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

[DaShi]

Well, you did prove my point.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Pekka
This is true. I would like to let you on a secret. It's not really Finnish supremacy as much it is a supremacy of few selected Finns.

Now, I'm not going to suggest that I'm one of them. In fact, I going to flat out tell you I am a part of that group. We have mastered quantum physics and applications of it, we have traveled throughout the cosmos. I can literally box my ego and send it to you, if you'd like a copy.

Excellent stuff.

Please send me a copy of your ego Pekka. I'll pay the postage. And if you could put some of that cool acid you're dropping in the box too that would be wonderful.

In the immortal words of Sydney Greenstreet's Kasper Gutman in 'Maltese Falcon', "You are a character, sir".

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Pekka
You notice a distinct feeling of familiarity when you read my posts. In fact, you read the letters, combine together and use the knowledge you have on the system of language, you take the understanding and compare it to the meanings we have given to each word depending on the context and relation to other words. Then you interpret the implications and come to a conclusion, sometimes understanding what was said, perhaps agreeing or disagreeing, but sometimes you are left confused.

However, the letters you are now combining and interpreting their relation to each other feels familiar to you. It is not the actual composition of them, it is the distinct feeling of familiarity that makes you feel comfortable, even though sometimes a little disturbed. This is becase I have raised some thoughts, that disturb you, when you compare that to your knowledge, values, experiences, attitude and so forth. But it still seems quite familiar. This is because I exist in other levels than just the traditional sense of existance. LIke I said. We can kill you with a single thought. Do you think that the letter "i" was capitalized by an accident in the few sentences back? Very unlikely.

Should you ever write a book, Pekka, I'd buy it in a second. This text reads like a bit of really good literature.

[Pekka]

Wern, not really, you just felt very familiar with it

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Wycoff
My wife had to take one of these racist white guilt course during her graduate studies. The "only whites can be racist" mantra seems to be widespread in sociology departments.

A friend of mine (Austrian) was at Oklahoma University for a semester as an exchange student, and out of interest she took some African American identity course because she was genuinely interested into what problems they have to confront, how they deal with it, etc. At the end, she considered it as a pretty scary experience, since she (the only "white" in the class) was labeled from the very start as the oppressor and confronted with very weird conceptions and stereotypes of European society ("you don't have Black people over there, you Nazis wouldn't let them in"). She decided to stay, however, which was basically only possible after they made her comply fully with group identity, which included repeating "I'm proud of my African American heritage" (and she's really pale) dozens of time, and nodding when being told that everything on earth was originally invented by Africans. It was rather bizarre.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Pekka
Wern, not really, you just felt very familiar with it

Tell me about it, H. Pekka Lovecraft.

[Heresson]

:shAme:

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by DaShi
Well, you did prove my point.

DaShi just GePap'd GePap

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III
A friend of mine (Austrian) was at Oklahoma University for a semester as an exchange student, and out of interest she took some African American identity course because she was genuinely interested into what problems they have to confront, how they deal with it, etc. At the end, she considered it as a pretty scary experience, since she (the only "white" in the class) was labeled from the very start as the oppressor and confronted with very weird conceptions and stereotypes of European society ("you don't have Black people over there, you Nazis wouldn't let them in"). She decided to stay, however, which was basically only possible after they made her comply fully with group identity, which included repeating "I'm proud of my African American heritage" (and she's really pale) dozens of time, and nodding when being told that everything on earth was originally invented by Africans. It was rather bizarre.

Wow. They should film classes like that and put them up on Youtube.

[Caligastia]

Looks like U of D are having a sudden change of heart. Must have been those scary "fake" PDFs eh Imran?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/thefirecache/8585.html

[Kuciwalker]

Clearly that link is faked too

[Imran Siddiqui]

If you actually read the link (well, especially the Del's President's part):

While I believe that recent press accounts misrepresent the purpose of the residential life program at the University of Delaware, there are questions about its practices that must be addressed and there are reasons for concern that the actual purpose is not being fulfilled.

The concern for the fulfillment purpose can easily come from the linked articles on the site, rather than the "all white people are racist" statements (I believe those may be the misrepresentation he's referring to) that yet fail to have independent proof, at least from the people who are pushing it here.

Since when has independent verification been such an onerous request?

[Kuciwalker]

If you actually read the link (well, especially the Del's President's part):

I did, and it reads like a perfectly good explanation of "we accidentally let a ****** write our RA education program, sorry." Which is how I characterized it at the beginning...

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by GePap

And how it shouldn't be done, and then some start talking about poor oppressed white people, and then the talk about "diversity" starts, and all of this from a bunch of people who can generally with significant accuracy be described as white males, that most oppressed of groups.

Where do I fit in?

I'm not white. Sure, I'm male, and I may come from a tiny socio-econo-culturo-religio-educationo-intellectual elite, whose power over every bit of society is wildly out of all proportion to its numbers, but how does that make me in any way "white"?

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III


A friend of mine (Austrian) was at Oklahoma University for a semester as an exchange student, and out of interest she took some African American identity course because she was genuinely interested into what problems they have to confront, how they deal with it, etc. At the end, she considered it as a pretty scary experience, since she (the only "white" in the class) was labeled from the very start as the oppressor and confronted with very weird conceptions and stereotypes of European society ("you don't have Black people over there, you Nazis wouldn't let them in"). She decided to stay, however, which was basically only possible after they made her comply fully with group identity, which included repeating "I'm proud of my African American heritage" (and she's really pale) dozens of time, and nodding when being told that everything on earth was originally invented by Africans. It was rather bizarre.

But she was lucky enough to have a choice, and to be old enough to make it.

I had to face this nonsense since pretty much the day the "Social Sciences" (a general rule of thumb: any discipline which needs to put the word "Science" in front of it to gain respectability, isn't) were introduced. Which was since around I was six or seven years old. And there was absolutely no choice about it. Confirm or fail, was the mantra.

Male? Check.
Middle-class or above? Check.
(Supposedly) Aryan? Check.
Hindu? Check.
Upper-caste? Check.
Brahmin? Check.

Of course, considering that all of us in our bunch were "oppressors" (fit at least three of the above criterion), we weren't much bothered.