Black Lives Matter’s DeRay Mckesson’s two-day tenure as a guest lecturer at Yale Divinity School, where students discussed articles such as “In Defense of Looting,” has come to an end. As Campus Reform reports, though, white students at Portland State University will have an entire quarter to challenge and eventually reject their white privilege in Rachel Sanders’ Politics and Fiction course.
Portland State course aims to 'make whiteness strange': http://t.co/WuSUgEYdnl pic.twitter.com/rxfSnvK9wt
— Campus Reform (@campusreform) October 5, 2015
@campusreform Sounds racist, doesn't it!
— KM (@GAB_KMFL) October 5, 2015
Make whiteness strange? In other words, white students will step back, examine their race from a different perspective, and come to question, well, everything. As the syllabus explains:
Whiteness is the lynchpin of structures of racial meaning and racial inequality in the United States. To preserve whiteness is to preserve racial injustice. In this seminar we will examine the historical development and contemporary dynamics of racial inequality through the lens of white privilege …
Sanders’ students will have the opportunity to examine such questions as, “What is white normativity, and how does it interact with other normative orders, including male normativity and heteronormativity?” They will also ask themselves, “How can we develop self-critical racial identities and approaches to experiences of skin privilege? What would it take to dismantle whiteness, and what would whites and beneficiaries of skin privilege lose in this process?” And they’ll have the privilege of learning all this from what looks to be a professor with a fair share of skin privilege herself.
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Campus Reform’s Peter Hasson reports that similar courses are being offered at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Binghamton University, and the University of Southern California.
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@campusreform : liberal education is a freakin ' joke, but, those falling for this BS are INSANE! The hate of the left NEVER ENDS!
— Cyndi Bradley (@cyndi_bradley) October 5, 2015
@campusreform What kind of degree would one even have to teach nonsense like this? Perhaps a diploma in non pigmented dermis studies?
— Rob Braswell (@RobWvurob) October 6, 2015
@campusreform How many of the Leftwing indoctrinated will take this course. It's funny how leftys scream racism & then come up w/this.
— Socialists are Beggars (@DeplorableBUM) October 5, 2015
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