Posted on 10/15/2021 12:06:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — Colby College is banning discrimination based on caste, a system of inherited social class, becoming one of the nation’s earliest colleges to do so.
The private liberal arts college revised its nondiscrimination policy to add caste to its list of protections for the campus community.
The efforts were led by a professor who took an interest in caste discrimination across the country and realized the college needed to recognize it as a form of discrimination, the Bangor Daily News reported.
“You have to first name what it is to say: This exists, we name it, we stand against it,” said Sonja Thomas, associate professor and department chair of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Colby.
While caste is often associated with South Asia, such class-based systems come into play across religions, cultures and countries, and even in technology industries and academia, Thomas said.
Colby doesn’t have a large student population from South Asia, but it’s increasing the diversity of its student population, so “it’s important that we take a step back, reflect on on the polices that we call upon to promote inclusivity and safeguard members of the community,” said Tayo Clyburn, dean of diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Oh, thank goodness.
Does caste include vaccination status?
What? What? I thought all cultures were equal?
“Tayo Clyburn, dean of diversity, equity and inclusion”
“Sonja Thomas, department chair of women’s, gender and sexuality studies”
...the 2 most USELESS and WORTHLESS a**holes on campus.
I think it’s about time that they banned casts.
All those thespians running and jumping and dressed up like cats.
Good.
Let’s keep that racist Indian crap out of the US.
Indians can be very racist and very entitled.
So, he’s “casting dispersions”?
Another college that is not interested in learning.
Maybe it’s about leg casts.
Why don’t they like leg casts?
It’s just about healing?
What’s so bad about that.
I had a cast once, all my friends signed it...cool.
I have no idea what the alleged problem is that they are talking about or what their alleged remedy consists of.
Is this some subtle way of discriminating against or stigmatizing Asian students, and/or of reducing their numbers on campus in favor of less-qualified blacks?
Isn’t our nation already discriminating against “high earners and large corporations” with the recent bill to press the IRS to investigate banking transactions over $600? In the eyes of the media and progressives, you are guilty until proven innocent if you are part of the upper 1% or 5% or 20%. Heck 50% pay no taxes, so lawmakers have already authorized the discriminatory use of the caste system.
It sounds good until they start redefining castes. Right now I think people are thinking about the Hindu culture (and there is a lot of discrimination among castes here in the US, especially in the tech industry when those Brahmins get into management positions). But I suspect “caste” will soon be broadened to include income levels, white privilege, the new family privilege, appearance, talents, and so forth as long as it enables more people to claim victimhood.
It would appear that this Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies is making Western value judgments and is overtly disrespecting non Western cultural traditions. Soon she will be cancelled by outraged people around the world. Don’t you just hate it when the woke get inadvertently trapped in their own webs.
Did they get the idea from their extension campus in Mumbai?
Some of the biggest snobs I ever met were Colby Grads.
There is no problem. This is just virtue signaling.
“I have no idea what the alleged problem is that they are talking about or what their alleged remedy consists of.”
The problem is people from India coming over here and bringing with them their system of categorizing each other according to caste. I hate to say it, but Colby College might be doing the right thing here. It sounds crazy to hear one Indian say, “That other Indian is of a lower caste than me, so we can’t socialize,” etc., but unfortunately, it’s a very real thing. I know a guy from India, nice enough fellow, very successful in his career and he talks about other Indians’ castes all the time. It’s definitely a thing.
Does that mean no more discrimination against deplorables, irredeemables, and bitter clingers? Of course not.
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