Oh come one now. Don't go with a hell no. GO BIG!
Posted on 02/08/2019 10:33:24 AM PST by TigerClaws
When you ask a question at a lecture, is it secretly just your opinion ending with the phrase “do you agree?” If so, your name is something like Jake, or Chad, or Alex, and you were taught that your voice is the most important in every room. Somewhere along your academic journey, you decided your search for intellectual validation was more important than the actual exchange of information. Now how do you expect to actually learn anything?
American society tells men, but especially white men, that their opinions have merit and that their voice is valuable, but after four years of listening to white boys in college, I am not so convinced. In my time at Dickinson I have listened to probably hundreds of white boys talk. It feels incessant. From classes and lectures, to the news and politics, there is an endless line of white boys waiting to share their opinions on the state of feminism in America, whether the LGBTQ+ population finally has enough rights, the merits of capitalism, etc. The list of what white boys think they are qualified to talk about is endless. Something very few of them seem to understand is that their (ill-informed, uncritical) opinions do not constitute truth. In fact, most often their opinions aren’t even original. White boys spout the narrative of dominant ideologies and pretend they’re hot takes instead of the same misleading garbage shoved down our throats by American institutions from birth.
I am so g****mned tired of listening to white boys. I cannot describe to you how frustrating it is to be forced to listen to a white boy explain his take on the Black experience in the Obama-era. Hey Brian, I’m an actual Black woman alive right now with a brain. In what world would your understanding of my life carry more weight than my understanding? Unfortunately, it is this world, where white men debate the pain of other people for fun and then take away their rights. The second thing most white boys seem not to understand is that they do not exist separate from the rest of the world. You do not speak alone, you speak with the weight of every other white man who has spoken over a woman, erased the contributions of queer people from history, or denigrated “broken English” as unintelligent. You speak with the weight of policies and laws meant to forever define intelligence by how it measures up to the bros of America.
So, should white boys still be allowed to share their “opinions”? Should we be forced to listen? In honor of Black History Month, I’m gonna go with a hell no. Go find someone whose perspective has been buried or ignored and listen to them, raise up their voice. To all the Chrises, Ryans, Olivers, and Seans out there, I encourage you to critically examine where your viewpoints come from, read a text that challenges you without looking for reasons to dismiss it, and maybe try listening from now on.
You mean like Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Kamala Harris, Stacy Abrams?
I have no doubt in my mind that they would order the extermination of White Christians if given that power.
I guess she thinks every black kid is named Lasheeka or Ja’Kal’D’Qaz or one of those other made-up names that are so popular among blacks.
“In what world would your understanding of my life carry more weight than my understanding?”
As she lectures me on my life.
American studies, with a minor in women’s studies and gender.
But then again, she gets a free pass to find a job - I suggest government or community organizing.
She was probably sitting on a small pile of white boys when this pic was taken.
Oh come one now. Don't go with a hell no. GO BIG!
This hateful person is extremely racist and sexist. If she does not wise up (an unlikely outcome), she’s going to die alone (or with lots of cats), and she deserves that fate. Note: As an employer, I would have spotted this when checking her background, in the unlikely event that she got that far. I wouldn’t hire her for even the most menial of tasks with that attitude.
Hey, here’s a thought: If one receives more in benefits than one pays in taxes, then one should not be allowed to talk.
Has any white boy ever tried to out-talk a black woman?
It can’t be done. It’s a physical impossibility.
Anyone think this kind of hate doesn’t end in an attempt at genocide or a brutally repressive government? I say, “an attempt”.
Tell you what, you ignorant arrogant cxxx:
1) You can, right now, quit using anything we white MEN invented or developed. See how you like it.
2) You want to shut us up? Bring it, bitch.
3) Or, you could thank us for making a better world and letting you live in it.
Oh I know. Getting worse by the day.
I don’t know what the grievance was in this video but I just found this one:
Look at how hostile they are to him and then they turn it around and try to make out that he is the one being aggressive.
“Black History Month” ? I guess I missed WHITE history month.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. Madonna Ciccone
This is from the video of Justify My Love (1990) and I have never found an earlier source thus have to credit her as the origin.
My point? Males have been forced into this position. We seek women’s approval, walk through a dangerous gauntlet of acceptable male speech and behavior every day at work and school (did you acccidentally compliment a woman? Demeaning, sexist, you are on report for a violation. Did you say “girl” instead of woman? Did you assume you could accomplish something rather than ask the woman boss for her permission? All day. Every day.)
As others have said, it is terrible for a young man today to try dating a woman. She holds all the cards. If she changes her mind later or sees you with a new love, she can get revenge by pressing sexual assault charges or simply destroying your professional career.
A quote I heard two weeks ago:
All males now have to believe that they have to be grateful to get any sex at any time.
Is this “Shut White Boys Up” week of black history month? There was a similar screed at Yale posted earlier.
bfl
I'll shut up if you stop reaching for my wallet and my guns.
Is the measure of success rapidly burping up words, or saying something meaningful and intelligent?
Three guesses on who she voted for in 2016. The first two don't count! Way to be "inclusive", beyotch.
The real question here is should the racist soiled toilet tissue, published by Dickson college, continue to be allowed to be called a “newspaper”.
White boys and the girls who support them can go here and those who don't want to listen to white boys can go there.
Everyone will be free to live without having to listen to people they don't agree with.
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