April 17, 2016



Expecting Students To Show Up On Time Is White Supremacy

Blake Neff writes at The Daily Caller of a session at the 17th Annual White Privilege Conference -- yes, there is such a thing, and it's going on through today, in Philly.

One speaker is education consultant and former prof of multi-culti education at Minnesota's St. Cloud State (where she taught future teachers), Dr. Heather Hackman. She "argued at the White Privilege Conference (WPC) in Philadelphia that great teachers must also be liberal activists, and described in detail her goal for destroying the 'white supremacist' nature of modern education."

Neff:

In Hackman's telling, virtually everything associated with being a good student in modern education is actually just a tool of racist white supremacy. "The racial narrative of White tends to be like this: Rugged individual, honest, hard-working, disciplined, rigorous, successful," she said. "And so then, the narrative of U.S. public education: Individual assessments, competition, outcome over process (I care more about your grades than how you're doing), 'discipline' where we care more about your attendance and making sure you're not tardy than we care about your relationships ... proper English must be spoken (which is just assimilation into standard U.S. dialect), hierarchical power structure, and heavy goal orientation." While the traits listed may simply be regarded as positive traits for success in the modern world, Hackman described them as specific cultural traits chosen and emphasized to favor whites to the detriment of non-white groups, who are forced to assimilate white traits such as good discipline and goal orientation or else be left behind.

Is there anything more racist than this woman's thinking?

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