There is a fad currently infecting academia and it is known as “white privilege.” It is part of a philosophy meant to marginalize and diminish the white race. Harvard, a bastion of politically correct idiocy, has taken on the burden of helping to teach the white race a lesson. It now offers an orientation course called “checking your privilege.”
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is now requiring all first year students to undergo a course titled “checking your privilege” as part of their orientation.
As if this requirement doesn’t seem preposterous enough, the school also wants to move toward training faculty and administrators in privilege and power too.
This requirement comes after a controversial yet popular op-ed penned by a student at Princeton where he stated the term “check your privilege” is detrimental to students. Students are being asked to consider how their good fortune might impair their ability to empathize with others. Why is it that we are asking students to apologize for or to analyze their accomplishments and successes?
Harvard is now denying such a thing exists
The internet outrage mill got something wrong? Can it be?
It’s true. Despite numerous reports that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government planned to institute an orientation seminar on white “power and privilege” for its incoming freshman, a school spokesperson says the school has absolutely no intention of requiring or even offering such a program.
Not so fast. It’s happening, but it’s just not under that name:
The school will instead “revamp” its already existing diversity training for incoming students, according to the Kennedy School’s Director of Media Relations Doug Gavel.
“Contrary to one article that has been picked up by others, the school is not planning to offer classes, coursework, or sessions devoted specifically to ‘power and privilege,’” he wrote in a statement to Boston.com.
With that as a background, I’d like you to meet the Harvard Board of Trustees, AKA the Harvard Corporation
Drew Galpin Faust
Lawrence Bacow
James Breyer
Paul Finnegan
Susan Graham
Nannerl Keohane
William F. Lee
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Joseph O’Donnell
Robert Reischauer
James F. Rothenberg
Robert Rubin
Other than the token Asian, notice anything?
As Jeff Goldstein put it:
Oh for fuck’s sake
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
We are talking about Hawvid here. And Hawvid is a bastion of establishment prestige and privilege.
Just ignore the blatant lack of diversity of the Trustees. In their hearts they are black, or indian, or feminist, or something. Like Sen Warren, they are 1/32 something or other.
The trustees and the faculty need not check their own privilege. Their privilege is theirs by right. They got it honestly, they inherited it.
It is not right for those of us who are not similarly privileged to criticize Hawvid. They are so far above us that we have nothing to add to the discussion. Just ask them. After all, their endowment is enormous. Since they are rich, clearly they are correct!
Mark my words. Hawvid is THE PC establishment, and whatever they say goes.
Eat dirt, flyover country!
I see a lot of Irish
as far as the student body is concerned here is the make up of the class of 2010
52% women
10% Latino
1.4% Native American
10.5% African American
18% Asian Americans
If families make less than 60 grand students pay no tuition
About 20% of the class are either dual citizens, foreign citizens, or Americans living abroad.
Of course these will become the 1% and become our new Sith overlords.
The more power leftists acquire the more they reveal their derangement. These are sick, sick people.
CAN Those lazy teachers teach the young student enlighting matters instead of humiliate the youngs who are white, diminish what ever, whoever, so to take away the pride of the youth to be there,
a priviledge yes so that’s good, NOT A BAD THING , they want to learn higher not lower, they want to concentrate on their own self to be able to absorbe the teaching matter, they don’t want to have somedaY SOMEONE, tell them
you didn”t build that business other did by building the road to get to your business, DAM YES YOU DID,
are HARVARD LOOSING THEIR PRESTIGE TO BE AT THE STAGE TO STOP BUILDING THE POWERS OF THE MIND BY PUTTING A ROD TO STOP THE ENGINE OF THOUGHT THAT THEY ARE ONE AND THE BEST
OF THE CROUD AND ARE THINKING OF THE UNLIMIT FUTURE CREATIVITY,
INSTEAD OF WAITING TO BE LED AND HEARD WITHIN THE CROUD OF LEMMING, WHO ARE HEADING FOR THE CLIFF, BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN LIMITS WHICH IS A NO NO AT THEIR AGES,
I SAY, REFRESH THE TEACHER, REPLACE THEM BY MORE SPIRITED HUMAN, who first and above all, can open their mind to the unkown values which ,
will build their mental strength, leaving them unafraid of searching for the gold as a keepsake ,
instead of selling it to pay for those defeating study,WHICH FROM THE GET GO ARE BREAKING THE
INNER GOAL IN THEIR GUTTS, AND CERTANTY ,THEY CAN MAKE THEM THE BEST , OF THEIR FUTUR,
PROUD AND STRONG AND FIRST OF THE CLASS, BECAUSE THEY ARE ONLY THERE AT HARVARD TO BE TAUGHT,
not to be changed
Endowments are the top way the Saudis buy American universities.
The Saudis had ”given,” (with strings) over $20 BILLION through 2013.
Harvard got plenty of that so is it any wonder white Christians are being taught to denigrate themselves?
Academia Nuts. 😉
Here’s more from the melanin obsessed fascists in Madison, Wisconsin.
Dr.J., timely post.
There is no question that fostering and promoting guilt of being white has worked. Much of California has bought it, and so has NY. It’s a sickness. Self-hatred is an infectious disease.
Guilt causes stress and stress kills — WTF — we are allowing a suicide program to prevail on our shores? Take a good look at the “white” geniuses who are advocating this garbage — all appear to be insecure idiots looking for a cause. They need a messiah and keep looking to Harvard for someone to step out and walk on water.
@Jim S:
LOL….thanks….I needed that.
James Raider
yes, those teachers are I’m sure ask from the BLACK LEADER,
to find an equivalent solution to the miserable gapt between the colors,
which identified the white as superior at the end of the year,
why pick on the WHITE STUDENTS, because those teachers are afraid of being call racist,
so they figure a way to delegate their fear onto the whites students,
get them into a conflict of interest, which reflect on both, one is not achieving, and cannot follow up,
the other is over achieving because he paid so much to have learn and produce an end of the year so brilliant, and find only whites on his back,
he worked and achieved, and is ready to take the glory that goes with it, and deserved it,
the other are not his problem, NOT ALL CAN BE BRILLIANT, BUT THOSE WHO ARE ARE CERTAIN TO FIND ENVY AND SHOULD NOT BOTHER WITH IT, THEY MUST CLIME HIGHER TO BECOME
EARNED position of LEADERS WORTHY OF HAVING A TOP
place in their lives, that is to be promote not shut down,
LET NO ONE DEMEAN THEM, THEY who do,
SHOW SPITE AND NEVER RISE MORE THAN TEACHING,
It’s a good thing, for Harvard, that most of their alumni are white so they can go there as descendants and still be white. That’s not prejudice, just luck.
I like to look at it as someone squandered 50 years of preference and opted for EBT cards. Spanish, Viet, Irish and all the others come here to this same country and flourish except for one group. What the hell happened? Oh, Jackson and Sharpton – never mind.
Nothing like a bunch of (Rich) Academia Elitists trying to bring people together…
BISHOP RON ALLEN
has the right words for THOSE who want to implement the teaching of how to grow drugs,
it’s a real mess,
TED CRUZ IS THAT ONE ON YOUR LIST? IT SHOULD BE, BECAUSE IT POISON THE YOUTH,
WHAT KIND OF BABY WILL COME OUT OF THEIR BODY BEING POISON BY THE WEED,
THEY DON’T THINK FURTHER THAN THEIR DAY,
Is there any longer any defensible doubt that Obama was elected and his failures so ardently defended due to the left self-imposed white guilt? Apparently, that’s how Obama got his Hawvad Law Review editorship; they felt too guilty to give it to an un-deserving, pre-privileged white guy (possibly how Cruz got his as well, but at least he produced some works to prove his worth).
This further explains why some feel any criticism of Obama is derived of racism…. because, with them, it is… or at least imagined it is. Since I have never been convinced that I owned, beat and killed slaves, I have no such delusions and, unbound by false guilt, can clearly see Obama (and practically every member of his administration, regardless of race, gender or sexual preference) as the abject failure and incompetent fool he is, based solely upon, to paraphrase Dr. King, “the content of his accomplishments and statements”.
Rob in Katy
YOU SAID SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT,
how come them and not us, they must think those who miss the boat
yes you surely must be right of it, the BLACKS ELECTED SEEMS TO NEVER LEAVE TO GIVE ROOM TO NEW ONE, SHARPTON AND OTHER ARE FOREVER IN THE SAME MINDSET, SOME COME OUT TO YELL
AT ANY PERSON WHO SAY SOME TRUTH INVOLVING A BLACK PERSON WHO DID WRONG,
WHICH HAS NO RACIST AT ALL BUT THOSE OLD TIMERS HAVE FIGURED OUT THE RACIST GAME, THEY PLAYED IT SO OFTEN,
IT HAS GLUED IN THE MIND OF THEIR PEERS,
THEY PLAY IT, TO SEND A GUILT FEELING TO THE ONE FALSELY ACCUSE OF RACIST, BUT,
DOING SO THEY KEEP THE RACIST FLAME ALIVE, AND A YOUNG BLACK IN ACADEMIC LEARNING , IF HE HAS AN OBSTACLE AND IS CALLED ON BY THE TEACHER,
THAT YOUNG PERSON FIRST THOUGHT IS, HE IS RACIST, AND THAT BLOCK HIM FROM ACHIEVING, HE HEARD IT SO MANY TIME
AT THAT MOMENT HE FEEL LOW AND LET DOWN, missing quite a bit OF ADVANCE IN STUDY, because he and other blacks have been pound by the sharpton group that the white are racist and you better keep us elected because we protect you, while they protect themselves not their voters,
but the new commers are getting to figured them out, and the new elected black conservatives do not have that mindset, like the one who succeede to learn and become very popular explaining the science of the COSMOS, HE SAID HE HAD CLEARED HIMSELF OF THE RACIST GAME THE GOVERNMENT PLAY ON the white PEOPLE, HE LEARN AND WORK ON IT WITH A FRESH MIND FREE OF THAT LOW HABIT
FROM THE OLD TIMER WANTING TO KEEP THE BLACKS WITH THE BLACKS ONLY,
WE SEE IT MANY TIMES, AND AT SOME POINT THEY CAN TURN THE PEOPLE IN SUCH RAGE,
MANY GATHERED AND HAVE KILLED AND HURT OTHER ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE WHITE, AN OLD VETERAN BEATED LEFT FOR DEAD
we just have to Look at their game played kick and trip white people in public places,
many where hurt but the one doing it had fun, do you read the thoughts of those whites, after they went back home? do not be surprise of negatives without hesitation, BUT THEY DIDN’T
RAMPAGE TO KILL THE YOUNG BLACKS,
WHO GOT AWAY WITH IT,
the BLACKS ARE BEING INCITED by those old timers forever elected, WHO DID NOT EVOLVED, BECAUSE THEIR RACIST CARDS WORK WITH THEIR PEOPLE , THEY THEMSELVES DIVIDED, LOOK HOW ANGRY THEY ARE WITH THE BLACK CONSERVATIVES SUPER SMART, NO NEED TO SAY MORE,
All the more reason to never, ever elect anyone who graduated from an “Ivy League” school (institution) to any national office. Lawyers should never be elected either.
@ilovebeeswarzone: bees, so true. The racist game works both ways. The blacks are played so that they will continue to support the Dimocrats and the Dimocrats are played to keep the blacks thinking the conservatives are racist so they have to band together. As you say, some blacks have now learned that they are being played.
I was quite surprised and it was relieving to hear a Austin female liberal, with whom I associate and respect, share a report of the white guilt indoctrination to which her kin is being exposed in CA and further indicate it was absurd indoctrination. This is a woman who inferred negative judgment on Republicans in the same spoken paragraph. So “all is not lost.”
white guilt = cultural Marxism on steroids
Whistleblower: UCLA Discriminating Against White Students By Illegally Giving Preferential Treatment To Minority Applicants
The Collective’s bizarre obsession with race gets sicker by the day.
Kraken
hi,
THEY DON’T DESERVE TO HAVE ANY STUDENTS AT ALL,
they follow toward the cliff,
why should they get the studenr”s money to do that corruption,