Deconstructing Whiteness By James Reed

     I knew that as soon as I looked I would find something pathetically absurd being done by some university somewhere in the West:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-30/berkeley-students-teach-peers-about-whiteness-and-decolonizing

“This fall, University of California, Berkeley students can learn about “white comfort/coddling,” “decolonizing Palestine,” and making research less “isolating” for “marginalized” students. The courses in question are offered through UC Berkeley’s DeCal program, which the university describes as “legitimate university courses run by students” that qualify for academic credit and can even fulfill graduation requirements. "This class will not be to coddle white fragility, but to deconstruct and relearn whiteness through case studies, speakers, and intense, critical readings."

In one course, titled Deconstructing Whiteness, students will “confront uncomfortable conversations about privilege and positionality” in order to “understand where white bodies have the responsibility to be in movements against white supremacy and in solidarity with marginalized peoples and groups of color.” The description makes clear that the course “will not be to coddle white fragility, but to deconstruct and relearn whiteness through case studies, speakers, and intense, critical readings.” The course syllabus outlines questions to be addressed during the class, such as “How does recentering what we see as violent and violence reposition who needs protection?” “What are liberal whites’ roles in colonization of education?” “What does the trope of the ‘Good White Person’ do for ally-ship and conversations around equality?” and “What is one way that the history of white people as inherently innocent, and their tradition as ‘natural’ and therefore good, be disrupted?” The course also addresses “Environmental Racism,” arguing that “food practices [have] been gentrified,” as well as units on “White Comfort/Coddling,” “White Emptiness of Culture/Cultural Appropriation,” and “White Entertainment.”

     Then we have US academics rejecting diversity of thought, denouncing it as “racist,” for what other words do they know?
  https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9272

“Professors at a recent conference hosted by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis reportedly called whiteness “inherently violent,” saying “diversity of opinion” is just “white supremacist bullshit.” The conference, held between May 31 and June 2, was organized by the Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA), an organization that frequently hosts similar events to bring together an “interdisciplinary consortium of experts who recognize global implications of race and education for minoritized people.” "There is no virtue in whiteness, it is inherently violent."  “As a community, we are committed to (1) countering and combating systemic and structural racism with scholarship and praxis, (2) recognizing the multiple locations of oppression and the myriad manifestations and effects of their intersections and (3) co-constructing liberating knowledge that facilitates collective agency to transform schools and communities,” the group describes itself on its website, a description supported by several attendees at its most recent conference, who quoted highlights from the event on Twitter. “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.”

     The only good thing about this is that students doing this sort of bs are probably going to end up unemployed when the economy tightens up even more, so it is just a matter of grinning and bearing it, until that part of the system collapses under its own internal rottenness. With it will go the boomer professors, who probably could not survive outside of the labour done by the white deplorables to feed them. Likewise for the even more economically vulnerable Hollywood pretenders and their eternally bleeding hearts:
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/08/29/stephen-colbert-feeling-good-about-being-a-white-male-is-a-dark-feeling/