Swordsmyth
09-03-2017, 03:05 PM
From the “no good deed (or foolish one) goes unpunished” file of Progressive madness:
African-American and Latino students at the University of Florida are refusing to share a proposed new state of the art facility because doing so would “erase and marginalize their black and brown bodies and their cultures.” So, we are to believe that foregrounding these identities in posh new digs is to erase them. Even though they demanded them in the first place, in order to be validated. Of course, differentiation between black and brown skin as it relates to “bodies” is utterly meaningless, and completely marginalizes black and brown people with altogether different skin tones, or who share both ancestries. But to raise such issues is to impose white supremacist logic and intellectual consistency on problems that by design make no sense and serve only to further the political fantasies of the “privileged oppressed” on college campuses.
The university recently bull-dozed two houses on campus (http://www.wcjb.com/content/news/UF-students-and-Gainesville-City-Commissioners-discuss-minority-issues-on-campus-441590193.html) to make room for this preening monument to the gilded calf of identity politics, and it turns out that blacks and Latinos refuse to wallow in their inclusive exclusion in solidarity (by receiving a shiny new building and countless thousands to run it, no less). In the proposed new facility, the African American and Latino factions would have their own dedicated wings, and would only share a walkway and an elevator. But apparently segregated elevators for black and brown bodies are the progressive response to the liberal white guilt (and largesse) that is providing these sites of “inclusion.”
More at: http://freedomproject.com/i-am-right/329-black-and-brown-students-refuse-to-co-exist
So, who are the real racists?
African-American and Latino students at the University of Florida are refusing to share a proposed new state of the art facility because doing so would “erase and marginalize their black and brown bodies and their cultures.” So, we are to believe that foregrounding these identities in posh new digs is to erase them. Even though they demanded them in the first place, in order to be validated. Of course, differentiation between black and brown skin as it relates to “bodies” is utterly meaningless, and completely marginalizes black and brown people with altogether different skin tones, or who share both ancestries. But to raise such issues is to impose white supremacist logic and intellectual consistency on problems that by design make no sense and serve only to further the political fantasies of the “privileged oppressed” on college campuses.
The university recently bull-dozed two houses on campus (http://www.wcjb.com/content/news/UF-students-and-Gainesville-City-Commissioners-discuss-minority-issues-on-campus-441590193.html) to make room for this preening monument to the gilded calf of identity politics, and it turns out that blacks and Latinos refuse to wallow in their inclusive exclusion in solidarity (by receiving a shiny new building and countless thousands to run it, no less). In the proposed new facility, the African American and Latino factions would have their own dedicated wings, and would only share a walkway and an elevator. But apparently segregated elevators for black and brown bodies are the progressive response to the liberal white guilt (and largesse) that is providing these sites of “inclusion.”
More at: http://freedomproject.com/i-am-right/329-black-and-brown-students-refuse-to-co-exist
So, who are the real racists?