“Work” on Your “Whiteness,” Professor Says

Did y’all forget for a hot second that there are *white* grovellers out there making money off people by telling them they suck for a shared, uncontrollable physical characteristic?

I didn’t, but in case you had returned to your blissful state of unawareness, here’s this load of B.S….

From The College Fix:

White people need to acknowledge their faults and fix their “whiteness,” according to an Oregon sociologist.

Professor Emily Drew will host a “conversation” in February “for white people to reflect together on what it means to ‘do our work’ as white people,” according to an announcement.

The Willamette University professor’s presentation at a local library is titled “Working on Our Whiteness.”

Participants will be asked to consider the following questions:

How can we who are white show up as more effective and less damaging participants in struggles to interrupt racism in our community? How can white people engage in efforts to dismantle racism in ways that do not reproduce or place unfair burdens upon people of color to be our teachers?

The “work” that white people must focus on “includes taking responsibility for one another, educating ourselves, and coming to view other white people as our partners—not competition—in developing antiracist identity.”

Drew also teaches ethnic studies at Willamette. “She gives presentations at universities and community-based organizations on the subjects of white privilege, gentrification, fair housing, reparations and affirmative action,” according to her bio. “In all of these capacities, she is an organizer and strategic planner, helping institutions develop and implement long term commitments to anti-racist, multicultural diversity.”

I guess her place of employment was at least smart enough to choose not to host this… or is that wishful thinking?

I can’t decide if I find the idea of white people pushing this agenda funny or horrifying…

Funny in the sense that they’re being little capitalists, or horrifying because they might actually believe the hot trash they’re spewing…

Do they believe it? I honestly can’t even tell if they’ve just figured out there’s money to be made here, or if they’ve actually convinced themselves that they’re the Jim Jones of Whiteguiltville.

Drink the Kool-Aid dammit…

Also… is anyone going to point out that the white woman is a professor of ethnic studies? Seems to me that she’s standing in the way of a qualified professor of minority status.

This, of course, is me pulling from the progressive bag of bullsh*t. I don’t give a rip if she teaches ethnic studies. If she’s knowledgeable, and worthy of the job, then let her have it. The school she teaches at is more than 60% white anyway…

You’d think that wouldn’t be acceptable in today’s social climate, but… whatever.

You know what would be a better utilization of resources? A presentation on the difference between too, to, and two. THEY’RE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE.

Also: there, they’re, and their.

The amount of people I deal with every day that can’t figure this out after I explain it to them is horrifying.

To sum up: less self-hate summits, more grammar gatherings.