Only in the Diversity Hell that is modern academia can such a thing occur:
“Refusing Institutional Whiteness: Possibilities, Alternatives, and Beyond”
…with the kicker:
“Whiteness continues to be a crucial problem in our English department.”
Also English, but that’s no doubt the topic of next month’s seminar.
To put this into perspective, let’s just imagine a statement: “Blackness continues to be a crucial problem in our Blues Studies department.”
Or we don’t imagine anything, but instead just make the necessary preparations.
I couldn’t give a shit about anything to do with the big colleges that are rampantly spreading statism. Nor should the parents of any kids that want to pursue a higher education.
2 words: community college
Our home schooled son received a degree at one and has been gainfully employed and upwardly mobile ever since.
But what can you expect from parents whose sole goal in sending their kids to the public indoctrination systems is free day care, which is the reason they still act like whiney brats when the get to state college. The payback for that stupidity is a trashed credit report.
I’d like to go to this thing and ask them “Is it ok to be white?”. Check out the bios of the people holding the talk. I’ve never seen such a meaningless word salad before in my life.
The latest fad seems to be blacks demanding reparations for slavery and blaming all their shortcomings on that. All right. I will pay a half-million dollars to each of my slaves, and free them immediately. Unfortunately for the melanin-enhanced grubbers, I don’t now nor have I ever owned a slave. On the up side, I believe that all blacks are entitled to a similar amount for every year in which they were slaves.
However, I think you owe us whites royalties for the use of our Western civilization, which can be regarded as a sort of software. There should be a licensing fee and royalties paid. After all, every time you use a computer, or a door knob, a flush toilet or a door on hinges, you are using something invented by us. Every time you sharpen a pencil, or use one, or read or write, you infringe our copyrights. We have spent millennia coming up with useful things that improve quality of life – soap, steel, electric power, internal combustion engine, antibiotics, anesthesia, machines to make your smart phones and the shirt on your back, and it’s only fair that we receive recompense for our inventions.
Let’s call it even and you STFU and make better use of the stuff we’ve made available for you, if you can quit whining, get off your ass and work for it.
Is .edu completely irredeemable at this point? I see no alternative other than to raze the whole rotten abomination to the ground and start afresh.
Yes, and you are correct.
Non-whites in the English department is cultural appropriation.