We’re at the point where it almost wouldn’t be surprising if all the white people in America packed up their things and went home for good, never to again find themselves in the company of someone of a different race for fear that their whiteness might offend.
Isn’t that what the social justice Left wants?
Cornell University drew attention earlier this year when it listed a rock climbing course for “BIPOC,” one of those ridiculous liberal acronyms for “black, indigenous and people of color.” The course description said explicitly that the class “is for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color.”
Following some controversy, the course description was later amended to say that any student could enroll, but it’s not like this was some isolated incident that we can all consider a very strange attempt at promoting diversity.
Stuff like this is happening everywhere and with increasing frequency. Campus Reform on Tuesday highlighted fairly recent comments made on social media by Iowa State University Sociology Professor Rita Mookerjee. In one of them, she said she tries to “limit my interactions with yt people as much as possible” because of their “self-importance and performance [especially] during Black History Month.” (“yt” is a digital shorthand for “white.”)
White people apparently have little to offer Mookerjee and rock climbing.
A sign was erected last month near the public street where Patron Saint George Floyd was killed. It listed several instructions “for white people in particular,” which included to not “harm BIPOC” by grieving with them and to “remember you are here to support, not be supported.”
Back in 2017, students and administrators at Evergreen State College hosted a “Day of Absence” in which they asked that white people leave the campus so that minority students could have their own space to participate in workshops and lectures on “race, equality, allyship, inclusion, and privilege.”
The message over and over again is clear— white people are not wanted, but if they must be here, they will be merely tolerated.
How long before they say, “If you want segregation, you can have it”?
