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No. That's what someone who enjoys sitting on fences does.
An intelligent and fair-minded person does neither.
What exactly about western civilization should I celebrate?
Lol.
No. That's what someone who enjoys sitting on fences does.
Democracy, the rule of law, individual rights. the three pillars of western culture.
Then how about the history of western architecture, medicine, scientific advancement, humanism. Then there's western art, literature, music, painting and invention. Sport, media, cuisine. I'm sure you'll find something to celebrate in what's been mentioned.
If I said "blackness should not be celebrated. It should be condemned" you'd call me a racist. I believe that condemnation of any racial group is racist. You're a racist, against white people.
What a ridiculous statement.
One does not have to chose to hate either whites or blacks,as only an extremely stupid person would think so. The only "fence" here is in the imaginations of the haters.
Would be great if any of those things functioned for the people.
Less important to me than socialism and liberation.
Blackness is condemned every day. "
You can't be racist against whites if you live in a majority white country.
I believe that medicine, architecture and innovation always functions for the people. Are you a troll?
LOL. You're alive because of inventions, medicine and scientific advancement due to some of the advances of Western civilization. Are you a moron? You don't like freedom of speech that was conceptualized in the West?
You're a troll, surely. I'm not bothering anymore. According to your logic blacks in Apartheid South Africa couldn't be victims of racism as they lived in a black-majority country.
Who says that teaching has problem with rabid liberals infecting everything they touch? Here is the latest teacher training in Critical Whiteness Studies:
The city of Madison hosted the 15th annual national White Privilege Conference last week at the Monona Terrace to discuss issues of white supremacy, social justice, education and the Tea Party. The MacIver Institute attended multiple breakout sessions and will be releasing our highlights over the next couple days.
Our first account comes from the breakout session titled Stories from the front lines of education: Confessions of a white, high school English teacher.
The session was facilitated by Kim Radersma, a former high school English teacher in California and Colorado. Radersma is currently working toward her Ph. D. in critical whiteness studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.
Radersma argued that teachers must fight against the oppressive structure in education and society. She said anyone who is going into teaching and education must be a political figure.
"Teaching is a political act, and you can't choose to be neutral. You are either a pawn used to perpetuate a system of oppression or you are fighting against it," Radersma said during the session. "And if you think you are neutral, you are a pawn."
She said educators need to challenge the system, otherwise they are giving in to white supremacy. Radersma also argued the first step is realizing that all white people are carrying the signs of oppression.
"Being a white person who does anti-racist work is like being an alcoholic. I will never be recovered by my alcoholism, to use the metaphor," Radersma said. "I have to everyday wake up and acknowledge that I am so deeply imbedded with racist thoughts and notions and actions in my body that I have to choose everyday to do anti-racist work and think in an anti-racist way."
She argued that until white people admit they have a problem, they will not be able to fight against white privilege.
"If you don't want to work for equity, get the **** out of education," Radersma said. "If you are not serious about being an agent of change that helps stifle the oppressive systems, go find another job. Because you are a political figure."
During the session, Radersma also discussed the problem of growing achievement gaps between white students and students of color in schools across America. She told a story about her time as a teacher in Denver, Colorado.
Radersma said she taught a lower-level English class at the high school and her students were exclusively people of color. However, she said the Advanced Placement course in her school was almost all white and Asian students. Her principal observed class one day and commented on the difference in students between the two courses.
That experience, and the fact that her boss did not know how to tackle the problem, led her to leave the classroom and work toward her Ph. D. Radersma told the group she realized the problem was the institutionalized racist structure of education and her white privilege was causing the racial achievement gap.
You see that text in bold, well that shows that she's a true scientist. She knew the answer before she even studied the issue. Once she knew the answer then she applied to grad school so that she could train in Critical Whiteness Studies. You go girl.
"I came to higher ed to study. What is this problem that I'm scared of? I don't know what to do. My principal is scared of this. Where do I point? Who's at fault? My white body is at fault," she said. "My racial identity, as a white person who believes that I am somehow better or more deserving, is the problem. The white supremacy, the structure is the problem."
Since discovering her white privilege was the problem leading to the achievement gap, she said that she is now working to get more minorities into the education profession. Radersma told the group she thinks that students of color cannot learn as well from white teachers.
Here's a suggestion, I offer it with no hidden agenda - how about testing what you know, testing that you are indeed the cause of the racial Achievement Gap. Why not see if that's true?
Another topic of discussion was how white people's actions, like donating to charity or helping a family in need, are inherently racist. A white attendee of the conference told a story about how her family donated school supplies to one of her classmates when she was in first grade because the family could not afford them.
The receiving family had moved from India, according to the attendee. While she was happy to be helping when it happen years ago, she was now questioning her family's motives.
"It was like 'well why don't you swoop in and save the day and give her all this stuff because we can afford to do that for them' kind of mentality," she said in the session.
Radersma agreed and said the family that was helped likely felt discriminated against. . . .
The conference was paid for in part with taxpayer dollars. According to the Wisconsin Reporter, the conference received at least $38,000 from hotel room tax revenue, University of Wisconsin schools, and the City of Madison.
In addition to taxpayer and private funding, individuals had to pay upwards of $440 to attend the four-day conference.
I'm not a public school teacher so I'm just guessing blindly here but I don't believe that teachers really pay $440 out of their own pockets to attend these seminars, it's most like their school districts that foot the bill.
Why come you didn't include conquest and colonization?
Really? They were all made by some all encompassing "west"? Perhaps I just don't have the allegiance to this inane idea that you do.
Funny how he always insists on not being a racist.
Another day, another race-based thread/post from RiverDad.
Does this guy think of anything else?
Racism and homophobia is linked to having a lower IQ
'Everyone likes to hear that they have a high IQ, at least most of us. And a study from 2012 revealed findings that might help tell the difference genuinely. In short, it found that racist people may be dumb.'
Read more: Racism and homophobia is linked to having a lower IQ. - Serious Facts
I believe that those who believe there's something of intrinsic value in having white skin colour are racists.
Taking care not to launch any personal attack, I can only say I have had some forum experiences elsewhere where dedicated "stealth" racists post some big pile of racist tripe dressed as genuine opinion. They are then so deluded as to think they can draw in innocent posters, engage them via disingenuous posting and spring a racist ephiphany on the unsuspecting which they actually think will convert such innocents into adopting a racist agenda.
Fruitbats.
Less important to me than socialism and liberation.
I like this juxtoposition. Sweet. Let me try that. I love being alive and dead. I'm going to talk to that person by being silent.
Liberation and socialism go together like gasoline and fire. Liberation and enslavement, does that make sense to anyone?
Can you teach me to make bad analogies, and to be as wrong as you?
Yeah, you just described the situation perfectly.
I would accuse such people of intellectual dishonesty, but considering what these people think of themselves they would probably reply:
"Intellectual! Thank you!"
I like this juxtoposition. Sweet. Let me try that. I love being alive and dead. I'm going to talk to that person by being silent.
Liberation and socialism go together like gasoline and fire. Liberation and enslavement, does that make sense to anyone?
If I'm in your society and I don't want to live under socialism but you want all of my money, then what will you do as the leader of society?
If you are in our society and you don't want to live under socialism, you may cast your vote. If the rest of us want to live under socialism, it's tough tatty to you, you're living in society which chooses democracy and you are outvoted.
You mean like if men outnumber women and they organize a referendum on the issue that women have to submit to sex with any man who approaches them and demands sex, then women have to comply because the majority has spoken? Is that what you mean?
No, I mean what I said.
Are you confused about what a democratic vote is?
There are always exceptions.
One of us is confused and it's not me.
I object to you taking a vote and deciding to take away all of my assets.
That you feel that this is open to a vote tells me something.
Socialism and liberation are like being alive and dead at the same time.
Well, you have to understand that you live in a shared society. It's not your society only. The other people in your society have the very same rights as you.
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