The [imaginary] destructive role of whiteness

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We never actually had slavery in England or the UK, that was in the US. But they are doing their best to make it appear otherwise with the latest import...



University lecturers are being asked to attend workshops to help them understand how their ‘whiteness’ makes them unwittingly racist. Classes at UK universities are telling lecturers to acknowledge their ‘white privilege’ and examine the idea that white people enjoy advantages in life simply because of the colour of their skin.


A session at Bristol University, hosted by the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Staff Advisory Group, said it would ask lecturers to ‘examine and acknowledge the destructive role of whiteness’. Flyers for the event, called Walking On The ‘White’ Side Of The Street, said: ‘We will look at it as a day-to-day reality of white privilege that causes daily “aggressions” towards people of colour.


‘We discuss why white people accrue advantages and benefits simply due to the colour of their skin and how whiteness as a discriminatory force is as prevalent today as it was 400 years ago.’ A workshop at Anglia Ruskin University in East Anglia, entitled Privilege: The Truth We Don’t Tell Ourselves, asked participants to face ‘our privilege in an honest manner and understand exactly how we benefit from a racist system’.


Sociologist Frank Furedi warned that the concept in effect labelled every white person as racist. ‘Whiteness is the equivalent of original sin, and white racism inescapable,’ he told the Sunday Times.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5488933/Lecturers-attend-workshops-understand-white-privilege.html



The self-loathing just gets worse. Maybe one day they'll wake up, realise how unfair everything is and take their leave. We can but hope.

[mouse]

aww bless...they are so ignorant of whats what

there is no such thing as white privilege ... there is however white inheritance of what their forefathers created via invention and innovation and nobody but no body stopped any one else for accessing what was invented /innovated which infact was built on knowledges and information from even more previous peoples such as the Eyptions/Babylonions/dRAVIDIONS ETC ... be it in any millenia or century.. infact I would say this is just the latest in some made up piece of flag waving by those who have nothing real to off civilisation other than spouting off hot air in various universities of the western work....
talk about biting the hand that feeds and pays the bills
knowledge has falls and rise ... a look at the human jouney is proof enough and it really has nothing to do with skin colour....time and place and where humanity is at is far superior tio skintones ... which are nothing more than survival aids

[mouse]

perhaps a little reminder is long over due in certain quarters... not that I expect any to remind those with the imaginary chip about whites on shoulders
and I most certainly would never try to gloss over the down sides of white behaviour
what is true however is that human nature transends all skin colour and produces the likes of
Ghengis Khan whose army born out of need went on not only to subdue parts of China but cut a great swath through Asia and Europe... for the sake of any one who isn't aware.. the great Khan was from Mongolia and not exactly white

now how about the wars and imperialistic march of the Japanese in Asia both continental and island .. its ferocious attack on Chin and the Chinese ..from which Hitler got his ideas of using lesser beings for medical research .. the barbarities inflicted on the Chinese have left a resentment which is still alive to day ..

the same in Korea where women were among other taken by force to be comfort women..and of course that legacy still stings in Korea and the Phillipines etc etc through the Pascific

then we have the barbaric incursion into Tibet by the Chinese.. unproved and some of the methods used for murdering monks would give you nightmares

then theres Vietnam revolting against French colonialism via help from Comunist China .. but yes the west did interfere in that one

the Korean war via China.. and yes guilty again the west did interfere

in Africa Biafra... Congo and the killing fields between Tutsi and huto with some 4millions dead... and that's with out the tribal killings in such as Zimbabwe

the Muslim Ottoman rape of India some estimates put it as high as 40 million dead.. other claim 20...

the numbers murdered and enslaved in eastern Europe by the Ottoman Muslims

and going back to China the numbers of wars between the different kingdoms of China were identical to the numbers of wars between the kingdoms of Europe
so next time some one comes out with a load of old bollox and trys to alter history .. put them straight .... and remind them that time and place is every thing

and history is full of swings and round abouts... its thought that Asia will be king of the hill.....I wonder is China and India will be any better than Europe has been some how I doubt it .... just a change at the top and those who cannot keep up .... well a handful of rice any one