University to students: 'All whites are racist'

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University to students: 'All whites are racist'
Mandatory program 'treats' politically incorrect attitudes

A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group.

"Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of conscience – the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental intrusion. It also protects the right to be free from compelled speech," said a letter from Samantha Harris, director of legal and public advocacy for The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to university President Patrick Harker.

The organization cited excerpts from the university's Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents, including the statement:

"A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. 'The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination….'"

The foundation said students even are "pressured or even required" to make social statements that meet with the school's approval.

"The fact that the university views its students as patients in need of treatment for some sort of moral sickness betrays a total lack of respect not only for students' basic rights, but for students themselves," Lukianoff said. "The University of Delaware has both a legal and a moral obligation to immediately dismantle this program, and FIRE will not rest until it has."

A spokesman for the school, contacted by WND, said he was not ready to make a statement about the situation right away.

Insanity... this is racism, pure and simple, even though it is a social term.

Of course, that there is only one race... the human race.
Some just have more melanin and some equatorial adjustments than others, nothing more.
Same race.

[DanaC]

"A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. 'The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination….'"

What? So a black guy from a nice middle class family with his own business, or a black guy in the police force can't back up his discrimination if he is racist towards people of arabic or mexican descent?

*shakes head* that's just ridiculous.

[jinx]

Nov. 1, 2007

The University of Delaware strives for an environment in which all people
feel welcome to learn, and which supports intellectual curiosity, critical
thinking, free inquiry and respect for the views and values of an
increasingly diverse population. The University is committed to the
education of students as citizens, scholars and professionals and their
preparation to contribute creatively and with integrity to a global society.
The purpose of the residence life educational program is to support these
commitments.

While I believe that recent press accounts misrepresent the purpose of the
residential life program at the University of Delaware, there are questions
about its practices that must be addressed and there are reasons for concern
that the actual purpose is not being fulfilled. It is not feasible to
evaluate these issues without a full and broad-based review.

Upon the recommendation of Vice President for Student Life Michael Gilbert
and Director of Residence Life Kathleen Kerr, I have directed that the
program be stopped immediately. No further activities under the current
framework will be conducted.

Vice President Gilbert will work with the University Faculty Senate and
others to determine the proper means by which residence life programs may
support the intellectual, cultural and ethical development of our students.

Patrick Harker

President

This really backs my theory that communism/socialism is being pushed at many of our universities.
This is not really about "race", it is against capitalism.

[DanaC]

This really backs my theory that communism/socialism is being pushed at many of our universities.

wtf has any of that to do with socialism? also socialism and communism aren't the same thing.

The education program also notes that "reverse racism" is "a term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege." And "a non-racist" is called "a non-term," because, the program explains, "The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift the responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called 'blaming the victim')."

According to university materials, RAs are instructed to ask students during one-on-one sessions questions such as: "When did you discover your sexual identity?" "When were you first made aware of your race?" and "Who taught you a lesson in regard to some sort of diversity awarness? What was the lesson?"

"Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA's 'worst' one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having 'diversity shoved down her throat,'" FIRE said.

This particular student responded to the question, "When did you discover your sexual identity?" with the terse: "That is none of your damn business," FIRE said.

Requirements for students include: "Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society," "Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression," and "Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality," FIRE said.

[DanaC]

that still isn't socialism rk. It may be an attack on laissez faire capitalism or the consumerist society but socialism's a little more than just anti-consumerism and a desire to end racist oppression

The only way to end racism is to stop acknowledging the myth of "race".

[DanaC]

That only works if everybody acknowledges it. If it's just you and the poeple who think like you, that's all very well, but it doesn't help the black kid who keeps getting pulled by the cops for no good reason.

There is a point where you just outlive them and educate their kids out from under them until those who still cling to it are ignored and ostracized.
Then society will not tolerate those people being in a police uniform, they will speak-up and stop them when it happens like they should.
Flat Earth.

[DanaC]

*thinks about that*

I'd like to think you're right on that. I fear they're doing plenty of educating their kids themselves.

[DanaC]

But..either way. If you'e right, then what you are talking about is generational change. In the meantime the problem persists.

Do you really think you can change a "racists" mind?

[DanaC]

*thinks*

Sometimes. But mainly if they change they change themselves. I've known a few reformed racists in my time. I know of some interesting cases too. There was an interview with a guy who was a prominent member of the NF during the late seventies, early eighties. He was one of the football hooligan, terrace fascists. He and a couple of his mates got into clubbing in the late eighties, early nineties. Got into ecstacy and the loved up rave scene and totally changed. He's now married to a black lass.

I know some too, related to one and friends with another.
Yes, they change themselves alone, through observation.