Posted on 02/17/2016 7:03:53 AM PST by simpson96
White college students are undergoing a weekly "deconstructing whiteness" program at Northwestern University.
The "6-part workshop series for undergraduate students who self-identify as white" launched in January and runs through March, according to the university's website. Students enrolled chose to do so - it is voluntary.
A spokesman for the prestigious private university located outside Chicago declined to give The College Fix details on the program, such as how many students enrolled and how it’s been received so far.
"It's part of Northwestern's Social Justice Education effort to create learning opportunities for our students," Bob Rowley, a spokesman for the campus, told The College Fix in an email, providing a link to the social justice webpage and adding: "Beyond that, we don't have anything more for you on it."
According to a report in the campus newspaper, the workshops focus on "terminology used in conversations of race, the history and meaning of whiteness, white guilt and the difference between intellectualizing and feeling racism."
"There's a lot of space on this campus for conversations to happen around issues of privilege and specifically around issues of white privilege," Michele Enos, assistant director of the university's Social Justice Education office, told The Daily Northwestern.
A poster advertising the workshop series (shown above) posed rhetorical questions such as" "What is my role in doing anti-racist work?" or "why do I have to feel guilty about being white?" and "how can I talk about race as a white person?"
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And at the end of the class, they will all still be white.
So what’s the point?
Just for giggles, how would one think about a program called “Deconstructing Blackness?”
The fact of the matter is that, here, ‘deconstructing’ means ‘delegitimizing’. Call it what it is. Racism.
Doesn’t a prism do that?
Stalin would be impressed.
So we don’t have to work and just get a visa card for food, clothing and housing? Is that how it works?
To make their self-inflicted brainwashing effective, they better avoid mirrors from now on.
This is a racist university.
Is this a course to deconstruct white culture? In favor of what?
Hopefully one of these days whites will get up off their knees.
After each class they must say in a loud voice, “Thank you sir! May I have another?”. ;-)
Privilege means ‘a special right’....so the university buys into the victim mentality of blacks, that they are not ahead in life because white people get special rights and you do not. Complete garbage.
Don’t forget the constant railing against being discriminated against and kept down by hate-filled racists, especially if one happens to be a rapper-performance artist who has made lots of money off the struggling poor by railing against discrimination and real stuff.
Do people pay to go to these schools?
Couldn’t you just spend the money on heroin or something more useful?
this is why Obama won by 6% after a disastrous first term and this is why some people don’t get how hard it is going to be to beat a Democrat any Democrat
Nothing but racism. Whites need to tell these racists to get bent.
"We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul."
-- 1984
Colleges are not in the business of teaching life skills. They are in the business of paving the way for this country to become a communist country.
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Egad and little fishes!
I’m guessing the point is to have them willingly, meekly lay their heads on the chopping block.
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