Current Events > Conservatives are having a MELTDOWN over a WHITE RACISM Course!!

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Conservatives are having a meltdown after a new course called "White Racism" is being offered at a Florida University!!

Sociology professor Ted Thornhill is defending the course at Florida Gulf Coast University stating its premise against critics who say it targets white students. He said "Much evidence, both historical and sociological, shows the US has been and remains a white supremacist society. That is, a racially stratified socieety wehre whiteness is more highly valued and therefore associated with greater life chances"

He said it would cover scholarship documenting that state of affairs and stated "My White Racism course is not anti-white; it is anti-white racism. Clearly, not all white people are racists. some are even anti-racist. However, all people racialized as white derive, in some measures, material, psychological benefits by virtue of being racialized as white"

People have praised the course and the professor but of course, conservatives are not happy campers as crybaby Alex Pilkington, an accounting major and treasurer of the FGCU College Republicans said "I would have preferred a name more like "Systemic Racism" because giving it "White Racism" as the name of the class i feel like it's intentional that you are trying to make white people look at the class a certain way"

Ted also says that white students will benefit from his course because "Too many Americans, especially whites, are cocooned in a "bubble of unreality" as it concerns racial matters. My job as a sociology professor is, in part, to facilitate students learning toward a data-informed understanding of the social world. And that is the goal of my White Racism course"

Are you offended by this course?

Ted -

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School -

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mrduckbear posted...

"I would have preferred a name more like "Systemic Racism" because giving it "White Racism" as the name of the class i feel like it's intentional that you are trying to make white people look at the class a certain way"

eh. not offended in the slightest but I can't find fault in him feeling that way
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This isn't a big deal. Schools offer plenty of courses on things like mythology and other fictional topics. This will fit right in.
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With so much evidence it should be easy to show any that applies in the year 2017

DifferentialEquation posted...

This isn't a big deal. Schools offer plenty of courses on things like mythology and other fictional topics. This will fit right in.

So you wouldnt have a problem with a Black racism or Brown racism course?

Sage JJ posted...

DifferentialEquation posted...

This isn't a big deal. Schools offer plenty of courses on things like mythology and other fictional topics. This will fit right in.

So you wouldnt have a problem with a Black racism or Brown racism course?

That would be really stupid considering the history of this country.

Sage JJ posted...

DifferentialEquation posted...

This isn't a big deal. Schools offer plenty of courses on things like mythology and other fictional topics. This will fit right in.

So you wouldnt have a problem with a Black racism or Brown racism course?

I'd have a problem with any course that is deliberately named to be racially antagonistic. The analogy to this course would be one called Black Crime, and you can bet liberals would be reacting the same way about that as conservatives are about this.

All you had to do was call the course "A History of Racism in the US," and it'd have been fine. But the name was deliberately chosen for attention, and unnecessary race baiting like this should be ridiculed.
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Stop the press liberals been racist, oh wait thats normal.

The Admiral posted...

Sage JJ posted...

DifferentialEquation posted...

This isn't a big deal. Schools offer plenty of courses on things like mythology and other fictional topics. This will fit right in.

So you wouldnt have a problem with a Black racism or Brown racism course?

I'd have a problem with any course that is deliberately named to be racially antagonistic. The analogy to this course would be one called Black Crime, and you can bet liberals would be reacting the same way about that as conservatives are about this.

All you had to do was call the course "A History of Racism in the US," and it'd have been fine. But the name was deliberately chosen for attention, and unnecessary race baiting like this should be ridiculed.

Fair enough
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