Posted on 11/12/2015 12:33:14 PM PST by Theoria
Freedom of speech. Racial inequality. Student activism. Safe spaces.
These are the phrases that have been lobbied about over the past week, in tones both fervent and contemptuous, as University of Missouri students successfully campaigned for the resignation of their system president.
Mizzou is, of course, just the most prominent example. As The Washington Post’s Michael Miller pointed out Tuesday, similar debates are being had and protests held across the country, for instance at Yale University and Ithaca College.
At the center of all these debates is another word: whiteness.
At some universities, there are classes dedicated to understanding the notions of whiteness, white supremacy and what the field’s proponents see as the quiet racism of white people. The professor of one such “whiteness studies†course, Lee Bebout of Arizona State University, announced recently that he would be teaching for the second time a course originally called U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness.
The syllabus described Critical Whiteness Studies as a field “concerned with dismantling white supremacy in part by understanding how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced.†Readings included works by Toni Morrison, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (“Racism without Racistsâ€) and Jane H. Hill (“The Everyday Language of White Racismâ€).
For the coming semester, Bebout will add Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent book “Between the World and Me.â€
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Ok I’m getting offended here.
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Shut up cracker and take your medicine! I’m a southern white boy and have had to take a tablespoon a day for all of my life >:(
Yea!
High Five White Folks, High Five!
re: “And liberals think whitey is going to thank them at the ballot box?”
Plenty of white people will. You know as well as I that “white guilt” permeates our society today.
The unbearable whiteness of being.
“thank-you whites for the modern rational conceptions of natural rights, ordered liberty, limited government, and capitalism”
And virtually every important invention of the 17th, 18th, 19th 20th and 21st centuries.
Yes. And some that were conservative 30-40 years ago, have gone left. We can probably count the conservative ones on 2 hands. 10 out of thousands.
I think the utility of “whiteness” as a club to beat immature YTs with has just about expired.
Dead White Males
White Male Inventions
Michael Savage
December 15, 1999
Trains, planes, cars, rockets, telescopes, tires, telephones, radios, television, electricity, atomic energy, computers, and fax machines. All miracles made possible by the minds and spirits of men with names like Ampere, Bell, Caselli, Edison, Ohm, Faraday, Einstein, Cohen, Teller, Shockley, Hertz, Marconi, Morse, Popov. Ford, Volta, Michelin, Dunlop, Watt, Diesel, Galileo, and other “dead white males.”
All reports indicate that we have a booming economy right now, but few understand why this is so. I hate to disappoint my friends on the radical left, but it has nothing to do with Bonnie and Clyde Clinton or the Democratic Party, or with any other party for that matter. What I’m about to say is tantamount to blasphemy in this politically correct day and age; yet truth is truth. How long are we going to pretend that origins play no role in our world, the origins of the inventions, science, technology, and economics of the world in which we live?
Our present economic boom is due to the revolution in electronics and computer technology. But saying this is not enough, for these things didn’t just spring into existence by themselves. They have traceable origins. And all of our “booms,” throughout history, have the same origins as this one. It’s no mystery. Just look at the list of names in your history books, and their national origins.
The great majority of “booms” past and present have been brought about by the genius and inventiveness of that most “despicable” of genders, the dreaded white male, or, to be exact, by specific, individual white males. This is not to discredit the many contributions coming from non-whites, but fact is fact. Our most important and consequential inventions have come almost exclusively from white males.
Curse me, or all white males, if you wish, that changes nothing. But if you call me a liar, you’ll have to come up with the proof that I’m wrong. Remember, I didn’t say there were no important contributions by non-whites; I said the overwhelming majority. Of course, I know about such things as the Chinese and gunpowder, but they didn’t take it much beyond firecrackers and pyrotechnics. And I know about the pyramids and masonry of South America and the zero of the Arabs.
Would we have atomic physics and electricity if it hadn’t been for the ancient Greek philosophers who, for example, had the idea that all matter consists of tiny atoms? Aristotle (5th century, B.C., 25th century pre P.C.) used electric charges to treat gout! Archimedes perceived the center of gravity of solids, cylinders, and spheres. From the basic discoveries of Greek civilization it went to the Romans and after the fall of Rome, it passed to later Europeans who expanded on this scientific knowledge. In modern times these ideas were developed by such Europeans as Volta, Ampere, Watts, Bell, Edison, and Einstein, who provided the basis for most of the technical wonders of today. All of them dreaded white males.
Maybe you got your enlightenment from one of the Ivy-League institutions of dis-education. Maybe they taught you that it’s all the result of white racism and oppression. That every time a potential Einstein, Edison, or Ford popped up in the Third World, a White hit-squad would swoop down and eliminate him before he had a chance to prove himself. Or maybe their schools refused to teach him in the Ebonics of his day. Or maybe they didn’t have proper daycare facilities. Or maybe our would-be innovator came from a “dysfunctional family.”
But the facts tell us that many of the great men pursued their genius at great personal risk—like the astronomer Galileo, who proved that the earth revolves around the sun. He and other men of genius and courage refused to be suppressed even if it meant their lives. They would permit no race, gender, group or class to keep them from their pursuit of truth and excellence whatever the cost.
If you eliminate, suppress, or debase the while male, you kill the goose that laid the golden egg. If you ace him out with “affirmative” action, exile him from the family, teach him that he’s a blight on mankind, then bon voyage to our society. We will devolve into a turd-world cesspool. Where has there ever before in history been a group of human beings who have brought about the likes of the Magna Carta, the US Constitution, and the countless life-saving and life- improving inventions that we now enjoy?
Now it is certainly true that China did lead the world in technology and commercial inventiveness about 1,000 years ago. They had great coal-mining operations, gunpowder, six-masted sailing ships, and intense commercial enterprise. But it all collapsed because the elites, the long-nailed Mandarins, centralized control—1,000 years before Mao—and crushed the expansion and inventions.
Does this mean we should sit back and let ourselves be governed by someone just because he’s a white male? Of course, it doesn’t. It means simply that we shouldn’t suppress anyone, including white males. Let our God-given gifts run free in a free and just society, free from the oppression and tyranny of social engineers. If anyone has gifts beyond our own, be he a white male or other, be grateful. Maybe we have gifts that in some small way can contribute something of value as well. One way or another, we’re all in the same boat. Few of us have truly outstanding gifts. And most of us have to humbly accept that there are others around who are more gifted than we are. In a democratic society it’s not for Big Brother to decide who shall thrive and who shall struggle in the hive.
Sorry in the left totalitarian 'thugfest' only liberals are allowed to be 'offended'...
Sorry, in the left totalitarian 'thugfest' only liberals are allowed to be 'offended'...
Sunburns.
And dancing.
Sunburns and dancing.
And jumping.
Sunburns, dancing and jumping.
Don’t try to put White Guilt on me.
I see it. The jaws a little heavy.
“Whiteness” is nothing more than sour grapes whining for high IQ and achievement, over the centuries.
Even more paradoxically, these lefties are swallowing whole the invention of dead white males: cultural marxism.
Yet more of the internal inconsistencies of the left.
I constantly remind my white children of all the accomplishments of white people; I won’t have them ever believe that there is anything wrong with being white. It is cause for much pride, and I won’t listen to anything from someone who descends from people who never even had a written alphabet. College sociology classes, designed to broaden your mind to other cultures, simply reinforce the fact that whites (and Asians) are much more advanced than others.
When cultures have 3 numbers (one, two, more than two) or no colors (using variations of the word “hot” or “cold” to describe colors), then their advancement is completely limited...Example (buying a car): I’d like that model with more than two cylinders in a somewhat hot color...
Only racists hold classes as to why one ethnic group is inherently inferior and immoral.
The only difference between now and a hundred years ago is that the tables have turned as to who is on top.
The only society to outlaw and abolish slavery.
The only one to give women equal rights and enforce them, including in conquered nations, like hanging men who burned widows.
The only one to develop industrial civilization, raising most of humanity out of the grinding poverty that was the norm for most of its existence.
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