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Warning: White people singing Rihanna could cause ‘microaggressions’
FOX ^ | 4/11/2016

Posted on 04/12/2016 4:56:41 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

You can’t be singing Rihanna’s “Umbrella” if you happen to be a white fella – fella.

That’s what kids learned during a lesson on “privilege” and “microaggressions” in a human relations theory class at the University of Oklahoma.

Ah, yes. There’s nothing quite like a bit of white-shaming courtesy of the American taxpayers.

“I was told as a white woman it’s insulting and a microaggression for me to cover or sing a Rihanna song because I’m not from Barbados,” a student who was in the class told me. “I was literally told to go sing the Star-Spangled Banner.”

The student, who asked not to be identified, sent me copies of both assignments – including a 100-item checklist to determine how much “privilege” you have.

For example, you’ve got privilege if “a stranger has never asked to touch my hair, or asked if it is real.”

Straight, white guys who have a job, vacation in Cabo, and go to church on Sunday are “very privileged.” Atheists, Muslims and anyone who works at a fast-food joint would be considered under-privileged.

The student who reached out to me wants to work in human resources – and the class is mandatory.

“They teach you that if you are not part of the minority you cannot be discriminated against,” she said. “A black person cannot be racist to a white person. A female cannot be sexist towards a man because men are the majority.”

Here’s a sampling of the 100-question privilege checklist:

· I am white.

· I have never been told I would “burn in hell” for my sexual orientation.

· I still identify as the gender I was born in.

· I work in a salaried job.

· I have never done my taxes myself.

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To: Altura Ct.
Dumb A$$es

If whites followed that advice then black music sales would drop to nothing.

41 posted on 04/12/2016 6:42:38 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Not really.

Read about the Church of the East -- the Assyrian church (a.k.a. the Holy Church of the East) - in the 8th century this had more people and a wider population than the church in Europe.

The missionaries converted people and preached and pastored to people in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran, India, all the way to Mongolia and western China.

What happened to this? Islam -- Timur-e-Lang, the greatest jihadi warrior killed most -- he was a master of genocide, having killed 5% of the world's population (more than GEnghis khan, Stalin, Mao etc.)

The largest Christian group today is the Syriac Church

And the word of God today is by Christians of different ethnic backgrounds.

42 posted on 04/12/2016 6:43:07 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Talking about Europeans spreading Christianity worldwide -- the only ones who did this consistently were the Spanish and the Portuguese.

If the English, French and Dutch had even a fraction of the zeal of the Iberians, then much of the world would be Christian

Instead the Dutch did nothing, nothing to convert people -- preferring to just grab the wealth of Indonesia.

The French and English were slightly better in proselytisation, but still woefully behind the IBerians.

43 posted on 04/12/2016 6:44:39 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

oh and the Russians also spread Christians into Siberia and Alaska


44 posted on 04/12/2016 6:44:59 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: VideoDoctor
yes, this is stupid -- we could also say that since Rihanna is from Barbados, she comes from a completely different culture than African Americans -- Caribbean blacks are hard working and have a sense of separate culture.

So any person NOT of Caribbean origin should be banned from singing Rihanna songs

45 posted on 04/12/2016 6:48:13 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

Christians as you put it, were killed off by Timur in that region. Hence, since then Europe has been the standard bearer, up until the early 20th Century.


46 posted on 04/12/2016 6:50:06 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Cronos

Oh you must be Catholic?
No wonder....


47 posted on 04/12/2016 6:54:15 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Altura Ct.

Racist.


48 posted on 04/12/2016 7:09:15 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Altura Ct.

Pay ASCAP and BMI dues and you can sing anything you want.


49 posted on 04/12/2016 7:21:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Altura Ct.

The most troubling thing about this is that it happened in OKLAHOMA!??!


50 posted on 04/12/2016 7:26:15 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Altura Ct.

I’m about to microagress by posting the chorus to Umbrella

[Chorus]
When the sun shines, we’ll shine together
Told you I’d be here forever
Said I’ll always be a friend
Took an oath I’ma stick it out ‘til the end
Now that it’s raining more than ever
Know that we’ll still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh)
Under my umbrella
(Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)


51 posted on 04/12/2016 7:36:33 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Mears
I couldn’t figure out how to describe their singing “style” but you have done it for me.

They save up all the leftover letters and syllables they don't use when trying to speak English then add them to their singing.


52 posted on 04/12/2016 7:39:50 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: xp38
I’m about to microagress by posting the chorus to Umbrella


53 posted on 04/12/2016 7:42:47 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: Altura Ct.

I didn’t know what rihanna sounded like until I recently saw an awful kids cartoon movie about aliens. The movie was unbearable and I was not impressed with her singing.


54 posted on 04/12/2016 8:18:02 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Mears

Um, no.. in this age of newspeak, if you are a member of the “oppressed class”, you can co-opt any other culture’s norms and moors, but the inverse is not true (you cannot co-opt any other cultures’ anything if you are viewed as the traditional oppressor).

Having said that, there have been plenty of Caucasian people put into slavery and oppressed by plenty of other groups, so you have to be among the current crop of acceptable oppressed (newspeak strikes again).


55 posted on 04/12/2016 8:42:38 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: Altura Ct.
And random bear attacks while snowboarding. Surprisingly, not even polar bear attacks.
56 posted on 04/12/2016 8:58:43 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: LambSlave

See post #22


57 posted on 04/12/2016 9:15:57 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

Darn, too slow!


58 posted on 04/12/2016 9:25:12 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: T-Bird45

George Will and most of the clowns at NR who have given away the moral level of conflict.


59 posted on 04/12/2016 9:28:54 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Doing your own taxes is a micro-aggression? Help me, I’m oppressed!!


60 posted on 04/12/2016 9:47:03 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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