Free speech has officially failed.
Reports are pouring in that the politically-correct politics surrounding
the term ‘white privilege’ are gaining traction at many universities.
Plenty of professors at various colleges across the nation are confronting
students with racial and ethnic issues, and decimating their grades if they
aren’t sensitive enough to the use of delicate terminology.
Campus
Reform reported on political correctness gone too far:
Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly
told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as “illegal
alien,” “male,” and “female,” or if they fail to “defer” to
non-white students.
According to the syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular
Culture” class, students risk a failing grade if they use any common
descriptors that Breikss considers “oppressive and hateful language.”
At another school, a course in comparative ethnic cultures docks students
who fail to recognize “white privilege” and use terms like “illegal alien” to
describe people who circumvented immigration laws and came to this country
without permission.
According to [Professor Rebecca Fowler’s] syllabus, students will
lose one point every time they use the words “illegal alien” or
“illegals” rather than the preferred terms of “‘undocumented’
migrants/immigrants/persons.” Throughout the course, Fowler says, students
will “come to recognize how white privilege functions in
everyday social structures and institutions.”
“The socio-legal production of migrant illegality works to systematically
dehumanize and exploit these brown bodies for their labor,” Fowler continued.
Washington State University professor John Streamas takes it even further in his detailed
syllabus:
• Consider others’ views. Reflect on your own social location, your
privileges and power.
• Learn a historically informed definition of racism, and challenge all
racist discourse.
• Reflect your grasp of history and social relations by respecting shy and
quiet classmates, and by deferring to the experiences of people of color.
• Finally, understand and consider the rage of people who are victims of
systematic injustice. James Baldwin wrote that people of color have an
obligation to feel rage over this nation’s history of racism.
Streamus even mentioned controversial host Glenn Beck by name, suggesting
that Beck would have to “endure 500 years of racism” to “earn the right” to
use the N-word.
A lawyer for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education questioned
the hypersensitive approach towards multicultural learning – with frequently
changing “acceptable” code words that are sometimes dizzying and cloudy in
their meaning:
How are students supposed to approach these sensitive and controversial
materials at all, let alone to keep an open mind, if they have to fear that a
misconstrued statement, or one that unreasonably offends a classmate will
lead to a grade reduction or even removal from class?”
As Infowars reported, past proposals for dealing
with sensitivity towards race and gender have included bizarre suggestions
that students wear a “white privilege bracelet” to remind them of their
privilege and to speak out to others about the issue.
Why have things shifted from tolerance and equality to an atmosphere of
white guilt that is somehow supposed to be transferred to individuals who
have no part in the centuries of racist institutions?
Are these policies seeking to end racism, or to point it in a new, brave
direction?
Surely, these are examples of political correctness gone too far, and not
part of a proper education…
Read more:
New MTV Show Publicly Shames White People For “What They’ve
Done In America”
No Whites Allowed: Student Booted From Conference Because Of
Skin Color: “Because I was white they would feel unsafe?”
TIME Justifies Ferguson Violence as Response to White
Privilege: “Riots Are a Necessary Part of Evolution of Society”
