Posted on 05/27/2014 12:14:15 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The politics of faux victimization are spiraling out of control at a community college in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where several white students, their black professor and irritated administrators have one-upped each other with complaints, reprimands and now a lawsuit.
The trouble began in English professor Shannon Gibney’s Introduction to Mass Communications class at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Though the class ostensibly has little to do with race, Gibney considers herself an activist on racial issues, and frequently invokes white privilege and oppression during class time, according to her students. (She has previously taught classes on race and gender.)
Recently, several white students announced that they had had enough with Gibney’s incessant racial screed. They interrupted her during a lecture, and said, “Why do we have to talk about this in every class? Why do we have to talk about this?” according to Gibney’s account of the incident, which was recorded by the City College News.
Gibney felt put on the spot, but told the students not to take matters personally.
“We are not talking about all white people, or you white people in general,” she told them. “We are talking about whiteness as a system of oppression.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this failed to provide comfort to the white students. Next, Gibney invited them to file a racial harassment complaint with the college if they were so offended.
So they did.
Last week, the college reprimanded Gibney and accused of her creating a hostile work environment for white students.
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Minnesotans elected Al Franken. Any other questions?
This almost unreadable, the Daily Caller keeps wanting me to view their advertisements, and the page is moving slow as a turtle.
Well, natch!
It’s about time.
I am glad they reprimanded the teacher. If she continues to teach such racist garbage, she should be fired.
Have you seen our Governor (Goofy) Dayton or our Junior Senator, the be-diapered Al FranKlown? Our other Senator, Klobuchar, may actually be simple-minded.
Politically, stupid is a compliment to Minnesota.
You may have heard we just spent valuable tax dollars to rename the Asian Carp the Invasive Carp just in case someone's little feelers were hurt (with no evidence of such).
Yeah, its called Civilization and there are consequences when you can not or will not abide by its rules.
professors like her are refugees from the real world. If she could work and contribute to society she would have done so.
Gibney felt put on the spot, but told the students not to take matters personally.Just IMAGINE if we flipped the ethnicities here. Imagine a white professor popping off repeatedly about cultural "blackness" and responding to (black) objectors that hey, I'm not talking about ALL blacks or YOU black people PERSONALLY, so, shut up.
“We are not talking about all white people, or you white people in general,” she told them. “We are talking about whiteness as a system of oppression.”
“This woman would be better suited as an ant in an ant colony. It really is the socialist way.”
Not at all; the ants would make her actually work...she’s a grasshopper.
ah. so because two students questioned the persistent deviation from course syllabus, they need reeducation?? alrighty then
Yeah, I do. The guy genuinely looked surprised when the PVs* in the audience murmured their displeasure.
I wish to God he would have said something like:
1) "You People" as in You People 'in the audience'."(hooking fingers to describe quotes) "Why is it that I can say that to any other non-black audience and they instinctively know what I mean? You see what happens when you view everything through race-colored glasses?"
or
2) "How many of "You People" belong to a group that has 'Black' in the title? Raise of hands please." (A sea of hands go up.)
So, you identify with a group that singles you out as black, you re-segregate yourselves on campus, vilify your successful brothers for "Actin' White", you go out of your way to isolate yourself from our culture, and then complain when someone refers to you as 'You People'? You can't have it both ways. Come back to me when you've made up your mind."
I was on good terms with a black kid where I worked and he slammed Perot for that. I went into my spiel in 2) and that was the end of the friendship.
* Perpetual Victims
“We are not talking about all black people, or you black people in general...we are talking about blackness as a system of rape and murder”.
Imagine how that would fly...
All this nonsense is just part of a concerted effort to continue to preserve and enhance the victim status of minorities. Sort of like 'institutional racism' and all the other inventions that serve the purpose of perpetuating victim status as overt racism is rarely seen any longer.
The teacher betrays her lack of basic language skills in the sentence above. She said "in general" which is in direct contradiction with the context. She would have said "specifically" were she truly literate.
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