ND Offers White Privilege Course

[phgreek]

"Along with the training seminar, students will be required to attend the White Privilege Conference after the training class from March 8-14. The course description claims the main objective for each student is “personal transformation: to leave the class and conference more aware of injustices and better equipped with tools to disrupt personal, institutional, and worldwide systems of oppression.”"

Disrupt...such a clever word choice in the face of so many appropriate, non combative substitutes like "address", "deal with", "help identify and educate those engaged in"...Can't help but walk away thinking this is less about fostering change in a constructive fashion where it is needed, and more about an angry, identity-based political agenda...but I'll withhold final judgment until I hear from some of you young folks who choose to attend.

 

[GoldenDome]

Will they be showing the movie White man can't jump in this course?

 

[magogian]

Good grief. This victim-mongering drivel has spread to ND.

 

[IrishLax]

It's actually getting some semi-national coverage on a couple media outlets... for all the wrong reasons. The comments on the Fox News article are cringe worthy.

At ND, some people are taking umbrage to the fact that the person leading this class is the same person who has tried to censor opinions she doesn't agree with on campus and was also part of the "firing Ty was RACIST" crowd back in the day that was absurdly ignorant.

 

[Black Irish]

I thought it was a course that taught how to acquire some of that sweet White Privilege I keep hearing about.

 

[magogian]

I thought it was a course that taught how to acquire some of that sweet White Privilege I keep hearing about.

Sorry, you can't acquire it unless you had white parents adopt you. At least, that's what I'm told.

 

[magogian]

At ND, some people are taking umbrage to the fact that the person leading this class is the same person who has tried to censor opinions she doesn't agree with on campus and was also part of the "firing Ty was RACIST" crowd back in the day that was absurdly ignorant.

Aren't those essentially prerequisites to teach such a course?

 

[IrishInFl]

It's actually getting some semi-national coverage on a couple media outlets... for all the wrong reasons. The comments on the Fox News article are cringe worthy.

At ND, some people are taking umbrage to the fact that the person leading this class is the same person who has tried to censor opinions she doesn't agree with on campus and was also part of the "firing Ty was RACIST" crowd back in the day that was absurdly ignorant.

Anita Sarkesian is the instructor then I presume.

 

[mtnd15]

There is a massive concern on campus to appear "diverse enough" to prospective students. This seems like another outgrowth of that concern to me. Same group of people hyping the course. All I know is that I will not be taking this course.

 

[NCDomer]

I thought this was a pre-req to attend ND. Why would ND have a course for what their students have enjoyed their entire lives?

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

They're crazy there is no such thing as white privilege! Also racism is over and no one is suffering except for white men who are called racist.

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

Why aren't they running a course on Benghazi? Benghazi. Benghazi.

 

[kmoose]

If it helps people more critically examine their own beliefs and/or preconceptions, then is it really a bad thing?

 

[Bluto]

If it helps people more critically examine their own beliefs and/or preconceptions, then is it really a bad thing?

Call me crazy but I thought that's what higher education is all about.

 

[GoldenDome]

The irony is the Catholic Church teaching about disrupting oppression.

 

[GoldenDomer]

Yuck

 

[ickythump1225]

That's just sad. Call me crazy but if I'm going to spend exorbitant amounts of money to send my child to ND I want them to learn about real things and actual academic courses. Not the delusional ramblings of some left wing race baiter.

 

[kmoose]

That's just sad. Call me crazy but if I'm going to spend exorbitant amounts of money to send my child to ND I want them to learn about real things and actual academic courses. Not the delusional ramblings of some left wing race baiter.

It's not a required course, is it?

 

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

You're going to be in for a rough time if you expect to send your kids to college and not have their status quo and their beliefs challenged. Maybe you should just send your kids to Liberty or BYU if you don't want your kids to be aware of the plight of others. The Catholic Church and social justice go together. Go to a protestant sect if you don't want your kids to care about others.

 

[ResLife Hero]

Considering the founder of Liberation Theology is a professor at ND, I don't get why a class that wants to give students the "tools to disrupt personal, institutional, and worldwide systems of oppression" is all that surprising.

 

[kmoose]

Maybe you should just send your kids to Liberty or BYU if you don't want your kids to be aware of the plight of others.

To be fair, I think most Mormons are well aware of the plight of others, considering how many of them (the Mormons, not "others") do missions in very poor areas of not just the US, but the world.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

They're crazy there is no such thing as white privilege! Also racism is over and no one is suffering except for white men who are called racist.

You live in a delusional world. Median household income in the US has decreased 8% since 2008, and that my friend applies to all races.

 

[Irishnuke]

They're crazy there is no such thing as white privilege! Also racism is over and no one is suffering except for white men who are called racist.

I wonder if they'll also have a " blame white people for all of my problems" course as well. I guess they don't really need to as it is already taught at home.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

You're going to be in for a rough time if you expect to send your kids to college and not have their status quo and their beliefs challenged. Maybe you should just send your kids to Liberty or BYU if you don't want your kids to be aware of the plight of others. The Catholic Church and social justice go together. Go to a protestant sect if you don't want your kids to care about others.

That's all warm and fuzzy. Christians everywhere teach caring for the poor and giving to the needy. If you disagree with someone about the root causes of poverty and/ or the solutions, that does not equal hate or not caring. It's a philosophical difference.

No one preaches more hate and racism on this board, still, than you.

 

[NCND]

They're crazy there is no such thing as white privilege! Also racism is over and no one is suffering except for white men who are called racist.

Racism is over? HA.

 

[Cackalacky]

Considering the founder of Liberation Theology is a professor at ND, I don't get why a class that wants to give students the "tools to disrupt personal, institutional, and worldwide systems of oppression" is all that surprising.

Right? Disrupting oppression is a good thing.

 

[GoldenDomer]

You're going to be in for a rough time if you expect to send your kids to college and not have their status quo and their beliefs challenged. Maybe you should just send your kids to Liberty or BYU if you don't want your kids to be aware of the plight of others. The Catholic Church and social justice go together. Go to a protestant sect if you don't want your kids to care about others.

Wow. So as a Catholic, am I guilty?

 

[GoldenDomer]

You're going to be in for a rough time if you expect to send your kids to college and not have their status quo and their beliefs challenged. Maybe you should just send your kids to Liberty or BYU if you don't want your kids to be aware of the plight of others. The Catholic Church and social justice go together. Go to a protestant sect if you don't want your kids to care about others.

Also how do you root for for a school that embraces the teachings of such a hateful institution.

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Wow. So as a Catholic, am I guilty?

Depends. If you're a middle or upper class white individual with a "D" behind your name, you're a noble person fighting for the "oppressed" and the "poor."

If you're a middle or upper class white individual with an "R" behind your name, you are greedy and don't care about the poor.

That's the narrative.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

To be fair, I think most Mormons are well aware of the plight of others, considering how many of them (the Mormons, not "others") do missions in very poor areas of not just the US, but the world.

This isn't the thread to discuss it in great detail, so all I will say is:

-IMO: Mormons don't give two craps about the plight of others
-IMO: All those missions serve a purpose that isn't as warm and fuzzy as they appear