{"id":18265,"date":"2021-07-22T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2021-07-22T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:45:06","slug":"quick-takes-academia-on-white-people-original-sin-of-whiteness-privileged-ways-of-knowing-spirit-murderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/07\/22\/quick-takes-academia-on-white-people-original-sin-of-whiteness-privileged-ways-of-knowing-spirit-murderers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Academia On White People: Original Sin Of Whiteness; Privileged Ways Of Knowing; Spirit Murderers"},"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: (Not quite) Kinderheim 511.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msTB5r8nUHU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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;A Catholic university has declared a <em>new<\/em> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=15337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original sin<\/a>\u201d in the form of\u2026 the existence of White people.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn an hour-long panel at Sacred Heart University, the term &#8220;white privilege was mentioned more than forty times and discussed from \u201csystemic\u201d historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring part of the Catholic university\u2019s \u2018White Privilege is the Problem: Wrestling with the Legacy of America\u2019s \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d\u2019\u201d panel, seven panelists shared what white privilege is, how white privilege &#8220;perpetuates racism and racial injustice,&#8221; and what can be changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018&#8230;.White privilege is systemic and made up of all those institutional advantages that white people enjoy over people of color solely because white people are white,\u2019 said Michelle Loris, an associate dean and Catholic studies chair at SHU and moderated of the discussion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018In short, white privilege assumes that white lives matter more than Black lives\u2019 said the associate dean.\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;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Race is both a \u201csocial construct\u201d and also at the same time an almost spiritual and innate \u201cway of knowing\u201d. One guess which \u201csocial construct\u2019s\u201d innate \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/white-teachers-stop-privileging-western-ways-of-knowing-when-teaching-black-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">way of knowing<\/a>\u201d is evil.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor white teachers to effectively engage students in learning Black history, we must question everything about the way we teach and learn in schools. Positivism\u2014a dominant view in Western thought that confines what is \u201cknowable\u201d to what can be proven through the scientific method\u2014is not the only framework with which we can make sense of history. Teachers should think critically about teaching materials and textbooks that both privilege Eurocentric content knowledge and Western ways of knowing more broadly.\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;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not only are White people, and only White people, genocidal maniacs of the more temporal and physical sense, \u2018twould seem they are also using the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/seattle-school-district-accuses-u-s-of-spirit-murder-against-black-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">souls<\/a> of \u201cBIPOC\u201d to fuel their evil.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSeattle Public Schools held a teacher-training session where it asserted that the U.S. education system is responsible for committing \u2018spirit murder\u2019 against black students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe school district&#8217;s critical race theory training, according to documents released Friday by City Journal contributing editor Christopher Rufo, instructed white teachers to recognize their \u2018considerable power and privilege.\u2019 A slide on \u2018building community\u2019 listed bullet points for teachers to discuss, including \u2018spirit murder\u2019\u2014a term defined as the murder of \u2018the souls of black children every day through systemic, institutionalized, anti-black, state-sanctioned violence.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOther slides instructed white teachers to \u2018bankrupt [their] privilege,\u2019 acknowledge their \u2018thieved inheritance,\u2019 and \u2018commit to the journey\u2019 of anti-whiteness even if their \u2018lizard brain\u2019 makes them fearful of having a conversation about racism\u2014\u2018or any other kind of \u2018-ism.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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=\"Academia On White People: Original Sin Of Whiteness; 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