I would suspect there is a pretty big town-gown divide.
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