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user-inactivated · 3204 days ago · link · · parent · post: That's Not Funny- Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.
The loss of white privilege is to be a shared felicitation ... not a lament. But it will be painful and ugly. I think that for everyone to rise up some must first recede. And maybe some of those that never thought that their world would be restricted by their ancestry have learned perspective. Surprise.But afterward, two white students from an Iowa college shook their heads: no. He was “perpetuating stereotypes,” one of them said, firmly. “We’re a very forward-thinking school,” she told me. “That thing about the ‘sassy black friend’? That wouldn’t work for us.”