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galen  ·  2538 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 5, 2017

Yes, all those things are bullshit.

But my question is what do they have to do with my course's description?

By deconstructing race we're exposing the defects in any racialized thinking, including "white people are genetic defects" or "white people are monsters" or whatever.





OftenBen  ·  2538 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    But my question is what do they have to do with my course's description?

By taking the course you agree with the radicals that white people are 'problematic.'

Not 'whiteness' because that's an abstract. 'Whiteness' doesn't exist. Only people do. And I can't see this class encouraging the golden rule. I CAN see it encouraging white people to feel guilty for the color of their skin, and the historical actions of powerful, wealthy oligarchs who happened to be white AT THAT PLACE/TIME IN HISTORY.

Fuck race politics. Study classism instead.

From where I'm sitting courses like this are a waste of your money/your parents money. I wish I could get back the thousands of dollars I wasted on 'Anthropology of Latin America' because I got to pay for the privilege of being told how much white people had fucked up central/south america, how if you ever eat a banana you're a facist, and it's my responsibility to buy my bathroom tile from a 10 man operation in Ecuador, because of neoliberal policies enacted before I was born, and that I would have opposed if I had the power.

galen  ·  2538 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can't really argue with this because you're making like 12 assumptions about what the course must be about, none of which seem to be grounded in what I posted. Whatever.

OftenBen  ·  2538 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know my experience. I know the experience of other cis-het-white-males in similar spheres of influence. If you get lucky, and actually get a nuanced moderate to teach these things, I'd be super happy for you.

But nuanced moderates aren't being hired by universities these days.