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.
Shut Up, She Explained.
The brutal annihilation of Western culture and Christianity is the core craving of every Democrat.
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
Looks like an escapee from a Smith Field pork processing plant.
“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.”
Being and asshole is independent of skin color.
Just substitute the word white for black.
This article is a declaration of a race war against white people. I trust I remember her name should I ever cross paths.
JoMa
Well, the little weenie who scribbled this screed can always head out to the African savanna, wear a loincloth and chuck stone spears at warthogs. And you’re not allowed duct tape - a white boys invention - to patch the leaks on your thatched grass hut.
In fact, you’re not allowed to fly back to Africa because planes are another white boy invention. You’ll need to fashion a dugout canoe and paddle back, sweetpea.
Here’s your navigation device/advice - sun rises in the east. Good luck, African princess. Paddle away.
$49,489 USD per year for this college.
Hater and Totalitarian Fascist Leftist.
This is what it looks like folks.
Fat, dumb, and racist is no way to go through life ... but she’s gonna try it anyway.
“t’s already happening. Those two Muslim women who were just elected to Congress are cut from the same cloth as this woman, and this sort of mentality has been dominant in academia and the corporate world and government for some time now.”
Just because a number of toads are elected to Congress doesn’t mean they have power. Alcee Hastings (D-Racist) from Florida has introduced a ban on handguns for 20 years straight. Nothing happened. We need to keep our eye on commie fools like Hastings, but don’t infer power on these America-hating jackels that they don’t have.
I have a granddaughter there.
I’d consider studying abroad if I were a student these days.
“Anyone think this kind of hate doesn’t end in an attempt at genocide or a brutally repressive government?”
Me. Me. Me. I don’t think so.
Take a walk thru any federal bureaucrat office. Then come back and convince me that you, as a general, would be willing to lead these these fat, low-IQ, potato chip-munching jellyfish onto a battlefield.
I wasn’t thinking about her skill at anything....
I was more interested in her being a total liability for a racial or sexual harassment lawsuit with her attitudes and mouth as the cause, which will be a slam dunk for the plaintiff.
I wouldn’t even consider her resume’
She could suffocate a few people and not even know it.
Did Mad-Maxine Waters hire someone to write this?
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