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A health sciences program offered at Ohio State University requires those who sign up for the course to take part in an array of discussions and assignments about gender and race, including one that asks students to address their privileges if they are White, heterosexual or able-bodied.
One such required class assignment, which was outlined in the FOIA-obtained documents related to the course, is titled "Unpack the Invisible Knapsack" and asks students to complete a series of "activities" about their "privilege."
The assignment stems from a 1989 essay titled "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” which was written by feminist scholar and anti-racist activist Peggy McIntosh. Included in this knapsack -- "Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence, which I was being subtly trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color."
How much did they pay for this abuse?
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To correct the record, Peggy McIntosh is, in fact, a RACIST activist.
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For an anti-racist she sounds pretty racist to me, but what do I know.
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Nothing. They borrowed the money, and the debt will be written off.
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With all this privilege I have being white, male, and able-bodied, how did I end up where I am? You would think winning life's lottery would come with a huge payoff . . .
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As bad as that cr*p is this woke stuff has made its way into our medical school. UCLA Medical School is just one of many which requires a semester long indoctrination course which they call "Structural Racism and Health Equity".
I shudder to think how bad our health care system might become in the very near future if there's not a major reversal of our ongoing cultural decline soon.
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