University of Delaware: All Whites in U.S. are Racist

[Caligastia]

http://www.udel.edu/reslife/students/wholenewworld.htm

[DinoDoc]

Sharon Martinas sounds like who your quoting from based on a quick Google search, Cali. If she has anything to do with the University, I don't know.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Skimming those papers, it seems a far, far more nuanced argument than the OP article's "summation". In many parts saying how whites can realize the priviledged situtation they are in.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Sharon Martinas sounds like who your quoting from based on a quick Google search, Cali. If she has anything to do with the University, I don't know.

The quote in my OP is from a pdf of a document with Dr. Shakti Butler's name on it.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Skimming those papers, it seems a far, far more nuanced argument than the OP article's "summation". In many parts saying how whites can realize the priviledged situtation they are in.

It basically says that everything in the U.S. is racist, racist, racist racist, racist...is it so hard to believe that someone who writes this tripe would also write that all whites in the U.S. are racist?

[Omni Rex Draconis]

Originally posted by Caligastia
http://www.udel.edu/reslife/students/wholenewworld.htm

OK, that's better. I was struck by the weirdness as you were, so I did do my research before I made my original comment. It was limited, however, to a few minutes and a trio of search engines.

Looks like the official UofD residence is really into that social engineering thing. Still no big stir from any other groups. Can't even find a UofD response. Why are there no student groups protesting?

Not really upset myself as I have heard it all before. I'm a racist because I'm white; I'm a rapist because I'm male; I'm an imperialist because I was born in the West.

Butler is not the only idiot who completely misses their own hypocritical prejudice.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Caligastia
It basically says that everything in the U.S. is racist, racist, racist racist, racist...is it so hard to believe that someone who writes this tripe would also write that all whites in the U.S. are racist?

So since you are willing to make that leap of faith, that means that the Dr. is? And looking back at the US's history, there are a TON of things about it that were and still are highly racist. Remember, it's less than 50 years since Jim Crow was abolished by the Civil Rights Act of '64.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Omni Rex Draconis


OK, that's better. I was struck by the weirdness as you were, so I did do my research before I made my original comment. It was limited, however, to a few minutes and a trio of search engines.

Looks like the official UofD residence is really into that social engineering thing. Still no big stir from any other groups. Can't even find a UofD response. Why are there no student groups protesting?

Not really upset myself as I have heard it all before. I'm a racist because I'm white; I'm a rapist because I'm male; I'm an imperialist because I was born in the West.

Butler is not the only idiot who completely misses their own hypocritical prejudice.

The sad part is that this is being forced on impressionable young minds. Nothing like being told that your racial group is morally inferior to get you started off in life.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


So since you are willing to make that leap of faith, that means that the Dr. is? And looking back at the US's history, there are a TON of things about it that were and still are highly racist. Remember, it's less than 50 years since Jim Crow was abolished by the Civil Rights Act of '64.

You really have to read and understand the writings I linked you to if you want to see how they essentially say the same thing as the pdf on FIRE.

[Kuciwalker]

http://thefire.org/pdfs/3d0208922083e5d59664be8371ab5f0f.pdf?PHPSESSID=8dca72fbc4579647049492dc11bb650e

PDF containing the quote.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Caligastia
You really have to read and understand the writings I linked you to if you want to see how they essentially say the same thing as the pdf on FIRE.

I've skimmed them and I know what they say. Just because right wing fire breathers want it to say something else doesn't make it so. Are there people that say all whites are racist? Yes... do these? No, not really. It does speak of inherent racism that is still within white culture, but I'm not aware that that is all that controversial.

[Kuciwalker]

Another amusing quote from the same document I linked: "I use 'white supremacy' as a synonym for racism."

[Kuciwalker]

"REVERSE RACISM: A term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege. Those in denial use the term reverse racism to refer to hostile behavior by people of color towards whits, and to affirmative action policies, which allegedly give 'preferential treatment' to people of color over whites. In the U.S., there is no such thing as 'reverse racism'."

[Kuciwalker]

"A NON-RACIST: A non-term. The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systematic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called 'blaming the victim'). Responsibility for perpetuating and legitimizing a racist system rests both on those who actively maintain it, and on those who refuse to challenge it. Silence is consent."

[Lord Avalon]

A. Students will learn about the forms of oppression that are linked with social identity groups.

B. Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society.

A. Like a university?

B. Like by a university?

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