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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Five Times Higher Ed. Cried "White Supremacy" In 2018 Campus Reform rounded up the top five instances of students and professors branding others "white supremacist" or teaching about the concept in class.. Innstitutions from Salisbury University in Maryland, all the way to California State University-Dominguez Hills have made the list. 1. That time some conservative students tried to buy coffee in their MAGA hats Students at Fordham University staged a protest against white supremacy. The hour-and-a-half-long protest consisted of chants like hate speech is not free speech and signs reading White Supremacy Kills." Fordhams policies and protection of white supremacy is putting people at risk, one student shouted into a megaphone. Another explained that the protest was meant to elicit a response from university administration. When asked to provide evidence of white supremacy on their campus, protesters recalled an incident to The Fordham Ram in which a student in charge of an on-campus coffee shop was disciplined for asking College Republicans to leave because of their Make America Great Again gear. Protesters said showing up to the coffee house in Trump swag was threatening behavior and argued that Fordhams actions constituted protection of white supremacy. 2. The professor that went full #Resist in her course syllabus California State University-Dominguez Hills professor Dr. Brooke Mascagni included in her course syllabus an explanation that President Donald Trump won the 2016 election by appealing to hatred and bigotry." The syllabus went on to blame the January government shutdown on Republicans. "Moreover, the Republican Party controls the executive and legislative branches of government, yet couldnt manage to keep the government running on the one year anniversary of Trumps inauguration, it said. And, oh yeah, Russia interfered with the U.S. electoral process and our president is under investigation for obstruction of justice, Mascagni added. "Future generations will wonder how the people of what was once considered the greatest democracy in the world elected a white supremacist, misogynist, narcissistic, volatile, belligerent, uninformed, stubborn, failed businessman and orange reality star to the highest office, she wrote. 3. The 'White Supremacy' checklist In case you arent sure whether or not youre a white supremacist, a Linfield College English professor made a handy checklist to help you figure it out. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt published her checklist in a January Inside Higher Edop-ed meant to help individuals determine whether or not they were actively supporting white supremacy. Transgressions on the list included working in a position of power in a predominantly white institution and not making an effort to change the white supremacist power structures within your departments, committees and institutional decision-making process. A desire to suggest stellar (mostly men) and obviously white colleagues for promotions and recognition also helps to aid white supremacy, according to Dutt-Ballerstadt. This type of thinking lends itself to an unacceptable "logic of meritocracy that is built on this racist assumption that everyone has had the same access and opportunities. 4. The white supremacy event held in response to Ben Shapiros campus visit Jewish conservative commentator Ben Shapiro paid a visit to the University of Minnesota for a speaking engagement. The event spurred an ample amount of controversy on campus, as Shapiros speeches often do. In response to this controversy, the universitys Womens Center scheduled its own event titled White Supremacy in the Age of Trump: An Anti-Racist Teach-In directly before Shapiros speech. The event had the stated goal of mapping the connections between white extremist groups and American conservatism today, as well as "unpacking the ways white supremacy manifests itself in systems, language, and culture. We do not know whether Ben Shapiro is a white supremacist, organizers of the event told Campus Reform. What we know is that we have received an outpouring of support. 5. The Pyramid of White Supremacy' Students at Marylands Salisbury University are required to take a course called Diversity and the Self in order to obtain an elementary education major. This year, the course employed the use of a Pyramid of White Supremacy, which ranked different actions that, in theory, allow white supremacy to exist. The actions were placed in a hierarchy, with indifference on the bottom, all the way up to genocide at the top. In a pyramid, every brick depends upon the one below it for support, a caption explained. If the bricks at the bottom are removed, the whole structure comes tumbling down. Actions such as remaining apolitical, saying things like politics doesnt affect me, and avoiding confrontation with racist family members" were classified as indifference. The next level was titled minimization, and included things like speaking over people of color, or believing in a post-racial society. Step by step, the pyramid increased in severity, from veiled racism such as the bootstrap theory of lifting oneself up by ones own bootstraps, to discrimination such as stop and frisk, to calls for violence such as cross burning, until the analogy comes to a close with the genocide section. Salisbury students were quizzed on the pyramid, which implied that phrases such as Why cant we all just get along? were complicit in supporting the mass murder of individuals based on race. This class was extremely difficult to get through if you did not think like a liberal. Instead of teaching diversity, this class taught us that being white was a bad thing, one student told Campus Reform. We were told that we were only privileged because we are white and basically we did not actually work for what we have. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
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This professor belongs in the land of fruits and nuts. ;)
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