{"id":14691,"date":"2018-06-07T00:12:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T07:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=14691"},"modified":"2018-06-07T00:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T07:12:57","slug":"quick-takes-the-preponderance-of-pallor-europe-too-white-college-too-white-superficiality-too-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/06\/07\/quick-takes-the-preponderance-of-pallor-europe-too-white-college-too-white-superficiality-too-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; The Preponderance of Pallor: Europe Too White; College Too White; Superficiality Too White"},"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: White people&#8230; White people everywhere!!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\/pkae0-TgrRU?ecver=1\" 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;Apparently not only does European culture not depend on White people, but White people are actually contrary to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofeurope.com\/2018\/02\/eu-hungarian-town-cant-be-european-capital-of-culture-because-there-are-too-many-happy-white-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Culture<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The EU jury of the European Capital of Culture contest (EKF 2023), said that one of the participating towns is &#8216;too white and there are not enough migrants&#8217; [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;With only seven semi-finalists left, the Hungarian town of Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r made a promotional film for the jury. The film shows the town\u2019s most beautiful places, a happy couple and some kids playing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But the EU\u2019s jury rejected the submission of Sz\u00e9kesfeh\u00e9rv\u00e1r\u2019s debut film: &#8216;There are too many happy white people and crosses, and not enough migrants,&#8217; the jury said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The promotional film in question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cCBUouBU_Oo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\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;Apparently any large enough group of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2018\/02\/hamilton-college-students-protest-too-many-white-upper-class-able-bodied-males-having-lunch-at-campus-pub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white, upper class, able-bodied males<\/a>&#8221; is #Problematic&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This week, between 11:30 AM and 1 PM, regular patrons of The Little Pub (a time commonly known as &#8216;Pub Lunch&#8217;) might have noticed an unfamiliar dynamic. Such a divergence from the Pub\u2019s expected lunchtime normalcy is the result of a Facebook group called &#8216;PUB POWER&#8217;; the group has set a goal of disrupting the typical demographic makeup of the space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;According to the group\u2019s description, PUB POWER aims to &#8216;have as many women possible attend pub lunch in order to dismantle [the] hegemony and reclaim the space as open to all.&#8217; They add, &#8216;Historically, white, upper class, able-bodied males have dominated and claimed many \u2018public spaces\u2019 as their own. Here, at Hamilton College, the Little Pub Lunch serves as a prime example of a space occupied solely by men.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Although the group acknowledges that any detrimental actions or tendencies of the white, upper class, and able-bodied men who tend to frequent Pub Lunch may be &#8216;unintentional&#8217;, the group asserts that their dominance over the space &#8216;makes women, alongside other LGBTQIA+ and POC members of our community feel inferior, unwelcomed, and outnumbered.'&#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;Everything, &#8216;twould seem for some, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=10880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whiteness<\/a> is #Problematic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;Witnessing Whiteness&#8217; is an educational workshop series focusing on issues such as &#8216;dominant white culture&#8217; and &#8216;culture and appropriation,&#8217; and UCCS is offering students three graduate academic credits in exchange for implementing the series in their home communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The curricula for the class is open source, and as such, all course materials are available online. One worksheet, for instance, encourages students to convene attendees for a group discussion centered around the \u201ctransformation of white culture overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;According to Shelly Tochluk, the program&#8217;s creator, characteristics of white culture include &#8216;individualism, consumerism, meritocracy as an ideal, superficiality, competition, ambition, productivity, [and] extreme exploitation of labor\/resources for profit.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh those White people&#8230;<\/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=\"The Preponderance of Pallor: Europe Too White; College Too White; Superficiality Too White\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: White people... 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