So I recently graduated from UMKC's real estate program, which meant I was receiving emails from UMKC on the regular. And most weren't from the real estate department. Most were infused with the type of drivel one would come to expect. For example, this article I saw a while back from a professor of some sort of grievance studies program, I recently helped facilitate a training on white fragility. We asked white folks to share a story of a time when they were fragile in discussions of race, racism, or whiteness. We struggled to share examples. It’s not that we aren’t fragile, but rather, our reluctance to share is an example of our fragility. I shared a story of a time when I didn’t intervene when a colleague said something racially problematic. It was an easy story to tell. It was someone else’s racism and my reluctance to challenge white solidarity was peripheral... "Problematic," "fragility," "whiteness".... that's a lot of buzzwords. But of course, it get worse,
Whitesplain (noun): The act of a white person disagreeing with someone who isn't white or more likely, with a white hipster liberal who loves getting offended on other people's behalf.
And by the way, if someone is "divorcing you" because you won't "deconstruct your whiteness" or some other intellectual-sounding gobbledegook which effectively means nothing, thank God such a nutcase is no longer part of your life. This kind of thing really makes me wonder if those hoax papers were even necessary to prove the insanity of the grievance studies' departments. Oh how the Humanities have fallen. Now they mostly just leach of the reputation of other departments.
Comments
|
Andrew Syrios"Every day is a new life to the wise man." Archives
August 2018
Blog Roll
Bigger Pockets REI Club Tim Ferris Joe Rogan Adam Carolla MAREI Worcester Investments Entrepreneur The Righteous Mind Star Slate Codex Mises Institute Tom Woods Consulting by RPM Swift Economics Categories |