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Amusingly opposite of how it is used here.Chait kindof outlines the difference between a "liberal" and a "leftist" regarding social justice and whatnot. Thought you might enjoy.
Amusingly opposite of how it is used here.Chait kindof outlines the difference between a "liberal" and a "leftist" regarding social justice and whatnot. Thought you might enjoy.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/08/bernie-sanders-blacklivesmatter-free-speech.html
Chait kindof outlines the difference between a "liberal" and a "leftist" regarding social justice and whatnot. Thought you might enjoy.
Nonetheless, I never hear about any of this "SJW" crap except from outraged paleoconservatives who feel their societal position is threatened.
Quoting words I never thought I'd see, part XIV.On point as usual IDL.
Perhaps, I think it more comes from violent opposition toward introspection. What's particular interesting is the unwillingness to accept that extrinsic factors might aid success. Does doing so somehow tarnish one's accomplishments?Sometimes I wonder if it's actually fear of retribution. Like this deep subconscious terror that all white men will have to pay for everything we did to everyone else over the centuries someday.
I am proud of things I have accomplished. I am proud of my longstanding relationship with my wife. I am proud of my peofessional and academic success. I am, to some extent, proud of the accomplishments pf the German political system (and I contribute to its continued existence by taking part in the political process). I am neither proud nor ashamed to be German pr White. I am indifferent of this.
Sometimes I wonder if it's actually fear of retribution. Like this deep subconscious terror that all white men will have to pay for everything we did to everyone else over the centuries someday.
EDIT: Also I'm not sure I'm comfortable with Hispanics having this slight advantage over the glorious white race.
I think this is backwards. You should be able to be proud of your heritage, which often includes the colour of your skin. This should be acceptable for white people as it is for other races, it's just that people are so scared of being labelled a racist that they don't declare it.
Whites get zero flack for showing pride in their Italian/German/English/Irish/German heritage and background.
Pride in white race will get you in trouble, though. That's what colonizing the world and imposing white supremacy on those you conquered get ya.
Though, in my opinion, it's a pretty small price to pay. If someone in 1492 told me: You have two options, A) Colonize the entire planet and rule over everyone, but in about 500 years it'll become a bit taboo to publicly proclaim racial pride. Cultural pride is still cool, though
or B) You can be colonized and dominated and be at the bottom of the social ladder... BUT you'll be able to scream about racial pride all you want.
I'd choose A in an absolute split second.
Whites get zero flack for showing pride in their Italian/German/English/Irish/German heritage and background.
Pride in white race will get you in trouble, though. That's what colonizing the world and imposing white supremacy on those you conquered get ya.
Though, in my opinion, it's a pretty small price to pay. If someone in 1492 told me: You have two options, A) Colonize the entire planet and rule over everyone, but in about 500 years it'll become a bit taboo to publicly proclaim racial pride. Cultural pride is still cool, though
or B) You can be colonized and dominated and be at the bottom of the social ladder... BUT you'll be able to scream about racial pride all you want.
I'd choose A in an absolute split second.
It's my primary fear. Let's just hope that our slaves never escape.
WTF is wrong with these people? I'm starting to think guys like these are really racist pieces of shit in disguise and are pushing people in the opposite direction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-benn/towards-a-concept-of-whit_b_7985986.html#show-last-Point
This. Obsessive focus on collective pride/guilt is generally a sign of retardation.
White males are not being discriminated all the time within universities. There are occasionally things like the one professor you linked to but that's not representative. There's not a "growing trend" with any substance like you mentioned in another part of your post. The degree to which feminism has "taken over" universities extends to pushes toward getting paid parental leave for male and female faculty. The degree to which some sort of emphasis on ethnic diversity has taken over is to maybe take that into account when looking at your top five candidates for a faculty spot (out of over a hundred). You certainly can point to a few egregious examples of how Title IX has been applied (a scary one was recently reported on in Chron. Higher Ed) but those too are rare.
This whole thread reminds me of how Atheist's entire perspective of liberalism and feminism was based on his experiences within a native studies department. You fuckers don't know what you're talking about and base your rage on random shit from twitter. There are over two thousand 4 year universities in the US.
Why would I be proud of something that's entirely due to chance?
I've been at more than one university. Admittedly that's also anecdotal but this really is just the typical hysteria we see on these sorts of issues, hysteria that's been ongoing for decades.
Oh no, a somewhat crass female african-american professor said something on twitter! Is that really demonstrative of a trend? No, absolutely not.
I think this is backwards. You should be able to be proud of your heritage, which often includes the colour of your skin. This should be acceptable for white people as it is for other races, it's just that people are so scared of being labelled a racist that they don't declare it.
Being ashamed of who you are because of what your ancestors did is stupid, just as it's stupid to express sympathy at someone for what their ancestors went through.
Whites get zero flack for showing pride in their Italian/German/English/Irish/German heritage and background.
Pride in white race will get you in trouble, though. That's what colonizing the world and imposing white supremacy on those you conquered get ya.
Though, in my opinion, it's a pretty small price to pay. If someone in 1492 told me: You have two options, A) Colonize the entire planet and rule over everyone, but in about 500 years it'll become a bit taboo to publicly proclaim racial pride. Cultural pride is still cool, though
or B) You can be colonized and dominated and be at the bottom of the social ladder... BUT you'll be able to scream about racial pride all you want.
I'd choose A in an absolute split second.
No you evil racist shitlord. I think a few semesters in a California University would do you some good.