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2010-04-05 Great White North

White & guilty: 'Whiteness' workshop helps expose your inner racist

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Posted by tipper 2010-04-05 06:25|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Does anyone know if tuition assistance for these workshops is available under Obamacare? Tax deductable?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-05 07:13|| 2010-04-05 07:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow they are 30 years behind the times. In the early 80s I had to attend "Race relations" when I was in the service. The course would be better titled: "Your white and you should be ashamed of yourself" Later it was renamed "Equal Opportunity" to focus on the sins of people who had the mistake of being born both white and male. It seems that because I lacked a vagina and dark skin, my life had been way to easy. Total waste of time IMHO.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-04-05 08:57|| 2010-04-05 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 When the Navy started this nonsense in the '70's, it quickly got the nickname "Archie Bunker School" due to its actual effect of reinforcing negative opinions of other racial groups.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-04-05 09:04|| 2010-04-05 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I also heard one student say she rejected the term "gender-neutral" as sexist, and instead preferred "gender-fluid."

Isn't that the fluid that determines your gender?

Posted by penguin 2010-04-05 09:07|| 2010-04-05 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 From the same thinking that 'acting white' is now the pejorative term used to refer to others, within certain self identifying racial groups, who are successful academically and why Asian is now the 'new white'.

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" - Matthew 7:3

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-05 09:44|| 2010-04-05 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Am I supposed to feel guilty about being white? My forebearers didn't even come to this country until around the 1900s on my mother's side. On my father's side they came from Ireland around the time of the potato famine. Neither side had an easy time of it. Coal miners on one side and laborers on the other side. There were a fair number of Irish who were indentured servants and had to buy their way out of servitude. My wife's parents were Jewish. They came here after WWII. They were in the German concentration camps. She lost her grandparents and some of her aunts and uncles there. Her relatives were slaves in these camps. So screw this article. People can feel guilty if they like but it is a waste of time for me.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-05 10:36|| 2010-04-05 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Besoeker - look for it to become mandatory in order to get your mandatory health insurnace (unless your one of the privileged races of course...).

And just think..... these people - the 'students' in this workshop - are going to be determining your healthcare.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-04-05 10:39|| 2010-04-05 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 So... being Irish and successful during anti-catholic and anti-Irish times, Cherokee during repression and poor German ancestors....

Does that mean I can collect money from the government for my ancestors being repressed while loathing myself and my European heritage?

I'm so confused....

Posted by DarthVader 2010-04-05 11:13|| 2010-04-05 11:13|| Front Page Top

#9 I had two RR seminars within 6 months because I was born (spit, spit) WHITE!!! They use to start them with the statement, "If you don't believe you're a racist then you can walk out now!" Believing that no one would do it. I did at the second one and got my ass in a sling for it.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-04-05 11:13|| 2010-04-05 11:13|| Front Page Top

#10 i hope they do make it manbdatory sop i can tell them too go too hell with that BS too along with their mandatory healthcare coverage. Couldn't afford it before what makes them think I can now.

Posted by chris 2010-04-05 13:26|| 2010-04-05 13:26|| Front Page Top

#11 I am an AMERICAN! To hell with the hyphenated bull$hit. "Whiteness" workshops do nothing more than ~~foster~~ fester scabs and split Americans. The people who promote such garbage can go to hell for trying to Balkanize America.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-05 14:00|| 2010-04-05 14:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Happened in Canada but it could just as well be U.S.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-05 14:04|| 2010-04-05 14:04|| Front Page Top

#13 I wonder if anti-Semitism is covered in these classes.

Posted by Matt 2010-04-05 14:33|| 2010-04-05 14:33|| Front Page Top

#14 of course not we have an anti semite in the whitehouse, bunch of them actually

Posted by chris 2010-04-05 14:43|| 2010-04-05 14:43|| Front Page Top

#15 a few observations:

1) These people have entirely too much time on their hands.

2) see no.1

3) Society has become so pathetically soft that a century or so ago idiots like these would've suffered at the hands of natural selection. Man I hate pussified liberals.

4) the mere notion that only whites can be racist is in of itself racist.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-04-05 14:47|| 2010-04-05 14:47|| Front Page Top

#16 Just like the Black Congressional Caucus and the LSM whoring out the race card the other day when they lied about the N-word - this type of sh*t simply makes it much, much, more harder when there is *real* racism in play. And I believe that there is real, live, racism out there - and some of it is fairly ugly.

The next time there is an instance of *real* racism - the victims are either going to get laughed off, ignored, or not taken seriously because crap like this (and the Black Congressional Caucus) makes racism complaints a joke.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-04-05 15:30|| 2010-04-05 15:30|| Front Page Top

#17 I wonder if anti-Semitism is covered in these classes.

anti-Semitism = an irrational hatred of Arabs felt by some white people---in particular white people of Zionist-aggressor ancestry.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-04-05 16:51|| 2010-04-05 16:51|| Front Page Top

#18 Come on guys let's all sing!

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Grolumble6435 2010-04-05 17:26|| 2010-04-05 17:26|| Front Page Top

#19 Alla them Semites are kinda seedy, if ya asks me.

(See what I did there?)

Posted by mojo 2010-04-05 17:32|| 2010-04-05 17:32|| Front Page Top

#20 Oh, the white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folks
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark
Are dancing cheek to cheek
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school

h, the poor folks hate the rich folks
And the rich folks hate the poor folks
All of my folks hate all of your folks
It's American as apple pie

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans
'Cause it's very chic
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand
You can tolerate him if you try

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Moslems
And everybody hates the Jews

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-
One-Another-hood Week
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you
It's only for a week, so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

Thank You Tom Lehrer

Posted by Cheaderhead 2010-04-05 17:55|| 2010-04-05 17:55|| Front Page Top

#21 "If you don't believe you're a racist then you can walk out now!"

I'd have been right behind you, AA.

I don't do well in these ~~classes~~ insults - I refuse to play the victim card, and actually say nice things about men I know (not boyfriends, just friends). It drive them nuts. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-05 18:05|| 2010-04-05 18:05|| Front Page Top

#22 As long as there's moonbats, thar's gold in that thar guilt industry. They wanna feel like shit about themselves. They don't know any other way. It's like S&M without the whips.

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-05 19:01|| 2010-04-05 19:01|| Front Page Top

#23 Just remember - the new definition of racist is "anyone who disagrees with the ONE in any way".

Posted by DMFD 2010-04-05 21:32|| 2010-04-05 21:32|| Front Page Top

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