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You're ignorance of the fact that genocide is made possible by an evolution and legitimization of hate rhetoric is what is disgraceful. Ignorance and silence in the face of such BS is what makes something like Nazism possible.
Anybody who thinks there is anything wrong with this course or it's title, is plainly nuts.
Universities are supposed to be a place where common thought is challenged and that all manner of topics be investigated, studied and looked at.
originally posted by: Jamie1
Arizona St. University now offers a course called "The Problem of Whiteness."
Student James Malone raises this issue:
Student James Malone told Campus Reform that such a course “shows the significant double standard of higher education institutions,” noting that the school “would never allow a class talking about the problem of blackness.”
Source
Simple question:
Is it racist to offer a course called "The Problem of Whiteness?"
Would it be racist if the course was called, "The Problem of Blackness?"
Would you take out a student loan so you could take this course?
Have you read or listened in on any of the actual course content? I ask because it seems like you are basing your knowledge of the course based on a paragraph description.
I would agree, but add that "Universities are ideally supposed to be a place where common though is challenged..."
Universities are either money pits for people who think a degree is the end all be all to success, and / or institutions that espouse a Liberal agenda.
The writers would be considered to be similar to the KKK or some backwoods racist
originally posted by: tothetenthpower
From your source:
The university explained Bebout’s class “uses literature and rhetoric to look at how stories shape people’s understanding and experiences of race” while encouraging “students to examine how people talk about – or avoid talking about – race in the contemporary United States.”
Students can expect to “draw on history, literature, speeches and cultural changes – from scholarly texts to humor,” the statement continued, noting the class “is designed to empower students to confront the difficult and often thorny issues that surround us today and reach thoughtful conclusions rather than display gut reactions.”
So that's the course. The name of it, poorly chosen mind you, really doesn't have much to do with it.
As always, people find things of no consequence to be outraged about, just so they can bring up race in a conversation.
~Tenth
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
The writers would be considered to be similar to the KKK or some backwoods racist
Peeps, this is ARIZONA. They are going to do anything BUT bash white people. lol. When have you ever known Arizona-ites to bash the great white majority who never made a mistake in the course of history? lol.
Get a grip. It's not what you think it is. Common sense dictates............ It's a "catchy" title to get students to sign up. Follow the money.
Now, if this were an all-ethnic college, and they had a course like that, then maybe I would give pause......
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
Anybody who thinks there is anything wrong with this course or it's title, is plainly nuts.
Besides, we couldn't possibly know one way or another unless we saw the syllabus.
originally posted by: tothetenthpower
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
It's not a double standard. It's a societal norm that was created by some group of people, treating other groups of people like garbage.
For a very long time. So I see why, people would be more offended at a course titled:
"The problem with Blackness"
vs
"The problem with Whiteness"
It is technically, a double standard, but White people haven't really suffered any oppression, historically, on the level of minorities. It's part of the reason we called them 'minorities' in the first place, cause we were sorta trying to actively remove them all from the Earth at some point or another.
At the very least, turn them into our servants, either physically, mentally, culturally, economically, religiously etc..
And I also understand white people, being a little worried and even apprehensive about that kind of talk, because, let's face it, White people will be the minority in a lot of places, very quickly.
Nobody wants to think about what would happen if the it suddenly because Whites who were oppressed in all those ways by other minorities, or the newly formed majority.
And I'd be worried too, if I actually thought that there was some kind of popular, activist movement who sought to destroy whites.
But there isn't.
So all of this is mostly just 'reverse racism' talk, again, for faux outrage, by people who WANT to actively put race in anything and everything they do.
~Tenth
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
Sigh. If anything, the "flavor" of this course is going to be "the problem with white people is that they are permitting other cultures to infiltrate our country and try to wipe us out.". Probably will have an eye cast towards Hispanics.
Mark my words.
Oh, yeah, you're right. It's wrong to designate an entire state as one thing or another...........Oopsie, as Rick Perry might say. : )
Second, there isn't "reverse racism," there is just racism.
Therefore, racism only is possible against minorities."
Fifth, you and others make these binary arguments in order to justify and not deal with topics like these such as double standards.
While claiming to be against stereotyping, prejudice, hatred, essentialism, based on race, magically people like you turn a blind eye as soon as someone does that towards Whites.
Sixth, when we refuse to look at the universal psychological roots of racism and oppression, we fail to guard against it happening in the future.
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
Okay. Can you give an idea of what you think they might be teaching in this course?
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
Okay. Can you give an idea of what you think they might be teaching in this course?