Saturday, June 10, 2017

At Academic Conference, Diversity of Thought Is Dismissed as “White Supremacist Bullsh**”

Until such time as the regular people who make up America’s core population can be totally marginalized if not eliminated altogether, diversity of race, origin, and sexual proclivities is sacrosanct. In contrast, diversity of thought, in the words of a learned professor, is “white supremacist bullsh**” — as educators were informed at a recent Critical Race Studies in Education Association conference: 

Whiteness has already been constructed against blackness. There is no virtue in whiteness, it is inherently violent,” one conference-goer tweeted, referencing a quote from Michael Dumas, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who spoke at the event. 

Whiteness and the United States knows [sic] itself through the violence and death of the subordinated,” another attendee quoted Dumas as saying, with one academic at the conference noting Dumas claimed that there “is no position of whiteness that isn’t already violent.”   More.....

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