UCLA Extension Course: "Whiteness in US History...."
Check out this nifty on line UCLA Extension course set for January 2010: Understanding "whiteness" in American history and culture. If you don't already have enough white guilt or if you're a non-white who still does not already harbor pathological hatred of white people and white culture and you have an extra $535.00, you can sign up for this nifty class and get academic credit for learning to hate white people because they're responsible for all the evils of the world. :)
Understanding Whiteness in American History and Culture: Deconstructing White Privilege for the Reconstruction of an Anti-Racist White Identity (Online) History XL M151C 4.00 units Reg. # Status Location Start Date Fee V4281 Open online 1/7/2010 $535 Add to Cart Eurocentric American history often masks the saliency of how the formation of Whiteness ultimately supports mechanisms of race and racism. This course outlines the historical development of Whiteness and critically analyzes the sociological results that stem from its birth. Segmented into three modules, the course provides a historical framework of the birth of Whiteness; explores Whiteness (namely, White Supremacy and White Privilege) and how they impact people of color and uphold racial hierarchy; and, in acknowledging that the relevance of history is inextricably tied to modern society, draws from liberatory, transformative, and emancipatory praxis, to engage in a REconstruction of anti-racist white racial identity. Throughout the course students are expected to critically engage in dialogue and identify and challenge their preconceived racial assumptions. For technical requirements click here. January 7 - March 25 12 meetings total https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=V4281 |
This is EXACTLY what is happening and being taught at just about all of the colleges and universities. Wake up! It all starts in our schools. I could say that a thousand times, yet how many are listening? Take time to find out what and where this mindset started and continues at full force today. And your tax dollars are paying for it.
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There's been a bunch of stuff that sounds like this in the print media over the last few months or so. The latest I saw was an essay in the LA Times the other day along the lines of institutionalized racism in organizations which oppress minorities without "white oppressors" realizing it.
Total crap. I don't believe in the all encompassing conspiracy theory thing, but it seems to be more intensified since Obama has been in office and it gets closer to the Democratic time table to push amnesty. Opposition to Obama's agendas is "racist", as is objection to the health care scam. Racism is implied in opinion essays which flatly say "White middle age middle class Californians don't want to spend money educating minorities", is claimed as motivation for enforcing immigration laws, 187g, and much more ad infinatum, ad naseum... A couple of years ago, the papers were full of "poor, deserving (illegal) immigrant stories, then when the economy took a dive they babbled a couple of months about how many "Latinos" were out of work, then switched to "white racism" without much reference to "hard working" illegals. It's like "once size fits all" Japanese pantyhose three or four decades ago. |
It makes one wonder. What has become of intellectual rigor in our universities? It is easy to be shocked by such nonsense, but why is there no intellectual scandal? Any idiot can see that there is nothing to this kind of stuff, and since it is so easy to see, you would think that a university professor with an ounce of integrity could pull it apart and leave it all in the gutter on a lunch break. But there is no intellectual opposition.
And you know where we have seen this kind of foolishness before? Racism. Real racism when they used to teach it at the universities. In fact, I wouldn't be suprised if there aren't still a few universities out there, somewhere, that are still teaching, good ole' fashion racial superiority, where white people are avowed to be genetically superior as human being to the rest of the nonwhite world (Not talking the Asians I guess, mostly "negroes" and aboriginal people everywhere). The real struggle against racism in the universities was an intellectual struggle with intellectual rigor. It didn't take much. Racial superiority has very little observation to back it up and real racism died an easy death in the universities. Until now. |
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Notice that this is not really a university course, but a university extension course. Still it is a sad display, and any university should be ashamed to have that kind of drivel associated with it. |
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The universities and their professors are not going to hold themselves to intellectual standards not respected by the public in general. And that is where the problem is. People are getting more and more superstitious and ignorant every day. A good part of these low standards are directly due to our wretched state of immigration.
Not only are they more and more superstitious every day, but they don't like it when science contradicts their superstitious beliefs. Creationism, for example, has no intellectual respectability in biology or geology and yet demands intellectual respectability from everyone else. Racism is another example. People want to be racist and want now and have wanted the universities and science to back them up. But there is no science to back them up. Doesn't matter, it's forced into the universities like a square peg into a round hole. And only professors who agree get the tenure. Professors don't write their own paychecks. |
I believe you an I are speaking on two different plains. The philosophy on campus is the philosophy of most under 35. Where did that philosophy come from? Answer: our schools and universities. So when you speak of the "public" remember the public is not homogenous, both demographic and geographic. But also the greatest distinction between one group and the other is on our university campuses.
The public opinion has very little impact, if any, as to what is taught. Why do you see what you see happening today on our school campuses. Anyone speaking against illegal immigration is attacked both physically and philosophically. We don't have must input at all. Sure maybe at a grade school level, but even there it is limited. When you get to the university level it's basically 'you don't like what we are teaching or doing, then get out'. It's that black and white. And don't think that funding will hold sway over this philosophy. People holding the purse strings are getting exactly what they want. Ask George Soros why his organization ANSWER recruits from the university campuses. |
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Universities exist that will teach students of particular religious persuasions and place everything they teach in the context of those beliefs. But the most respected universities are those with the most universal point of view. This means especially science. Science pays and the best universities will provide the best education in science and technology, else they will not get students from parents who are willing to pay for the best. Somewhere this need for intellectual respectability is being shortchanged, but blaming some elitest intellectual cabal in the universities is a little like blaming the victim. Except there isn't enough intellectual life left in many universities to support any intellectual elite. |
The tuition is a small pittance of what it cost to run a university or college. But as I said, we are approaching this from completely different plains, or is it planes? I could never spell very well.
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