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#StopWhitePeople2K16
Unfortunately I did not make up this hashtag. In fact, it’s not a hashtag in a social media search-term way. It’s the name of a course for Residential Assistants (what I remember calling dorm parents) at SUNY Binghamton.
Let me repeat: #StopWhitePeople2K16 is a training course for those responsible for our kids domiciles while at college.
According to the Binghamton Review “the event was meant to teach RA’s about “understanding diversity, privilege, and the society we function within.” This type of rhetoric is commonplace in the university, and has become inseparable from the concept of social justice.”
#StopWhitePeople2K16 has its supporters. If you read the comment section under the Review article, you will find justification for these reeducation camps.
This is a public university funded not only by students and parents, but taxpayers. This public institution houses a not insignificant number of college-educated people who believe what is necessary to combat bigotry and racism is a racist and bigoted course called #StopWhitePeople2K16.
If a course called #StopBlack(Gay, Muslim, fill in the blank)People2K16 this story would not have just caught a gust of social media wind, it would have been above the fold on every newspaper and leading news cycles for a week (a lifetime in today’s fast-paced media).
Until America (pointing at you, mainstream media) questions the left’s double standard on racism, the divide between races will only widen. When President Obama reportedly invites Al “White interloper,” “Don’t give the Jew a dime,” and “Burn, Cracker, burn” Sharpton to the White House over 100 times, it suggests that those on the left do not acknowledge black racism. It sends a message to our youth that white racism is the crux of our social problems and therefore we should only empathize with black racists.
And the result is that #AllLivesMatter is considered hate speech.
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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/death-movement-conservatism/
I think that is the big fear. Which is why I think most people and conservatives especially are sticking their head in the sand and hoping that this will all go away.
Fascinating piece by Rod Dreher, along with the linked articles. Thanks.
I have two reactions. First, judging only from from these excerpts both Charles Murray and Dreher lived in a dream world. They both believed that the majority of everyday people were really altruistically selfless and would allow an unlimited number of others to be given what the majority thought they had had to earn. Perhaps that’s an aspect of Murray’s and Dreher’s ideas of American Exceptionalism.
Second, the conclusions drawn – accurately I believe – about conservative principles and the majority of voters, which is that those principles have very little appeal, should cause an agonizing reappraisal of those principles, as well as a realization among certain conservatives that no matter what happens in 2016 their time is up.
But it probably won’t.
CNN is reporting that the whole thing was “‘Ironic.'”
I do not think I believe them.
The university is running hard away from this.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/25/health/stop-white-people-suny-binghamton-trnd/
Blacks are convinced that whites hate them and the racist cops are killing them because of it. The MSM tells them it is so, their leaders tell them it is so, their heroes tell them it is so, the Democrats tell them it is so, their eyes tell them it is so. Anything that involves killing cops and sticking it to the white man they are cool with. As for the police, anything they will do will be wrong. The smartest thing LEOs can do is go back to the doughnut shops.
I submit that paying protection to external enemies is a lesser collapse of the will than is paying the salaries of internal enemies. That’s what Maumauing was about.
The solution is nasty but needs to be done. Start publishing a list and circulate it to hiring manager and executives at small, mid sized and large corporations listing universities with such nonsense as having “degrees of questionable value”
If you go after and cause doubt in the value of the product by pointing out administration sanctioned stupidity it can have a policing effect.
I understand Mizzou has a very reduced freshman class this year after the shenanigans last year.
Tie the behavior to product value and destroy their brand.
Incompetent and idiotic administrations cannot produce good product over time.
And to think that a school that at one time produced graduates like Camille Paglia and TKC1101, (frequently mistaken for each other) has sunk so low.
That’s one handsome lady!
I wish there was the will for line item budgeting, but it’s the same argument we have been volleying for at least 30 years. However, the issue is bigger than courage at the state assembly. It’s cultural and as someone with soon to be college-aged kids, why would I focus on this issue until the issue affects me (or more directly, my kids)?
College is temporary in most people’s lives. Unless you are teaching or in admin you are unlikely to be exposed to this. Even students are there but for a short 4 years, so at any one time most people are not exposed to college. It’s when parents are paying $40k a year they pay attention. In Los Angeles, the parents of Jewish students are finally awaking to the BDS anti-semitism that has taken root at UCLA (5th largest Jewish city in the world), and even with their outrage it’s tough to overturn the ingrained decades long groupthink.
Unless we use multiple forums like this as our mountaintops to scream from, no one will notice, and even then many won’t care because they don’t have kids in school.