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2017-08-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Writing Conference Canceled Because Of Too Many White People
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Posted by Fred 2017-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 William Alexander, winner of a National Book Award, is a Cuban-American author.

'Ethnic' when they need them to be, 'White Hispanic' when they don't. Funny how that works!
Posted by Raj 2017-08-12 00:31||   2017-08-12 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 So... white people aren't 'ethnic'?
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-08-12 00:38||   2017-08-12 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, yes, since white isn't a color (or something like that).
Posted by Raj 2017-08-12 01:03||   2017-08-12 01:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Quick! Bury it! It doesn't fit the narrative!
Posted by gorb 2017-08-12 02:43||   2017-08-12 02:43|| Front Page Top

#5 NBF spinning in his grave, laughing?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-12 04:07||   2017-08-12 04:07|| Front Page Top

#6  young adult author Shannon Gibney

Sigh.
Posted by Black Bart Bumble9289 2017-08-12 05:27||   2017-08-12 05:27|| Front Page Top

#7 We have set a goal for ourselves to be inclusive and to work toward equity...

There's that word again. It may not mean what you think it means.
Posted by DepotGuy  2017-08-12 07:51||   2017-08-12 07:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah yes - Shannon Gibney:

Shannon Gibney, an English faculty member at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, told MCTC student newspaper City College News in a video interview that three white students filed a complaint against her with the school after a discussion on structural racism in one of her communications classes.

In the interview, which was posted by the college newspaper to YouTube, Gibney says a white student interrupted her lesson to ask “Why do we have to talk about this in every class?” Another white male in the class then chimed in, Gibney told the student paper, saying he didn’t understand either. “It’s like people are trying to say that white men are always the villains, the bad guys. Why do we have to say this?” the student asked, according to Gibney.

Gibney said that when she told the students that they could file a complaint with the college’s legal affairs department if they were so unhappy with the discussion, they took her up on her offer. That led to an official reprimand from the school in early November, she claims.
Posted by Pappy 2017-08-12 09:26||   2017-08-12 09:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Twenty-two authors were set to speak at the event

So they needed 2.5 writers of color?
Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-12 10:28||   2017-08-12 10:28|| Front Page Top

#10 It was because of the bring-your-own buffet after the conference; 25 jars of mayonaise and no salsa.
Posted by ed in texas 2017-08-12 13:15||   2017-08-12 13:15|| Front Page Top

#11 And the entertainment was a one-armed accordion player.
Posted by Pappy 2017-08-12 13:35||   2017-08-12 13:35|| Front Page Top

#12 So they needed 2.5 writers of color?

They could invite Rachel Dolezal and Elizabeth Warren, then hope that half of a writer would show up.
Posted by gorb 2017-08-12 13:50||   2017-08-12 13:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Shaun King attended?
Posted by Frank G on the Road 2017-08-12 14:16||   2017-08-12 14:16|| Front Page Top

#14 All the speakers were white, ergo the conference was cancelled because of a lack of diversity?

That is inane, idiotic, silly and stupid beyond belief. Grow up. They've gone way overboard with this diversity nonsense.
Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-12 17:38||   2017-08-12 17:38|| Front Page Top

#15 Supremacist spuds in colcannon?
Just black bile and cabbage for Shannon!
One stygian droplet
That falls from her chaplet
Could blacken Buchanan or Bannon.

Always after me Lucky Charms.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-08-12 19:29||   2017-08-12 19:29|| Front Page Top

#16 stygian ebony
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-08-12 19:32||   2017-08-12 19:32|| Front Page Top

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