Thursday, March 6, 2014

U.C. Berkeley Has Found the Answer to White Privilege


Campus Reform
"A student group at University of California - Berkeley is hosting a “White Anti-Racist Training” to teach white people how to confront white privilege.”
The event, titled “White Anti-Racist Training: Deconstructing Whiteness in Women's and Queer Communities PART II” is put on by Envision, an official school discussion group. 
 The group is “designed to equip white students, faculty and staff with the tools to analyze white privilege and to challenge racism within and beyond our campus women's and queer communities,” according to a description on the college’s official website.
 “Come take part in our effort to create a community of self-education and accountability.”
The March 16 training will be the second that Envision has hosted — but the event description promises to take the “conversation to the next level” from what was discussed in the fall.
Previous discussion topics have included how to “navigate spaces that are focused on people of color as white people” and “fully participate without taking up too much space,” a lesson on how “transgender white people can be stronger allies and anti-racists in support of transgender people of color,” and “how white privilege shows up in LGBTQ community spaces and how to confront it.”
The group focuses on white students to take the “burden off of people of color to educate white people about racism and oppression,” according to the official description listed on the college website."

3 comments:

  1. It says something about the world when you can put up a piece like this which sounds like a well written satire, but is actually a real event. Where do I sign up??

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    1. The lunatic fringe is on the move. This is just a drop in the bucket.
      Even I couldn't have come up with a satirical idea like this.

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  2. I think that we are approaching that point when things come crashing down around the heads of the left. It has been my experience that the political pendulum swings to extremes, as do most human endeavors. You know you are approaching a return swing when whichever group is in power becomes patently ridiculous. We saw it with Nixon, then with Clinton, now with Obama. Americans tend to like the middle, when either extreme is reached the reaction is to drive the pendulum back to the middle, but, of course, it never stops there. A dose of right wing insanity might not be a bad thing.

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