Law School Wouldn’t Let Her Son Opt Out Of Class That Promotes Anti-White Racism. Now She’s Suing

[Fox by the Sea]

woke culture is divisive cancer
this is the crap that woke activists disguised as education creates:

Vanderbilt University
More than 800 Vanderbilt students were asked on a class assignment if the U.S. Constitution was "designed to perpetuate white supremacy." The "correct" answer to the question was “true. ”The course, entitled “US Elections,” discussed "the presidential and congressional elections, the recruitment of candidates, nomination processes, financing campaigns, media coverage, polling, predictive models, and implications of results."

Tulane University
Tulane University in New Orleans is offering course in spring 2021, entitled "Feminism after Trumplandia," will look at President Donald Trump's actions while in office, including the “defunding of Planned Parenthood," the “Muslim ban," “assault on pro-choice legislation," rescinding “protections for transgender students," and Trump's "history of sexual assault” as “unprecedented dystopia for women."

University of Pittsburg
The University of Pittsburgh released materials for its first-year, mandatory anti-black racism course. The inaugural semester of “Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance” was required for all freshmen, who were automatically enrolled in the course. The first week of the course introduced students to “critical theories on race and anti-blackness in everyday life.” Multiple weeks of the course discuss Black Lives Matter and its influence as a “contemporary black liberation” movement.

CUNY Brooklyn College
A Brooklyn College professor threatened to remove any student from “Fundamental Concepts in LGBTQ Studies” if he or she misgenders another individual; after Campus Reform contacted the university for comment, the professor was instructed to remove the threat. “My name is B. Call me B,” wrote the professor in the course’s syllabus. “I am nonbinary, transfeminine...I adhere to a strict policy of respect for the gender, sexual, and racial identities of my students. Intentional misgendering, as with any attempt to slur another student’s personal integrity on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion, will result in immediate dismissal from class for that session. Continued abuses will result in disciplinary action with the appropriate administrators. ”The syllabus listed several LGBTQ-related reading assignments, including “Is the Rectum a Grave?" and “How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay.”​

 

[mkess101]

I haven't seen the slides so I can't comment directly on them.

Instead I'm going to repeat something that I've read but haven't decided on. Some people argue that preference is normal, that it is normal to prefer one's own race over others. But that preference doesn't become a problem until it becomes institutionalized and/or codified in some way. To illustrate, it's okay for the bank manager to prefer people who look like him but that's not an issue until the bank manager starts using his preferences to alter how the bank treats customers. Under that model, racism isn't really "racism" unless it comes with institutional power - such as the power to grant loans and extend credit.

Now, that aligns with the historical issues in this country where the problem wasn't so much that whites and blacks didn't get along, it was that the law codified different treatment. The Irish and the Italians were certainly discriminated against but the institutions didn't target them to the same extent and so there wasn't as much institutionalized racism against those groups.

Where I find this argument interesting is that it underscores a possible real shift in institutional power structures in this country. If white people genuinely believe that they are experiencing racism similar to that experienced by black people. And if they really feel powerless to stop it. Then it suggests that institutional power is shifting to one where white Americans are as vulnerable to institutional abuse as anyone else. As crazy as it seems, that would actually be a move towards equality. When everyone feels equally vulnerable then they all have motivation to fix the system.

I don't know where I stand on that but it's something that I think about.

Yep, I've seen similar things. The problem with it again imo, is that it ONLY addresses one aspect of racism. If the ONLY type of racism that existed was institutional racism this way of thinking would hold more water. The problem to me is, we are putting lipstick on a pig a bit when we believe racism stops at "Preferring people who look like us". Yes, on the institutional side with your bank manager analogy that's where it stops. But the reality is that when those seeds are planted that highlight differences, it doesn't actually stop at that. When black people were being lynched in the south, it wasn't merely due to white people "preferring people who look like them". They grew that into hatred of people who didn't. And those kernels of hate grew into believing those who didn't weren't just different, but were inferior and subhuman.

From an institutional standpoint, white people who think they're experiencing racism on par with what black people do are delusional imo. Is the power shifting? Sure, absolutely. But despite my many disagreements with the "woke" movement (and there are MANY), it's just utterly ridiculous for white people to believe at this point that they are as powerless or vulnerable as black people from an institutional standpoint. That may well change going forward, but as of now that's just silly whining generally speaking. Seeking out victimhood status with little grounds to do so.

But racism on a more personal level matters too. Because while institutional power certainly matters a ton, so do the views we form in our own heads and how they affect our choices. When we tell everyone "It's okay to prefer your own race" we're setting the table for hate. It's a short leap from that to "They don't matter, protect your own", etc. Institutional power may skew one way or another, but we all have the power to affect other individual's lives in this society. Call it whatever you want, the "Racism butterfly effect" maybe I'd refer to it as. If my "preference" of my own race leads me to make personal choices to treat them better than other races (ie, hold the door open only for white people, only smile at white people, etc) that snowballs. Let's say other white people do the same. We're then giving minorities legit justification in support of them not liking white people. Why smile at white people if they don't smile back? And it snowballs. Now maybe another white guy always is treated poorly by the Indian or black or asian people he interacts with because they've been treated poorly by whites. It grows, and now the fringe think that crimes against other races don't really count because hatred has grown inside them. That's the extreme of course.

If it is actually true that we are "hardwired" to prefer our own race, that's not a discussion to dodge either. Not what I'm saying. It's recognizing it and taking steps to overcome our hardwiring that are needed. Not "Well, it's okay as long as we can get to a point where institutionally we're on equal ground. We'll all hate each other, but we'll all be equally scared." No, that's not a world I want my kid living inheriting. Instead, addressing it and having people self reflect enough to see their own blind spots should be the goal. True color blindness might be a fairy tale, but the strive toward it shouldn't be imo. Maybe I'm old school, but it feels to me like Dr King's "I have a dream" speech is getting brushed aside now as unrealistic feel good tripe. And I don't like it.

 

[Le Mercenaire]

woke culture is divisive cancer
this is the crap that woke activists disguised as education creates:

Vanderbilt University
More than 800 Vanderbilt students were asked on a class assignment if the U.S. Constitution was "designed to perpetuate white supremacy." The "correct" answer to the question was “true. ”The course, entitled “US Elections,” discussed "the presidential and congressional elections, the recruitment of candidates, nomination processes, financing campaigns, media coverage, polling, predictive models, and implications of results."

Tulane University
Tulane University in New Orleans is offering course in spring 2021, entitled "Feminism after Trumplandia," will look at President Donald Trump's actions while in office, including the “defunding of Planned Parenthood," the “Muslim ban," “assault on pro-choice legislation," rescinding “protections for transgender students," and Trump's "history of sexual assault” as “unprecedented dystopia for women."

University of Pittsburg
The University of Pittsburgh released materials for its first-year, mandatory anti-black racism course. The inaugural semester of “Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance” was required for all freshmen, who were automatically enrolled in the course. The first week of the course introduced students to “critical theories on race and anti-blackness in everyday life.” Multiple weeks of the course discuss Black Lives Matter and its influence as a “contemporary black liberation” movement.

CUNY Brooklyn College
A Brooklyn College professor threatened to remove any student from “Fundamental Concepts in LGBTQ Studies” if he or she misgenders another individual; after Campus Reform contacted the university for comment, the professor was instructed to remove the threat. “My name is B. Call me B,” wrote the professor in the course’s syllabus. “I am nonbinary, transfeminine...I adhere to a strict policy of respect for the gender, sexual, and racial identities of my students. Intentional misgendering, as with any attempt to slur another student’s personal integrity on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion, will result in immediate dismissal from class for that session. Continued abuses will result in disciplinary action with the appropriate administrators. ”The syllabus listed several LGBTQ-related reading assignments, including “Is the Rectum a Grave?" and “How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay.”​

All this shit is a way to create affirmative action jobs. Most of them will be held by fat black broads with less than stellar academics.

 

[BIKES!]

But despite my many disagreements with the "woke" movement (and there are MANY), it's just utterly ridiculous for white people to believe at this point that they are as powerless or vulnerable as black people from an institutional standpoint.

Yes if you are comparing current whites to blacks in the 60s and maybe through 70s and perhaps 80s. If you are talking present day it’s a different story.

The intent today is not equity and fairness it’s payback. Physical lynching of whites hasn’t necessarily happened yet but check out Yahoo today with another race baiting op Ed. Every day race baiting garbage pieces.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/keyon-harrold-son-assaulted-falsely-accused-theft-172435056.html
Same with MSN and same with the other channels.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...from-police-department/ar-BB1cilYI?li=BBnb7Kz
24/7 demonization and payback. Tie that in with the demoralization and birth of the woke white self hating left we may just see the past repeat itself with more gusto.

The left has made everything about race, highlighting differences and failing to embrace we are all human. Many could argue race relations are worse today than the past 4 or even 5 decades. Thank you Democrat Reich for your propaganda.

 

[mkess101]

Yes if you are comparing current whites to blacks in the 60s and maybe through 70s and perhaps 80s. If you are talking present day it’s a different story.

The intent today is not equity and fairness it’s payback. Physical lynching of whites hasn’t necessarily happened yet but check out Yahoo today with another race baiting op Ed. Every day race baiting garbage pieces.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/keyon-harrold-son-assaulted-falsely-accused-theft-172435056.html
Same with MSN and same with the other channels.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...from-police-department/ar-BB1cilYI?li=BBnb7Kz
24/7 demonization and payback. Tie that in with the demoralization and birth of the woke white self hating left we may just see the past repeat itself with more gusto.

The left has made everything about race, highlighting differences and failing to embrace we are all human. Many could argue race relations are worse today than the past 4 or even 5 decades. Thank you Democrat Reich for your propaganda.

I'm not arguing that I think the intense focus on racial differences is a good thing overall at all (as you can see by the rest of my post that you quoted). The intent today is murky because it's a myriad of different voices. Absolutely it's payback with some, others I do think are working in good faith toward equity. Everything isn't always cut and dried.

It sounds simplistic and it's far easier said than done, but recognizing differences without attaching negativity to them while (as you said) embracing the fact that we're all human should be the goal. I think that's being undermined by a lot of different angles, not only the left. There's blame to go around.

 

[panamaican]

Yep, I've seen similar things. The problem with it again imo, is that it ONLY addresses one aspect of racism. If the ONLY type of racism that existed was institutional racism this way of thinking would hold more water. The problem to me is, we are putting lipstick on a pig a bit when we believe racism stops at "Preferring people who look like us". Yes, on the institutional side with your bank manager analogy that's where it stops. But the reality is that when those seeds are planted that highlight differences, it doesn't actually stop at that. When black people were being lynched in the south, it wasn't merely due to white people "preferring people who look like them". They grew that into hatred of people who didn't. And those kernels of hate grew into believing those who didn't weren't just different, but were inferior and subhuman.

From an institutional standpoint, white people who think they're experiencing racism on par with what black people do are delusional imo. Is the power shifting? Sure, absolutely. But despite my many disagreements with the "woke" movement (and there are MANY), it's just utterly ridiculous for white people to believe at this point that they are as powerless or vulnerable as black people from an institutional standpoint. That may well change going forward, but as of now that's just silly whining generally speaking. Seeking out victimhood status with little grounds to do so.

But racism on a more personal level matters too. Because while institutional power certainly matters a ton, so do the views we form in our own heads and how they affect our choices. When we tell everyone "It's okay to prefer your own race" we're setting the table for hate. It's a short leap from that to "They don't matter, protect your own", etc. Institutional power may skew one way or another, but we all have the power to affect other individual's lives in this society. Call it whatever you want, the "Racism butterfly effect" maybe I'd refer to it as. If my "preference" of my own race leads me to make personal choices to treat them better than other races (ie, hold the door open only for white people, only smile at white people, etc) that snowballs. Let's say other white people do the same. We're then giving minorities legit justification in support of them not liking white people. Why smile at white people if they don't smile back? And it snowballs. Now maybe another white guy always is treated poorly by the Indian or black or asian people he interacts with because they've been treated poorly by whites. It grows, and now the fringe think that crimes against other races don't really count because hatred has grown inside them. That's the extreme of course.

If it is actually true that we are "hardwired" to prefer our own race, that's not a discussion to dodge either. Not what I'm saying. It's recognizing it and taking steps to overcome our hardwiring that are needed. Not "Well, it's okay as long as we can get to a point where institutionally we're on equal ground. We'll all hate each other, but we'll all be equally scared." No, that's not a world I want my kid living inheriting. Instead, addressing it and having people self reflect enough to see their own blind spots should be the goal. True color blindness might be a fairy tale, but the strive toward it shouldn't be imo. Maybe I'm old school, but it feels to me like Dr King's "I have a dream" speech is getting brushed aside now as unrealistic feel good tripe. And I don't like it.

The lynching thing was institutional. LYnching was able to happen because the government wouldn't prosecute the white people who engaged in those behaviors. That created an environment where the criminals could act with impunity. The difference in treatment was at the police level and how crimes were investigated and who was punished. If lynchings had been aggressively policed and the culprits punished by juries, we wouldn't have had as many.

I do agree with you that those white who think their experiences of racism are at the same level of black people are delusional. But, as more black people start entering positions of influence, they are also starting to open doors for other black people. It's not codified but if a white person lost a job opportunity because the hiring manager was black and preferred black employees then I can understand why that white person might think something racist has occurred. I would think that person is wrong (the same way I would think a black person is wrong). It might be discrimination but I wouldn't automatically label it as "racist". To rise to the level of racist, would require delving into the "why", the beliefs that the hiring manager has about black employees and white ones.

I agree with you that it's not normal to prefer one's own race (it wasn't my position that it's true, I was just repeating something that I'd read). People have taken something and extended it out. The research, as I understand it, is that babies prefer people who look like them. But it's not really about race, it's about being dependent on their parents for care. The more you look like their parents, the easier it is to trust them. However, those same studies also demonstrate that the preference mitigates just by being exposed to other people. The more people you encounter, the less that original preference matters.

I also agree that individual, non-institutionalized, racism matters. And in some ways, it matters more. It's the individual acts that we're most likely to encounter, your butterfly effect. Any way, I gotta bow out for a while. Lot to get done before the end of the calendar year.

 

[Confucamus]

woke culture is divisive cancer
this is the crap that woke activists disguised as education creates:

Vanderbilt University
More than 800 Vanderbilt students were asked on a class assignment if the U.S. Constitution was "designed to perpetuate white supremacy." The "correct" answer to the question was “true. ”The course, entitled “US Elections,” discussed "the presidential and congressional elections, the recruitment of candidates, nomination processes, financing campaigns, media coverage, polling, predictive models, and implications of results."

Tulane University
Tulane University in New Orleans is offering course in spring 2021, entitled "Feminism after Trumplandia," will look at President Donald Trump's actions while in office, including the “defunding of Planned Parenthood," the “Muslim ban," “assault on pro-choice legislation," rescinding “protections for transgender students," and Trump's "history of sexual assault” as “unprecedented dystopia for women."

University of Pittsburg
The University of Pittsburgh released materials for its first-year, mandatory anti-black racism course. The inaugural semester of “Anti-Black Racism: History, Ideology, and Resistance” was required for all freshmen, who were automatically enrolled in the course. The first week of the course introduced students to “critical theories on race and anti-blackness in everyday life.” Multiple weeks of the course discuss Black Lives Matter and its influence as a “contemporary black liberation” movement.

CUNY Brooklyn College
A Brooklyn College professor threatened to remove any student from “Fundamental Concepts in LGBTQ Studies” if he or she misgenders another individual; after Campus Reform contacted the university for comment, the professor was instructed to remove the threat. “My name is B. Call me B,” wrote the professor in the course’s syllabus. “I am nonbinary, transfeminine...I adhere to a strict policy of respect for the gender, sexual, and racial identities of my students. Intentional misgendering, as with any attempt to slur another student’s personal integrity on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion, will result in immediate dismissal from class for that session. Continued abuses will result in disciplinary action with the appropriate administrators. ”The syllabus listed several LGBTQ-related reading assignments, including “Is the Rectum a Grave?" and “How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay.”​

Those are all real? Because that is super depressing.

 

[erhnamdjinn]

Sheesh the only thing we should be teaching is morality, just try to respect one another for what we are.

 

[White Whale]

Yes if you are comparing current whites to blacks in the 60s and maybe through 70s and perhaps 80s. If you are talking present day it’s a different story.

The intent today is not equity and fairness it’s payback. Physical lynching of whites hasn’t necessarily happened yet but check out Yahoo today with another race baiting op Ed. Every day race baiting garbage pieces.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/keyon-harrold-son-assaulted-falsely-accused-theft-172435056.html
Same with MSN and same with the other channels.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...from-police-department/ar-BB1cilYI?li=BBnb7Kz
24/7 demonization and payback. Tie that in with the demoralization and birth of the woke white self hating left we may just see the past repeat itself with more gusto.

The left has made everything about race, highlighting differences and failing to embrace we are all human. Many could argue race relations are worse today than the past 4 or even 5 decades. Thank you Democrat Reich for your propaganda.

Communism is the reason the left focuses so much on race. They viewed racial relations to be America’s biggest weakness.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Those are all real? Because that is super depressing.

yup.

 

[ElijahWood]

The problem comes when you get disciplined or marked down for disagreeing. I experienced that in college. I took a course where the prof was a raving feminist and one of the papers' topic was 'explain how Sparta was or wasn't a proto-feminist state.'

I argued that it wasn't and got a C. The only C of my college career. It was a properly sourced paper formatted correctly and citing arguments from prominent scholars on the topic (rewriting Greek history as feminist was a big thing in the 70s, so there was a ton of material arguing against it from the 80s and 90s).

The girl I was dating at the time didn't even source her paper properly and got an A just because she agreed with the prof. She literally used children's books from the public library as sources.

I have no problem with a class about this type of stuff so long as the the teacher isn't so invested in it that she grades your work based on how closely you agree with her personal views and not on the quality of the work you do.

 

[ElijahWood]

In Nevada, Gabrielle Clark didn’t want her son, William, to attend a mandatory class at his charter school that promoted “hostility toward whites as a race,” The College Fix’s Greg Piper reported. Gabrielle previously threatened to file a lawsuit against the school for forcing him to take the class, and this week she made good on that threat.

The school forced her son to “make professions about his racial, sexual, gender and religious identities in verbal class exercises and in graded, written homework assignments,” Gabrielle asserted in her federal lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday.

William, who is a senior at Democracy Prep and biracial, had his statements “subject to the scrutiny, interrogation and derogatory labeling of students, teachers and school administrators,” the lawsuit states. William is still being coerced to “accept and affirm politicized and discriminatory principles and statements that he cannot in conscience affirm.”

Gabrielle’s lawsuit states that William was “repeatedly threatened… with material harm including a failing grade and non-graduation if he failed to comply with their requirements. Gabrielle is black and William’s only living guardian. His white father passed away. Gabrielle included a screenshot of a meme that was included in the mandatory class, which claimed “reverse racism doesn’t exist.”

Full article below
https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-wouldnt-let-her-son-opt-out-of-class-that-promotes-anti-white-


I think this law suit has some legs. Suing for damages for severe mental and emotional distress, as well as allegedly "permanent" damages to his academic career seemed to be a little much on paper, but making this class mandatory for graduation is bullshit, and I hope this lawsuit can set a precedent as these sort of ideas are both divisive and toxic.

Seeing that the curriculum literally includes sponge bob memes should tell everyone everything they need to know about this, but I see the usual suspect defending it out of their own self interest.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

The problem comes when you get disciplined or marked down for disagreeing. I experienced that in college. I took a course where the prof was a raving feminist and one of the papers' topic was 'explain how Sparta was or wasn't a proto-feminist state.'

I argued that it wasn't and got a C. The only C of my college career. It was a properly sourced paper formatted correctly and citing arguments from prominent scholars on the topic (rewriting Greek history as feminist was a big thing in the 70s, so there was a ton of material arguing against it from the 80s and 90s).

The girl I was dating at the time didn't even source her paper properly and got an A just because she agreed with the prof. She literally used children's books from the public library as sources.

I have no problem with a class about this type of stuff so long as the the teacher isn't so invested in it that she grades your work based on how closely you agree with her personal views and not on the quality of the work you do.

rewards for lowest level type of conformity is how this cancer spreads.
all it asks for you is to publicly agree with it.

 

[The_Renaissance]

rewards for lowest level type of conformity is how this cancer spreads.
all it asks for you is to publicly agree with it.

Bingo. It's a religious cult, that's so obvious to anyone who's looking with honest eyes.

It's a religious cult that demands you agree publicly and fully with its fixed dogma and ideologies - if you do, you're on the path to righteousness to becoming a good, pure human being. A working cog in society. You must read and obsess over the dogma on a daily basis and do your utmost to convert anyone you meet to 'the cause'.

It's a fucking religious cult and it attracts the same type of people who are attracted to mainstream religion and/or the idea of joining a cult - young, impressionable, mentally unstable / upset / angry / disenfranchised / marginalised minority groups who don't feel like society gives them the home they deserve.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Bingo. It's a religious cult, that's so obvious to anyone who's looking with honest eyes.

It's a religious cult that demands you agree publicly and fully with its fixed dogma and ideologies - if you do, you're on the path to righteousness to becoming a good, pure human being. A working cog in society. You must read and obsess over the dogma on a daily basis and do your utmost to convert anyone you meet to 'the cause'.

It's a fucking religious cult and it attracts the same type of people who are attracted to mainstream religion and/or the idea of joining a cult - young, impressionable, mentally unstable / upset / angry / disenfranchised / marginalised minority groups who don't feel like society gives them the home they deserve.

woke culture is a suicide cult.

 

[whaleshark]

I can’t wait for the day “white folks” become a “visible minority”, start using the term POW (person of white), and start protesting black on white murders.

I’ll probably be dead before then, some days I’m almost happy to have terminal cancer when I see so much stupid shit going on in the world.

 

[BForrester]

Find a new school, I guess.

 

[Grunt0331**]

I can’t wait for the day “white folks” become a “visible minority”, start using the term POW (person of white), and start protesting black on white murders.

I’ll probably be dead before then, some days I’m almost happy to have terminal cancer when I see so much stupid shit going on in the world.

Given the violent crime rates and complete lack of reality in the BLM absurdity...

 

[Steve-French]

The mother's complaint is stupid. Her son isn't being forced to make professions about himself. He's required to speak on the subject of the classroom and some of that subject matter overlaps with his personal identity. It's simplistic and stupid for her or him to personalize the material as being about them individually.

Pretty much every critical thinking class asks you to present positions that reflect some personal elements in your answer. And every such class requires the teacher to poke and prod at those positions to help the student look deeper into why they hold the positions they hold. It's how the student is expected to grow. Sometimes the teacher reinforces a position, sometimes the teacher attacks the position. But the point is to make the student think about it.

I see parents like this in my son's kindergarten and 1st grade class. Parents who want to re-write the curriculum to meet thier personal perspective without understanding that the classroom is for the education of everyone, not just their kid. And that means that not everyone's comments, perspectives, positions, etc. will get equal treatment. I've had black parents complain about the content surrounding slavery and Jim Crow and while I understand their perspective, their little black kids aren't the only kids in the classroom. There are white kids, Asian kids, Hispanic kids and sometimes these things can't be taught in a way that makes everyone emotionally comfortable.

People have to accept that their kids will encounter some level of discomfort along the road to growing up. Better it be in the classroom than somewhere more consequential.

Would you feel this same way if a teacher at a publicly funded charter school was teaching Christianity and posting Memes saying that they will go to hell if they don't believe in Jesus?

 

[BForrester]

Would you feel this same way if a teacher at a publicly funded charter school was teaching Christianity and posting Memes saying that they will go to hell if they don't believe in Jesus?

False analogy.