{"id":14471,"date":"2018-03-08T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14471"},"modified":"2018-03-08T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:37:26","slug":"quick-takes-cultural-appropriation-de-appropriating-teaching-de-appropriating-college-de-appropriating-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/03\/08\/quick-takes-cultural-appropriation-de-appropriating-teaching-de-appropriating-college-de-appropriating-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; Cultural Appropriation: De-appropriating Teaching; De-appropriating College; De-appropriating Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: De-Appropriate All The Things!!1!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little bit of mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KuMlv7hmrFg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The fact that there are so many more female teachers than males is considered a &#8220;nothingburger&#8221;, yet the fact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/39048\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that White people teach<\/a> at all is considered institutional racism or something&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;DiAngelo also asked groups to answer: &#8216;When is the first time you had a teacher of the same race[s] as you? How often did that happen? When did you first have a teacher of a different race than you?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For the record, I didn&#8217;t have any regular teacher who was (observably) European until I was nine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And all this came from a White professor who has become famous for hating White people.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The white professor who quit her full-time position to tour the country, leading seminars on &#8216;white fragility,&#8217; asked for whites in the room to come forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;About 15 people walked to the stage and each one read a quote from the projection screen that addressed their \u201cinternalized superiority,\u201d \u201cracial privilege\u201d and other deficiencies as whites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;When they finished reading, the professor told the audience to \u201cnot clap\u201d for the white people as they returned to their seats. She announced there would be no question-and-answer session.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And just to make sure that Whitey doesn&#8217;t Bogart that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/2017\/11\/17\/oxford-college-introduces-compulsory-classeson-cultural-appropriation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">morally pure non-Whiteness<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;An Oxford college has become the first to introduce compulsory classes on \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d for students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Magdalen College will run the mandatory workshops for freshers starting from next year, where they will be taught about racism, institutional racism, cultural appropriation and implicit bias.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The move follows a series of rows about racism and cultural appropriation at the university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The worst crime of all?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/38626\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appropriating yourself<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Put this one in your peace pipe and smoke it \u2014 a Native American faculty member at the University of New Mexico has been condemned for wearing a headdress on Halloween.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;She reportedly wore it to a pumpkin carving contest at the school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;Just because you&#8217;re Native American, does not give you a free pass to rock a headdress or a tomahawk,&#8217; Joaquina Castillo, co-president of the KIVA Club, a Native American group on campus, told KRQE news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Left is antithetical to ALL civilizations and people that came before their great enwokening. They only champion &#8220;native&#8221; and &#8220;indigenous&#8221; because it threatens their current target.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pro-tip: The Left hates you just as much as it hates them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cultural Appropriation: De-appropriating Teaching; De-appropriating College; De-appropriating Yourself\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: De-Appropriate All The Things!!1!\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: De-Appropriate All The Things!!1! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little bit of mood music: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/03\/08\/quick-takes-cultural-appropriation-de-appropriating-teaching-de-appropriating-college-de-appropriating-yourself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[25,24,48],"class_list":["post-14471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-higher-ed","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14472,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14471\/revisions\/14472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}