Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n
The focus this time: The Anti-White Elites Demand<\/p>\n
First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> 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;\"> One of the most privileged and elite private schools in New York, the Dalton School, now has its woke faculty making <a href=\"https:\/\/thenakeddollar.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/breaking-dalton-school-is-in-full.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woke demands for wokeness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>“Here is just a sample of the demands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 The hiring of twelve (!) full time diversity officers<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 An additional full time employee whose “entire role is to support Black students who come forward with complaints.”<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Hiring of multiple psychologists with “specialization on the psychological issues affecting ethnic minority populations.”<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Pay off student debt of incoming black faculty<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Re-route 50% of all donations to NYC public schools<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Elimination of AP courses if black students don’t score as high as white<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Required courses on “Black liberation”<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Reduced tuition for black students whose photographs appear in school promotional materials<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Public “anti-racism” statements required from all employees<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Mandatory “Community and Diversity Days” to be held “throughout the year”<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Required anti-bias training to be conducted every year for all staff and parent volunteers<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Mandatory minority representation in (otherwise elected) student leadership roles<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Mandatory diversity plot lines in school plays<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Overhaul of entire curriculum to reflect diversity narratives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe demands for additional staffers alone would add millions of dollars to Dalton’s annual budget. Siphoning off 50% of donations would dry up funding. Eliminating AP classes (referred to as “leveled courses”) would destroy college admissions. It’s not an exaggeration to say these demands, if implemented, would destroy Dalton altogether. According to insiders, much damage has already been done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> The <a href=\"https:\/\/thenakeddollar.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/teacher-demands-at-dalton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full demands<\/a> can be read here.<\/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--> \u201cWhiteness\u201d, <em>i.e.<\/em> whatever part of Western Civilization they are railing against at the time, must be purged from society and our minds by \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=15345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unlearning<\/a>\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBlack faculty at Columbia University are making demands for \u2018white supremacy\u2019 to be recognized and \u2018dismantled within this institution.\u2019 In the demands, they outline eleven steps to undergo the process of \u2018unlearning whiteness.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAccording to a statement from \u2018the Black Faculty\u2019 of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), we are in a \u201cseachange in attitudes towards [sic] race relations\u201d and there is a \u201ccall for real action to dismantle racist systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTo do this GSAPP must \u2018unlearn and challenge whiteness and white supremacy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cStudents and faculty should \u2018understand how it operates, its historical legacy, and how it is perpetuated in the school,\u2019 the faculty state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhite supremacy, they say, needs \u2018interrogating\u2019 to understand \u2018anti-Black racism.\u2019 They then list eleven steps directed at the school for the \u2018unlearning process.\u2019\u201d<\/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;\"> And those purveyors of \u201cWhiteness\u201d <em>must<\/em> be held accountable, after all\u2026And those purveyors of \u201cWhiteness\u201d <em>must<\/em> be <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=15538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held accountable<\/a>, after all\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLoyola University in Maryland formed what it’s calling a \u2018White Accountability Group.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIts website said the community would \u2018like to offer white and white-passing folks the opportunity to put those resources into action by engaging in deep, meaningful conversations and exercises on anti-racism.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn a promotional video released before their first information session, which is scheduled for Friday, September 4, leaders at Loyola shared why they feel this group is necessary and have chosen to join.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOne man in the video noted that the space is for faculty, staff, and administrators in the 70 percent white Jesuit Catholic university.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018For me, it\u2019s all about the fact that I know I\u2019m racist. I grew up in the United States of America,\u2019 said one woman. \u2018It\u2019s part of who I am.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> From their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loyola.edu\/department\/equity-inclusion\/events-activities\/white-accountability-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn her role as CEIO of Loyola University Maryland, Dr. Cheryl Moore-Thomas convened a group of faculty and staff to design and execute a White Accountability group on campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">“It is clear that as a community we are in deep thought and conversation about the injustices that continue to plague our country, our communities, and our campus. Many resources have been offered as we all work to dismantle oppression in our own lives and institutions; we would like to offer white and white-passing folks the opportunity to put those resources into action by engaging in deep, meaningful conversations and exercises on anti-racism. This will be a brave space to reflect, discuss, learn, grow, and most importantly, keep ourselves and our campus accountable as we continue to work towards dismantling white supremacy in all the spaces that it lives, even (and especially) when that space is inside of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"> 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=\"Anti-Racist Education: Woke Demands; White Accountability Groups; Unlearning Whiteness\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: The Anti-White Elites Demand\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. 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