Point Man Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group. Entire story here. Copy of the curriculum here. All I can say is I'm glad I don't go to the University of Delaware. Edit: After this was publicized, The University of Delaware dropped the program. Edit 2: Curriculum link fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Rider Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 You know, it's not when non-whites stop pushing for equality that the civil rights movement dies, it's when non-white groups start pushing for non-white supremacy and "white guilt". But then again it's the generation that much of non-whites were brought up in. Somewhere after king the attitude switched from "lets be as equals" to "you're grandpa screwed up, you owe me." Civil rights isn't important any more is people can make some money. And I hate the attitude taken by many in my own party(democrat) who support this attitude instead of saying "STFU" to these people who continue to spread this attitude that non-whites can do no wrong. It's just as bigoted and discriminatory as what they're accusing whites of. Yet, because the attitude that they can do no wrong is so prevalent, the supporters of the idea just can't see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediAthos Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Wow...just wow....I'll say one thing, the university has intestinal fortitude to try something like that even if it is a bunch of crap. I hope they aren't fond of that particular program because I'd wager it's on its way out the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobQel-Droma Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I just love our education program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inyri Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Well hopefully we can count on the University of Delaware to reject the "if you've got a problem, blame it on the nearest American" mentality, given its location. Although you never know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 You know, is it just me, or do I sniff just a hint of hypocrisy? Maybe a little bit of becoming what they hate the most? I wonder what they'd think if whites started wearing collars and picking cotton. And, no, this is not one of my off-color jokes. EDIT: And...what in the hell? Either he's very close, or the President is a white guy. This is almost as weird as a black guy joining the KKK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Rider Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 This is almost as weird as a black guy joining the KKK. Why are we talking about Clarence Thomas again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Galt Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 That's just plain stupid. We get our rights by being human(and thereby sentient), not by having a certain complexion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentScope001 Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 What? Aren't all humans racist (in that they have unconsisus biases), in a sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Okay, starting down. Huh? What does Clarence Thomas have to do with the Ku Klux Klan? Everyone knows racism is stupid, John. Wrong, Silentscope, in a sense. Some of us genuinely don't give a flying flip about what one person's race is. Now, yes, there is a degree of separation, always will be - on average, people are going to tend to stick within their own little groups. It's harder for a white to understand an Arab or Asian mindset than it is to understand another white fellow's, but that's a different situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeroldoth Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 The class is just one instance of a national push by Sharon Martinas of the Challenging White Supremacy (CWS) Workshop. From their "About Us": Challenging White Supremacy (CWS) workshop organizers believe that the most effective way to create fundamental social change in the U.S. is by building mass-based, multi-racial grassroots movements led by radical activists of color. We also believe that the major barrier to creating these movements is racism or white supremacy. One way to challenge white supremacy is to do anti-racist training workshops in our own communities. CWS has worked in the broad-based radical, multi-racial community of the Bay Area since 1993. CWS workshops have been designed by a group of white anti-racist organizers. We believe our special responsibility is to help white social justice activists become principled and effective anti-racist organizers -- both to challenge our white privilege and to work for racial justice in all our social justice work. We think that anti-racist training and organizing with white social justice activists complements and supports grassroots organizing and leadership development in communities of color. Both kinds of work are necessary to help build mass-based, multi-racial social justice movements. http://www.cwsworkshop.org/resources/ARAgenda.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I'm really getting tired of people whining about Racism. For the most part, institutionalized Racism has been eradicated. Yeah, there are hholdouts left. always gonna be, but good gravy, this is getting ridiculous. Of course, they're just milking it for every donation and piece of political power they can get. They're like Televangelists, only instead of Paul Crouch and Benny Hinn being their figureheads, it's people like Al Sharpton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Rider Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Huh? What does Clarence Thomas have to do with the Ku Klux Klan? Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court Judge guy, was known to be rather racist against blacks, even though he himself was black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totenkopf Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Well, it's probably no coincidence that many of the institutions of "higher" learning in this country are probably run by pot addled refugees from the 60s-70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamqd Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 "Blacks cant be Racist"....... This is a term Created by Blacks obviously, the only reason it stands is because, white people are scared to speak now, if I say Whites cant be racist, does that make it true? Blacks dont have the power to act on there racism, therefore there not racist?! "I dont like you Whiteboy, But I haven't got enough Political power to beat you up, So run along now". I found this the other day, it's about white Guilt, quite interesting... http://streams.wpsx.psu.edu/White_Guilt10102.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balderdash Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 "Blacks cant be Racist"....... This is a term Created by Blacks obviously, the only reason it stands is because, white people are scared to speak now, if I say Whites cant be racist, does that make it true? Blacks dont have the power to act on there racism, therefore there not racist?! "I dont like you Whiteboy, But I haven't got enough Political power to beat you up, So run along now". I found this the other day, it's about white Guilt, quite interesting... http://streams.wpsx.psu.edu/White_Guilt10102.html If whites are afraid to speak, then it begs the question: what would they say if they were not afraid? And the idea that a minority group can't oppress a majority group is not new, and has been an accepted sociological paradigm for decades. It depends on how you define racism, though - the word has always had a loose definition, probably because it is such an inflammatory subject. If you understand racism to mean any kind of discrimination against a person or a group of people, based on their race, then minorities can be called racist. If you define racism as systemically oppressing another race, then it's perfectly acceptable, and indeed a logical conclusion, to say that minorities cannot be racist. The former is the laymen definition and the latter is more commonly taught at universities and discussed by sociologists. This is very different to saying that all whites are racist, which seems to me to be completely out of left field, and honestly, a bit of a travesty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamqd Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Agreed, I came off a bit uneducated in my last post, but sometimes we are made to feel like Satan in the Holy land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Skywalker Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I lol and facepalm at this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weiser_Cain Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I always wonder if some of you guy are just waiting for something like this so you can pounce, airing all your grievances about the 'horrors' of 'forced political correctness'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth InSidious Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Ooh, really? I hadn't noticed. As SilentScope said, we all have ridiculous, irrational prejudices of one kind or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weiser_Cain Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I have a very rational hatred of cheese Please don't post spam. ~tk102 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ-W4 Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 To me, the whole programme appears to be an April fool's joke where someone got the date entirely wrong. Maybe the guys at Delaware uni should start by studying something easy, like a calendar, for instance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 No, no, see, I'd be more inclined to think the lawsuit for $3 Quadrillion was a joke. This is about par for the course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 White guilt. [/thread] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Rider Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 If you define racism as systemically oppressing another race, then it's perfectly acceptable, and indeed a logical conclusion, to say that minorities cannot be racist. The former is the laymen definition and the latter is more commonly taught at universities and discussed by sociologists. But to an extent, the pervasiveness of the "white guilt" concept is oppression of others in a form by a minority. Oppressin, in a nutshell, is to make one set of peoples less than and or subserviant to another set. "White Guilt" treats whites like they are lesser people because of their "inherant racism". Regardless of what universities would like me to believe, racism will always be, IMO, any form of discimination based on abstract physical colorations or places of birth. Remember, whites discriminated against other whites for a long time before blacks really came into the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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