Video teaches that all whites are racist, minorities can't be racist. A college required its athletes to watch it.

The Blaze ^ | March 18, 2024 | Dave Urbanski

[Twotone]

Davidson College — a private institution in North Carolina — required its athletes to watch a video that teaches that all white people are racist and that racial minorities can't be racist, the College Fix reported.

The Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse — an alumni-run free-speech organization — exposed and denounced the “I’m Not Racist … Am I?” video, the outlet said.

"In one clip of the film that we uncovered is the unequivocal repetition that all white people are racist, and people of color cannot be racist,” the group said, according to the College Fix.

Here's one clip:

The discussion shown in the clip differentiates between racism and bigotry, noting that racial minorities can be guilty of bigotry against whites — expressing "personal meanness" and "hate" — but not racism against whites, which the discussion facilitators define as access to power through state-sanctioned systems that they say benefit white people.

"We're saying that, collectively, blacks, Latinos, and other groups do not have the power to collectively oppress white people through the use of our systems," another facilitator told the group.

The Davidsonians pushed back against the video's message, telling the College Fix that "the students with whom we have spoken about this film found it offensive, divisive, and personally insulting."

The group also told the outlet that it "does not object to discussions among teammates or anyone on any topic, including weaponized definitions of racism. Compelling them to do so, guided only by the extremist views of the film producer, is a hazardous way to go about it."

The Davidsonians wondered to the College Fix, “Will those teammates classified as ‘the oppressed’ and ‘the oppressor’ continue to trust and respect each other?” It added to the outlet a concern that the "endorsement of such a film by the Athletic Department could signal to the scholar-athletes what views the institution does, and does not require, and thus have a silencing effect on them."

The group pointed to a survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression that indicated 66 percent of Davidson students “regularly avoid informed dissent in the classroom.”

In response to the video and other concerns, the organization started a petition late last month to advocate for student’s rights and oppose future instances of ideological oppression.

The petition also points to “numerous” class syllabi containing “controversial ‘anti-oppression’ behaviors unrelated to the course subject” as another cause for concern. These included Spanish 101, multivariable calculus, and cell biology classes, according to the organization.

“Some of these anti-oppression statements make sweeping demands that students ‘actively identify and confront oppressive behaviors,’” the College Fix said, citing the petition.

The outlet said the Davidsonians also found syllabi statements such as, “We can only identify how power and privilege play out when we are conscious and committed to understanding how white supremacy, patriarchy, classism, heterosexism, cisgenderism, ableism, and all other systems of oppression affect each of us." What did the college have to say?

The College Fix said Davidson College — which had just under 2,000 undergraduates in the fall of 2022 — defended the video and syllabi in an email earlier this month.

“Students encounter many ideas, perspectives, and beliefs about the world at college, and even though a reading or event is assigned, that does not mean that anyone at the college expects students to agree with every idea they encounter,” the statement said, according to the outlet. “Learning – and teamwork – is about exploring different ideas, countering with better ones, and expanding knowledge.”

But the Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse noted to the College Fix that the college’s “anti-oppression directives obviously run counter” to its stated commitment to freedom of expression.

[Verginius Rufus]

So when will Davidson College change its name? It’s named for a white man.

[T-Bird45]

“The petition also points to “numerous” class syllabi containing “controversial ‘anti-oppression’ behaviors unrelated to the course subject” as another cause for concern. These included Spanish 101, multivariable calculus, and cell biology classes, according to the organization.”

I would love to see an explanation from the instructors & syllabi writers on the connection of those classes to anti-oppression in the course sequence. Must have an excess of instructional time.

[Gen.Blather]

When a company I worked for made us sit through similar propaganda I’m pretty sure it had the opposite effect than intended.

[antidemoncrat]

“Davidson College — a private institution in North Carolina — required its athletes to watch a video that teaches that all white people are racist and that racial minorities can’t be racist”

I suppose that every day when they show black illegal aliens crossing the border it’s because they are all masochist that have heard we are systemically racists and are coming here to be abused.

[dragnet2]

[jpp113]

Ugh, give some warning next time. Where’s the eye bleach?

[dragnet2]

C’mon. Look at that pleasant face...It’s one of compassion and understanding...☺

[NetAddicted]

OMG! My family is from NC. Bloody Demonicrats are over running this state. Barf!

[daniel1212]

Wokeism works to awaken all to a world in which:

The unborn are not human persons, which status is attained based upon location and functionality;
A women is under no obligation to provide care for the "product of conception," or suffer inconvenience due it, even if said product is the result of the women's "open border," but has an unequivocal right to expel the uninvited or unplanned, unwanted (by her, not others) product, up until said product is outside the womb (may be extended under "my house, my choice" right);
A country should have open borders, and provide care for all who entered the country, even if unplanned, or unwanted by some, and or if illegally due to current laws, and should be treated as citizens; regardless of costs;
Termination of the elderly, infirm, dysfunctional and or depressed is to be sought such as by means of seductive promotion of assisted suicide;
Gender is fluid, not biological;
Skin color is not biological but ideological, since conservatives are not black;
Blacks cannot be racist;
Homosexual relations are not immoral nor overall an unhealthy practice;
"Hate speech" is any form of expression animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion - except for Christianity - or sexual orientation;"
Negative expressions or opposition to homosexual relations by any individual or a group for any reason is hate speech, especially when expressed by white Christians, and which means they are to be labeled "homophobic;"
All white persons are racist;
Liberals cannot be guilty of hate speech;
Arithmetic is racist;
Cultural appropriation is insensitive and racist, except when practiced by a liberal voter base;
Since there is no absolute Truth, then Liberal Pluralism is the one true ideology, while those who affirm their religion or ideology is the one true ideology are intolerant.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is correct since it has as its goal that of Disparagement, Exclusion of and Injustices against any who express opposition to the one true ideology of the Left.
Conservatives are the cause of all wars; if America laid down its weapons then all nations would follow suit;
If all guns are outlawed, then only outlaws would have guns;
Traditional police should be disarmed or abolished, and replaced by liberal armed social workers;
Any persons who are in any way linked to accused Jan. 6 protesters should be arrested and imprisoned by force of arms in obedience to Democrats;
All persons who question Climageddon and or Covid-19 vaccine efficacy or who engage in subjectively-defined (by the Left) "hate speech" for any reason are to be treated as threats to the nation, placed under surveillance and have all speech and correspondence monitored and censored as need be.
No artist of any kind should be allowed to refuse to create custom works which they feel are morally offensive if such works are requested by those who are part of a certain protected class due to their feelings;
Democracy as we know it must be abolished in order to save Democracy;