What
does this subject have to do with Misandry? Feminism is an ideology of “social
justice.” What is the mindset of the “social justice” ideology? These two
articles will offer a hint:
John
J. Walters, “Communism Killed 94 Million in 20th Century, Feels Need to Kill
Again,” Reason, Mar. 13, 2013.
AFP,
“Top Khmer Rouge leader tells court he fought for ‘social justice’,” Daily Mail (London), Feb. 18, 2016.
***
The
greatest irony in all history:
For
Jewish Marxists (such as most of the leaders of the Frankfurt School)
“Westernism” (now called “whiteness”) explicitly does not include “Jewishness.”
Yet for most Marxism-inspired POC (“persons of color”) the concept and term
“whiteness” does indeed include “Jewishness”; in fact, due to the high
achievement (genetic IQ) of Jews, they are regarded as possessing extra
“whiteness,” and thus are despised by adherents to the social justice ideology
under the rubric of “abolishing whiteness.”
The
reality of this “stealth anti-Semitism” is a very painful reality we have to
face with courage. One might be able to characterize the endgame of this
ideological trend in the following equation: “Weissen raus.” = “Juden raus.”
***
CHRONOLOGICAL “professor watch” list:
We
are told that the following attributes of “whiteness” need to be eradicated:
- Algebraic and geometry
skills (Guttierez)
- Civility (Rudick)
- Free speech (Gillborn)
- Merit (Berichini)
- Rigor in science (Riley)
We
observe four distinct, yet sometimes overlapping, definitions of “witeness”
used by anti-“whiteness” intellectuals and activists:
1)
It is a “social construction” (without biological reality) (Fredrickson,
Caputo)
2)
It is a “system of oppression” (Allen, Ignatiev)
3)
It is biological but derives from a genetic deformity: the melanin theory
(Welsing)
4)
It is a real and genetic (DNA-based) category (Tillet, Ciccariello-Maher,
Daniels, Martinez)
1970 – Welsing, Dr. Frances Cress – Prof Psychiatry (MD,
1962, Howard U) – Practiced in Washington DC hospitals – “Frances Cress Welsing (born Frances Luella Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an
American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of
Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy), offered her
interpretation on the origins of what she described as white supremacy
culture.” “In The Isis Papers: The
Keys to the Coilors (1991) she described white people as the genetically
defective descendants of albino mutants. She wrote that due to this
"defective" mutation, they may have been forcibly expelled from
Africa, among other possibilities. Racism, in the views of Welsing, is a
conspiracy "to ensure white genetic survival". [Wikipedia]
1975 – Allen, Theodore William "Ted"
(1919–2005) – best known for his pioneering writings since the
1960s on "white skin privilege" and the "invention" of the
white race, particularly his seminal Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial
Slavery: The Invention of the White Race, published as a pamphlet in 1975,
and published the next year in expanded form. He stressed that the white race
was invented as "a ruling class social control formation."; By 1997,
historian George M. Fredrickson of Stanford University wrote that "the
proposition that race is 'a social and cultural construction,' has become an
academic cliché," but Allen was not satisfied with that proposition and he
emphasized that “the ‘white race’ must be understood, not simply as a social
construct (rather than an genetic phenomenon), but as a ruling class social
control formation.”
1991
– Roedinger, David A. – Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies
and History – U of Kansas, Lawrence – Roediger's book, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the
Making of the American Working Class, was published in 1991. Along with
Alexander Saxton's Rise and Fall of the White Republic (1990) and Toni Morrison's Playing
in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992), this work is
often cited as the starting point of contemporary whiteness studies.
Roedinger’s 1994 book: Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on
Race, Class and Politics
(Verso: London).
Apr.
1997 – Ignatiev, Noel – Prof. of History – Massachusetts College of Art –
abolition of whiteness; joined Communist Party USA in 1958; believes that race
(extended familial relation) has no basis in genetic transmission but is
limited to epidemal hue and results from cultural creation [cultural
creationism]. “The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To Abolish It,” Noel Ignatiev, Talk given at the conference “The
Making and Unmaking of Whiteness,” Berkeley, California, April 11-13, 1997.;
“critical race theory.”; “Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep
bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the
social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed—not
"deconstructed" but destroyed.’”
Sep.
2, 2002 – Singley, Bernestine – Attorney, author, lecturer; (received degree
from Harvard Law School) – Her article: “Abolish the White Race,” Harvard Magazine, Sep-Oct 2002; “excerpt
from When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal
Histories, edited by Bernestine Singley, appeared in 2002 as part of Harvard
Magazine’s coverage of recent books by Harvard affiliates.”
Oct.
2005 – Kambon, Dr. Kamau (Leroy Jefferson) – Affiliated faculty, taught
Africana Studies 241, Spring 2005 – North Carolina State University –Speaking
at panel at Howard University Law School on Oct. 14, 2005: “They [white people] have retina scans, they
have what they call racial profiling, DNA banks, and they’re monitoring our
people to try to prevent the one person from coming up with the one idea. And
the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that, in
my estimation, is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate
white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.”
2009 – Gillborn, David – Professor of Critical Race Studies,
Director of Research, Director of the Centre for Research in Race &
Education (CRRE) and Editor-in-Chief, Race Ethnicity and Education – U of
Birmingham, UK –Article: Risk-Free Racism: Whiteness and So-Called “Free
Speech” Wake Forest Law Review , 44 pp. 535-555.; “This paper is notable for several
reasons. First, it appears in a US law journal - showing that my work on
critical race theory is respected not only within education internationally,
but also in the discipline where CRT began (the law). Second, the paper arises
from an invitational symposium at the Wake Forest School of Law, which is
consistently ranked among the leading US law schools.”
Jun 2013 – Tillet, Salamishah – Assoc Prof of
English and Africana Studies – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia –
“Salamishah Tillet, an associate professor of English and Africana studies at
the University of Pennsylvania, boasted that members of Congress and state
legislators who are passing bills to place restrictions on abortion are acting
out of racial fears that they’re becoming a minority demographic ...”
Dec. 4, 2014 – Rickford, Russell – Asst Prof of
History – Cornell University, Ithaca, NY – “An assistant professor
at Cornell University (CU) told white students they must commit race
suicide and reject the inherent privilege of their skin color to move past the
events in Ferguson. Russell Rickford, an assistant professor specializing in black
radical tradition and black political culture after WWII, discussed the
events…”
Feb.
2015 – Bebout, Lee – Prof of English – Arizona State U – Course: “U.S. Race
Theory & the Problem of Whiteness.”; “The syllabus described Critical
Whiteness Studies as a field “concerned with dismantling white supremacy in
part by understanding how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced.”
“Initially, Bebout said he had intended to call the course ‘Disrupting
Whiteness.’”
Feb.
2015 – Poe, Robert – Faculty Assoc teaching Justice Studies, Welfare, and
Immigration – Arizona State U – “Robert Poe, a justice studies
doctoral student and faculty associate who said he wanted to respond to
criticism of Lee Bebout’s course “U.S. Race Theory & the
Problem of Whiteness" led the teach-in, formally called ‘The
Problem of Whiteness 101.’" Feb. 2015: “I advocate violence against
racists when they mobilize politically.” [By “racists” Mr. Poe seems to mean
non-Marxists.]
Mar.
2015 – Gundy, Saida – Prof of Sociology and African-American Studies – Boston U
–Tweets (Mar. 10, 2015): “why is white america so reluctant to identify white
college males as a problem population?”; “every MLK week i commit myself to not
spending a dime in white-owned businesses. and every year i find it nearly
impossible.”
Jun.
2015 – Hurston, Zandria – Prof of
Sociology – U of Memphis, Tn.; now teaching at Rhodes College, Memphis,
Tn. – Tweet: “Whiteness is most
certainly and inevitably terror.” (Jun. 26, 2015)
Jul. 2015
– John Caputo – Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus, Religion and Humanities,
Religion – Syracuse University – “A philosophy and religion professor at
Syracuse University gave an interview to The New York
Times Thursday [7-2-15] in which he critiqued the notion of pure reason as
simply being a “white male Euro-Christian construction.” Prof. John
Caputo was being interviewed by fellow philosophy professor George Yancy
for the 13th installment of an interview series Yancy conducts with philosophers
regarding racial topics.”
Oct. 2015 – Mustafa, Bahar – Student Union Welfare and Diversity
Officer – Goldsmiths, University of London
– Tweets: “Omg … kill them all. What’s
wrong with white people?” / “#killallwhitemen still.”
May
2016 – Baker, Carol J., MD – Prof of Pediatrics And of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
– Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, Tx. –Panel discussion, National Menengitis Assoc., Atlanta,
Ga.: “We’re talking about the minority [of vaccine refusers], and strategies
against the minority,” said Baker. “So I have the solution: Every study
published in the last five years, you look at vaccine refusers, I’m not talking
about people we can talk them into coming to terms, but refusers. Let’s just
get rid of all the whites in the United States, because Houston is the most
diverse city in the entire United States.”; “(Oct. 19, 2009) - Carol J. Baker,
M.D., the executive director of Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Awareness
and Research, has been appointed to serve as Chair of the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)”
Jul.
2016 – Sajnani, Damon – Asst Prof of African Cultural Studies – U of Wisconsin,
Madison –class: “The Problem of Whiteness,” in African Cultural Studies Department;
“Critical Whiteness Studies aims to understand how whiteness is socially
constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.”; “a
self-described ‘international radical’ professor.”; Tweet (Jul. 7, 2016) on
news story “Chief: Ten Officers Shot in Dallas, 3 Dead” (CNN): “Is
the uprising finally starting? Is this style of protest gonna go viral?”; Class (Dec. 2017): “The Problem of Whiteness: A Lyrical Lecture in 3 Parts”.
Nov.
2016 – Allred, Kevin – Adjunct Prof of Women’s And Gender
Studies – Rutgers U, New Jersey – “A Rutgers University professor best
known for his “Politicizing Beyonce” course was placed under a psychiatric
evaluation after he allegedly threatened to kill white people. In the wake of
the election of President-elect Donald Trump, adjunct lecturer Kevin Allred
made an array of comments on Twitter about his feelings toward white
people. Allred, who is white, has said he believes there are “NO GOOD WHITE PEOPLE,”
that white people are a “problem,” and that Trump being elected is “ALL WHITE
PEOPLE’S FAULT”“
Jul.
2016 – Jay, Gregory – Prof. of English – U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – “Abolition
of Whiteness” course.
Dec.
2016 – Ciccariello-Maher, George – Assoc Prof of Politics and
Global Studies – Drexel U, Philadelphia, Pa. –
“All I want for Christmas is white genocide.”
Mar. 2017 – Isaacson, Mike – Adjunct Prof of Economics – John Jay
College, CUNY, New York, NY – Mar. 2017
– Tweet: “My
jobs program: Kill all white people born before 1962.” (May 18, 2017); Tweet:
“Kill the straights.” (Mar 9, 2017).
Apr.
2017 – Clanton, Eric – Adjunct Prof of Philosophy, Ethics, and
Critical Thinking – Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, Ca. – “Eric Clanton … was arrested in May [2017] for using a bike lock to
beat three people senseless during a free speech rally at Berkeley in April
this year.” [Dangerous]; “He “was charged with four counts of felony
assault with enhancements alleging that he caused great bodily injury. He also
was charged with wearing a mask during commission of a crime, a misdemeanor.”; “Antifa associated.”
May
2017 – Gaboury, Jennifer – Prof of Women and Gender Studies
Professor – Hunter College, CUNY, New York – Course: “Abolition of
Whiteness.”
Jun.
2017 – Williams, Johnny Eric – Prof of Sociology – Trinity College, Hartford,
Ct. – “On June 16, Trinity College professor Johnny Eric Williams shared, via his personal Facebook page, an
anonymous writer’s controversial essay
urging oppressed minorities to “do nothing” to help if they encountered people
“who practice bigotry” in danger. … This time, Williams’ posts were
consolidated and shared by media outlets characterizing them as endorsing “the idea that
first responders to last week’s congressional shooting should have let the
victims ‘fucking die’ because they are white” and that Rep. Scalise “should have been left to die
because he’s white.”; Tweet, June 18, 2017 at 9:27 pm: “It is past
time for the racially oppressed to do what people who believe themselves to be
‘white’ will not do, put end to the vectors of their destructive mythology of
whiteness and their white supremacy system. #LetThemFuckingDie”; Tweet, June
18, 2017 at 9:36pm: “I’m fed the fuck up with self identified ‘white’s’ daily
violence directed at immigrants. Muslim, and sexual and racially oppressed
people. The time is now to confront these inhuman assholes and end this now.”
Jul.
2017 – Curry, Timothy – Assoc. Prof of Philosophy – Texas
A&M, College Station, Tx. – “critical race theory”; Article: “When Is It OK
to Kill Whites?” quotes Curry as saying in the podcast, “In order to be equal,
in order to be liberated, some white people might have to die.”
Aug. 2017 – Jiménez, Tomás – Assoc Prof of Sociology and Comparative
Studies in Race and Ethnicity – Stanford U, Ca. – Aug. 2017 – “Stanford University is slated
to offer a class this fall called “White Identity Politics,” during which
students will “survey the field of whiteness studies” and discuss the
“possibilities of … abolishing whiteness,” according to the course
description.” [The College Fix, Aug.
2017]
Oct.
2017 – Berichini, Christina – Prof of English Education – Brooklyn College,
CUNY, New York – “meritocracy” in math classes is a “tool of
whiteness”
Oct.
2017 – Daniels, Jessie – Prof of Sociology – Hunter College, City University of
New York – According to sociology professor Jessie Daniels, the
“outright worship” of the family is a symptom of “white supremacy.”; Tweet:
“Part of what I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most
powerful forces supporting white supremacy,” “you’re forming a white family +
reproducing white children that ‘you want the best for’ – how is that helping +
not part of the problem?” (Oct. 25, 2017)
Oct.
2017 – Gutierrez, Rochelle – Assoc Prof of Curriculum and Instruction, College
of Education – U of Illinois, Champaign – “argued in a newly published book
that algebraic and geometry skills perpetuate ‘unearned privilege’ among whites.”; “’On many levels,
mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and
developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part
of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White,’ Gutierrez
argued.”; “Gutierrez worries that algebra and geometry perpetuate privilege
because ‘emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi’ give the impression
that math "was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."” (Oct 29, 2017 - Gutiérrez,
R. (2018). Political conocimiento for teaching mathematics: Why teachers need
it and how to develop it. In S. E. Kastberg, A. M. Tyminski, A. E. Lischka,
& W. B. Sanchez (Eds.)).
Dec. 2017 – Riley, Donna – Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering
Education – Purdue U, West Lafayette, In. – Riley is calling for
schools to get rid of the current ... to disciplinary standards of quality,”
rigor ultimately has become too disciplinarian in nature, to the extent that it
selectively benefits white heterosexual
males.
Dec.
2017 – Rudick, C. Kyle – Asst Prof Dept. of Communication Studies – U of
Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls – (with Kathryn B. Golsan) “argued in an academic
paper that that practising “civility” in
college classrooms can “reproduce white racial power.” expressing that particularly
“whiteness-informed civility,” allegedly “functions to assert control of space”
and “create a good white identity”. This civility can reinforce white
privilege, Rudick and Goslan argue, because “civility within higher education
is a racialized, rather than universal, norm,” according to the field of
“critical whiteness studies.” (C. Kyle Rudick & Kathryn B. Golsan, Civility and White
Institutional Presence: An Exploration of White Students' Understanding of
Race-Talk at a Traditionally White Institution,” Taylor & Francis Online, 08
Dec 2017).
Nov. 2017 –
Martinez,
Rudy – Philosophy major senior – Texas State U, San Marcos – Article: in
The University State (student newspaper), “Whiteness: Your DNA is
an abomination,” Nov. 20, 2017; Excerpt: “Whiteness will be over because
we
want it to be. And when it dies, there will be millions of cultural
zombies
aimlessly wandering across a vastly changed landscape. / Ontologically
speaking, white death will mean liberation for all. To you goodhearted
liberals,
apathetic nihilists and right-wing extremists: accept this death as the
first
step toward defining yourself as something other than the oppressor. /
Until
then, remember this: I hate you because you shouldn’t exist. You are
both the
dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other
cultures, upon
meeting you, die.”
Dec.
2017 – Golsan, Kathryn B. – Communication Instructor – Southern Illinois
University; Upper Iowa U, Fayette – (with C. Kyle Rudick) “argued in an
academic paper that that practising “civility” in
college classrooms can “reproduce white racial power.” expressing that particularly
“whiteness-informed civility,” allegedly “functions to assert control of space”
and “create a good white identity”. This civility can reinforce white
privilege, Rudick and Goslan argue, because “civility within higher education
is a racialized, rather than universal, norm,” according to the field of
“critical whiteness studies.” (C. Kyle Rudick & Kathryn B. Golsan, Civility and White
Institutional Presence: An Exploration of White Students' Understanding of
Race-Talk at a Traditionally White Institution,” Taylor & Francis Online, Dec 8, 2017).
Dec. 2017
– Gandhi, Shreena – Prof., Religious Studies Department at Michigan State U –
Jan. 2018 – Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff argued “the explosion of yoga
studios, yoga video, apps, yoga pants, and other yoga swag over the last two
decades is evidence” of the “(mis)appropriation of yoga” that “is part of
systemic racism” built on “the labor of black people and people of the global
south.” “We would argue one of the goals of white supremacy is to buffer white
people from the pain that comes from the process of exchanging cultural
grounding for the unearned power and privilege of whiteness,” they wrote.
“…this modern-day trend of cultural appropriation of yoga is a continuation of
white supremacy and colonialism, maintaining the pattern of white people consuming
the stuff of culture that is convenient and portable, while ignoring the
well-being and liberation of Indian people.” (Shreena Gandhi & Lillie
Wolff, article: “Yoga and the Roots of Cultural Appropriation” Praxis Center, Dec. 19, 2017).
Jan.
2018 – Monge, Oscar – American Indian Studies Lecturer – San
Diego State U – “It is easy to argue that ‘whiteness’ is synonymous with evil.”
Jan. 2018 – Thornhill, Ted – Assoc Prof of
Sociology – Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – “White
Racism” class.
Mar.
2018 – Cappello, Michael – Assoc. Prof. – Faculty of Education, U of Regina,
Canada – “It’s Okay to be (Against) White(ness)” speech
at Trent University.
***
ALPHABETICAL “professor watch” list:
Allen, Theodore William "Ted"
(1919–2005) – 1975 –best known for his pioneering writings since the
1960s on "white skin privilege" and the "invention" of the
white race, particularly his seminal Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial
Slavery: The Invention of the White Race, published as a pamphlet in 1975,
and published the next year in expanded form. He stressed that the white race
was invented as "a ruling class social control formation."; By 1997,
historian George M. Fredrickson of Stanford University wrote that "the
proposition that race is 'a social and cultural construction,' has become an
academic cliché," but Allen was not satisfied with that proposition and he
emphasized that “the ‘white race’ must be understood, not simply as a social
construct (rather than an genetic phenomenon), but as a ruling class social
control formation.”
Allred,
Kevin – Adjunct Prof of Women’s And Gender Studies –
Rutgers U, New Jersey – Nov. 2016 – “A Rutgers University professor best known
for his “Politicizing Beyonce” course was placed under a psychiatric
evaluation after he allegedly threatened to kill white people. In the wake of
the election of President-elect Donald Trump, adjunct lecturer Kevin Allred
made an array of comments on Twitter about his feelings toward white
people. Allred, who is white, has said he believes there are “NO GOOD WHITE
PEOPLE,” that white people are a “problem,” and that Trump being elected is “ALL WHITE
PEOPLE’S FAULT”“
Baker,
Carol J., MD – Prof of Pediatrics And of Molecular Virology and Microbiology – Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Tx. – May 2016 – Panel discussion, National Menengitis Assoc.,
Atlanta, Ga.: “We’re talking about the minority [of vaccine refusers], and
strategies against the minority,” said Baker. “So I have the solution: Every
study published in the last five years, you look at vaccine refusers, I’m not
talking about people we can talk them into coming to terms, but refusers. Let’s
just get rid of all the whites in the United States, because Houston is the
most diverse city in the entire United States.”; “(Oct. 19, 2009) - Carol J.
Baker, M.D., the executive director of Texas Children's Center for Vaccine
Awareness and Research, has been appointed to serve as Chair of the Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)”
Bebout,
Lee – Prof of English – Arizona State U – Feb. 2015 – Course: “U.S. Race Theory
& the Problem of Whiteness.”; “The syllabus described Critical Whiteness
Studies as a field “concerned with dismantling white supremacy in part by
understanding how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced.”
“Initially, Bebout said he had intended to call the course ‘Disrupting
Whiteness.’”
Berichini,
Christina – Prof of English Education – Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York – Oct.
2017 – “meritocracy” in math classes is a “tool of whiteness”.
Cappello,
Michael – Assoc. Prof. – Faculty of Education, U of Regina, Canada – Mar. 2018
– “It’s Okay to be (Against) White(ness)” speech at Trent
University.
John
Caputo – Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus, Religion and Humanities, Religion
– Syracuse University – Jul. 2015 – “A philosophy and religion professor
at Syracuse University gave an interview to The New York
Times Thursday [7-2-15] in which he critiqued the notion of pure reason as
simply being a “white male Euro-Christian construction.” Prof. John
Caputo was being interviewed by fellow philosophy professor George Yancy
for the 13th installment of an interview series Yancy conducts with
philosophers regarding racial topics.”
Ciccariello-Maher,
George – Assoc Prof of Politics And Global Studies –
Drexel U, Philadelphia,
Pa. – Dec. 2016 – “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.”
Clanton,
Eric – Adjunct Prof of Philosophy, Ethics, and Critical Thinking
– Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, Ca. – Apr. 2017 – “Eric Clanton … was arrested in May [2017] for using a bike lock to
beat three people senseless during a free speech rally at Berkeley in April
this year.” [Dangerous]; “He “was charged with four counts of felony
assault with enhancements alleging that he caused great bodily injury. He also
was charged with wearing a mask during commission of a crime, a misdemeanor.”; “Antifa associated.”
Curry,
Timothy – Assoc. Prof of Philosophy – Texas A&M, College Station – Jul.
2017 – “critical race theory”; Article: “When Is It OK to Kill Whites?” quotes
Curry as saying in the podcast, “In order to be equal, in order to be
liberated, some white people might have to die.”
Daniels,
Jessie – Prof of Sociology – Hunter College, City University of New York – Oct.
2017 – According to sociology professor Jessie Daniels, the
“outright worship” of the family is a symptom of “white supremacy.”; Tweet:
“Part of what I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most
powerful forces supporting white supremacy,” “you’re forming a white family +
reproducing white children that ‘you want the best for’ – how is that helping +
not part of the problem?” (Oct. 25, 2017)
Gaboury, Jennifer – Prof of Women and Gender Studies Professor – Hunter College, CUNY, New York
– May 2017 – Course: “Abolition of Whiteness.”
Gandhi, Shreena – Prof., Religious Studies Department at Michigan State U – Dec. 2017 – Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff argued “the explosion of yoga
studios, yoga video, apps, yoga pants, and other yoga swag over the last two
decades is evidence” of the “(mis)appropriation of yoga” that “is part of
systemic racism” built on “the labor of black people and people of the global
south.” “We would argue one of the goals of white supremacy is to buffer white
people from the pain that comes from the process of exchanging cultural
grounding for the unearned power and privilege of whiteness,” they wrote.
“…this modern-day trend of cultural appropriation of yoga is a continuation of
white supremacy and colonialism, maintaining the pattern of white people consuming
the stuff of culture that is convenient and portable, while ignoring the
well-being and liberation of Indian people.” (Shreena Gandhi & Lillie
Wolff, article: “Yoga and the Roots of Cultural Appropriation” Praxis Center, Dec. 19, 2017).
Gillborn,
David – Professor of Critical Race Studies, Director of Research, Director of
the Centre for Research in Race & Education (CRRE) and Editor-in-Chief,
Race Ethnicity and Education – U of Birmingham, UK – 2009 – Article:
Risk-Free Racism: Whiteness and So-Called “Free Speech” Wake Forest Law Review , 44 pp. 535-555.; “This
paper is notable for several reasons. First, it appears in a US law journal -
showing that my work on critical race theory is respected not only within
education internationally, but also in the discipline where CRT began (the
law). Second, the paper arises from an invitational symposium at the Wake
Forest School of Law, which is consistently ranked among the leading US law
schools.”
Golsan,
Kathryn B. – Communication Instructor – Southern Illinois University; Upper
Iowa U, Fayette – Dec. 2017 – (with C. Kyle Rudick) “argued in an academic
paper that that practising “civility” in
college classrooms can “reproduce white racial power.” expressing that particularly
“whiteness-informed civility,” allegedly “functions to assert control of space”
and “create a good white identity”. This civility can reinforce white
privilege, Rudick and Goslan argue, because “civility within higher education
is a racialized, rather than universal, norm,” according to the field of
“critical whiteness studies.” (C. Kyle Rudick & Kathryn B. Golsan, Civility and White
Institutional Presence: An Exploration of White Students' Understanding of
Race-Talk at a Traditionally White Institution,” Taylor & Francis Online, 08
Dec 2017).
Gundy,
Saida – Prof of Sociology and African-American Studies – Boston U – Mar. 2015 –
Tweets (Mar. 10, 2015): “why is white america so reluctant to identify white
college males as a problem population?”; “every MLK week i commit myself to not
spending a dime in white-owned businesses. and every year i find it nearly
impossible.”
Gutierrez,
Rochelle – Assoc Prof of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education – U
of Illinois, Champaign – Oct. 2017 – “argued in a newly published book that
algebraic and geometry skills perpetuate ‘unearned privilege’ among whites.”; “’On many levels,
mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and
developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part
of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White,’ Gutierrez
argued.”; “Gutierrez worries that algebra and geometry perpetuate privilege
because ‘emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi’ give the impression
that math "was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."” (Oct 29, 2017 - Gutiérrez,
R. (2018). Political conocimiento for teaching mathematics: Why teachers need
it and how to develop it. In S. E. Kastberg, A. M. Tyminski, A. E. Lischka,
& W. B. Sanchez (Eds.)).
Hurston,
Zandria – Prof of Sociology – U of
Memphis, Tn.; now teaching at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tn. –
Jun. 2015 – Tweet: “Whiteness is most certainly and inevitably terror.” (Jun. 26, 2015).
Ignatiev, Noel – Prof. of History – Massachusetts College of Art –
Apr.
1997 – abolition of whiteness; joined Communist Party USA in 1958; believes that race
(extended familial relation) has no basis in genetic transmission but is
limited to epidemal hue and results from cultural creation [cultural
creationism]. “The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To Abolish It,” Noel Ignatiev, Talk given at the conference “The
Making and Unmaking of Whiteness,” Berkeley, California, April 11-13, 1997.;
“critical race theory.”; “Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep
bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the
social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed—not
"deconstructed" but destroyed.’”
Isaacson, Mike – Adjunct Prof of Economics – John Jay College, CUNY, New
York, NY – Mar. 2017 – Tweet: “My jobs program: Kill all
white people born before 1962.” (May 18, 2017); Tweet: “Kill the straights.”
(Mar 9, 2017).
Jay,
Gregory – Prof. of English – U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Jul. 2016 – “Abolition
of Whiteness” course.
Jiménez, Tomás – Assoc Prof of Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race
and Ethnicity – Stanford U, Ca. – Aug. 2017 – “Stanford University is slated
to offer a class this fall called “White Identity Politics,” during which
students will “survey the field of whiteness studies” and discuss the
“possibilities of … abolishing whiteness,” according to the course
description.” [The College Fix, Aug.
2017]
Kambon,
Dr. Kamau (Leroy Jefferson) – Affiliated faculty, taught Africana Studies 241,
Spring 2005 – North Carolina State University – Oct. 2005 – Speaking at panel
at Howard University Law School on Oct. 14, 2005: “They [white people] have retina scans, they have what they call racial
profiling, DNA banks, and they’re monitoring our people to try to prevent the
one person from coming up with the one idea. And the one idea is, how we are
going to exterminate white people because that, in my estimation, is the only
conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate white people off the face of
the planet to solve this problem.”
Martinez,
Rudy – Philosophy major senior – Texas State U, San Marcos – Nov. 2017 –
Article: in The University State (student newspaper), “Whiteness: Your DNA is
an abomination,” Nov. 20, 2017; Excerpt: “Whiteness will be over because we
want it to be. And when it dies, there will be millions of cultural zombies
aimlessly wandering across a vastly changed landscape. / Ontologically
speaking, white death will mean liberation for all. To you goodhearted liberals,
apathetic nihilists and right-wing extremists: accept this death as the first
step toward defining yourself as something other than the oppressor. / Until
then, remember this: I hate you because you shouldn’t exist. You are both the
dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon
meeting you, die.”
Monge,
Oscar – American Indian Studies Lecturer – San Diego
State U – Jan. 2018 – “It is easy to argue that ‘whiteness’ is synonymous with
evil.”
Mustafa, Bahar – Student Union Welfare and Diversity Officer –
Goldsmiths, University of London – Oct 6, 2015 – Tweets: “Omg …
kill them all. What’s wrong with white people?” / “#killallwhitemen still.”
Poe,
Robert – Faculty Assoc teaching Justice Studies, Welfare, and Immigration –
Arizona State U – Feb. 2015 – “Robert Poe, a justice studies
doctoral student and faculty associate who said he wanted to respond to
criticism of Lee Bebout’s course “U.S. Race Theory & the
Problem of Whiteness" led the teach-in, formally called ‘The
Problem of Whiteness 101.’" Feb. 2015: “I advocate violence against
racists when they mobilize politically.” [By “racists” Mr. Poe seems to mean
non-Marxists.]
Rickford, Russell – Asst Prof of History – Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY – Dec 4, 2014 – “An
assistant professor at Cornell University (CU)
told white students they must commit race suicide and reject the inherent
privilege of their skin color to move past the events in Ferguson. Russell
Rickford, an assistant professor specializing in black radical tradition and
black political culture after WWII, discussed the events…”
Riley, Donna – Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering
Education – Purdue U, West Lafayette, In. – Dec. 2017 – Riley is
calling for schools to get rid of the current ... to disciplinary standards of
quality,” rigor ultimately has become too disciplinarian in nature, to the
extent that it selectively benefits white heterosexual males.
Roedinger,
David A. – Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History –
U of Kansas, Lawrence – 1991 – Roediger's book, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the
Making of the American Working Class, was published in 1991. Along with
Alexander Saxton's Rise and Fall of the White Republic (1990) and Toni Morrison's Playing
in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992), this work is
often cited as the starting point of contemporary whiteness studies.
His 1994 book: Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Class and Politics (Verso: London).
Rudick,
C. Kyle – Asst Prof Dept. of Communication Studies – U of Northern Iowa, Cedar
Falls – Dec. 2017 – (with Kathryn B. Golsan) “argued in an academic paper that
that practising “civility” in college classrooms
can “reproduce white racial power.” expressing that particularly “whiteness-informed civility,”
allegedly “functions to assert control of space” and “create a good white
identity”. This civility can reinforce white privilege, Rudick and Goslan
argue, because “civility within higher education is a racialized, rather than
universal, norm,” according to the field of “critical whiteness studies.” (C.
Kyle Rudick & Kathryn B. Golsan, Civility and White Institutional Presence: An
Exploration of White Students' Understanding of Race-Talk at a Traditionally
White Institution,” Taylor & Francis Online, 08 Dec 2017).
Sajnani,
Damon – Asst Prof of African Cultural Studies – U of Wisconsin, Madison – Jul.
2016 – class: “The Problem of Whiteness,” in African Cultural Studies
Department; “Critical Whiteness Studies aims to understand how whiteness is
socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.”;
“a self-described ‘international radical’ professor.”; Tweet (Jul. 7, 2016) on
news story “Chief: Ten Officers Shot in Dallas, 3 Dead” (CNN): “Is
the uprising finally starting? Is this style of protest gonna go viral?”; Class (Dec. 2017): “The Problem of Whiteness: A Lyrical Lecture in 3 Parts”.
Singley,
Bernestine – Attorney, author, lecturer; (received degree from Harvard Law
School) – Sep. 2002 – Her article: “Abolish the White Race,” Harvard Magazine, Sep-Oct 2002; “excerpt
from When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their
Personal Histories, edited by Bernestine Singley, appeared in 2002 as part
of Harvard Magazine’s coverage of recent books by Harvard affiliates.”
Thornhill,
Ted – Assoc Prof of Sociology – Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – Jan. 2018 – “White Racism”
class.
Tillet,
Salamishah – Assoc Prof of English and Africana studies – University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia – Jun 19, 2013 – “Salamishah Tillet, an associate
professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania,
boasted that members of Congress and state legislators who are passing bills to
place restrictions on abortion are acting out of racial fears that they’re
becoming a minority demographic ...”
Welsing,
Dr. Frances Cress – Prof Psychiatry (MD, 1962, Howard U) – Practiced in
Washington DC hospitals – 1970 – “Frances Cress Welsing (born Frances Luella
Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American Afrocentrist
psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and
Racism (White Supremacy), offered her interpretation on the origins of what
she described as white supremacy culture.” “In The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991) she
described white people as the genetically defective descendants of albino
mutants. She wrote that due to this "defective" mutation, they may
have been forcibly expelled from Africa, among other possibilities. Racism, in
the views of Welsing, is a conspiracy "to ensure white genetic survival".
[Wikipedia]
Williams, Johnny Eric – Prof of Sociology – Trinity College, Hartford,
Ct. – Jun. 2017 – “On June 16, Trinity College professor Johnny Eric
Williams shared, via his personal Facebook page, an anonymous writer’s
controversial essay urging oppressed minorities to “do nothing” to help
if they encountered people “who practice bigotry” in danger. … This
time, Williams’ posts were consolidated and shared by media outlets
characterizing them as endorsing “the idea that first responders to last
week’s congressional shooting should have let the victims ‘fucking die’
because they are white” and that Rep. Scalise “should have been left to
die because he’s white.”; Tweet, June 18, 2017 at 9:27 pm: “It is past
time for the racially oppressed to do what people who believe themselves
to be ‘white’ will not do, put end to the vectors of their destructive
mythology of whiteness and their white supremacy system.
#LetThemFuckingDie”; Tweet, June 18, 2017 at 9:36pm: “I’m fed the fuck
up with self identified ‘white’s’ daily violence directed at immigrants.
Muslim, and sexual and racially oppressed people. The time is now to
confront these inhuman assholes and end this now.”
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The
old, now obsolete, Scapegoat was “Jewishness”; example
NAZI
PROPAGANDA
FROM:
Kurt Hilmar Eitzen, “Ten Responses to
Jewish Lackeys.” 1936
Argument
10: “Can you live with the uproar and accept responsibility for the misery that
the laws of the Third Reich bring to thousands of Jewish families?” — Counterargument:
“It is almost a miracle that absolutely nothing has happened to Jews in
Germany, but rather that only gradually the rights they stole from the Germans
in politics and culture have been restored.” (Alfred Rosenberg). But even if a
few hundred Jewish families in Germany really did have to go hungry, what is
that against the many millions of German families that the Jew murdered over
the course of centuries through wars, revolutions, and civil strife, not to
mention those ruined through usury and fraud. “In the battle between the races,
there is no truce. If you are determined finally to defend yourself, German
people, then be pitiless!” (Adolf Hitler).
Source: Kurt Hilmar Eitzen, “Zehn Knüppel wider die
Judenknechte,” Unser Wille und Weg (6) 1936, pp. 309-310.
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A
Neologism:
Cultural creationism – an anti-scientific
pseudo-religious belief in a principle of fundamentalist “cultural
construction.” This belief denies biology, genetics and evolution. The concept
is related to Russian socialist Lamarkianism. Psychologically, this belief is a
form of magical thinking, characteristic of children and superstitious persons.
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Major Neo-Marxist Leaders:
Antonio Gramsci: 1891-1937, Italy.
Gramsci
anticipated the Marxist revolution would entail “a long, multi-generational
march through the culture.” (source?)
“Socialism
is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order,
Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of
schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness
of society.” (1916)
Georg Lukacs: 1885-1971, Frankfurt School, Hungary.
“All the social forces I had
hated since my youth, and which I aimed in spirit to annihilate, now came
together to unleash the First Global War.” (Source: Michael Löwy, Georg
Lukàcs - From Romanticism to Bolshevism. 1979, NLB, p. 111.)
“I saw the revolutionary destruction of
society as the one and only solution to the cultural contradictions of the
epoch.”
(Source: Michael Löwy, Georg Lukàcs - From Romanticism to Bolshevism,
1979, NLB, p. 92-93. In "Gelebtes Denken ... aesthetics to ethics.")
“The question is: Who will free
us from the yoke of Western Civilization?” (Source: Michael Löwy, Georg
Lukàcs - From Romanticism to Bolshevism. 1979, NLB, p. 112.)
“The question is: who will free us
from the yoke of western civilization?” (Georg Lukàcs, Eloszo, 1969, pp. 13-14)
“Any political movement capable
of bringing Bolshevism to the West would have to be ‘Demonic’.” (Michael Löwy, Georg Lukàcs
- From Romanticism to Bolshevism. 1979, NLB, p. 117-118, footnotes.)
Max Horkheimer: 1895-1973, Frankfurt School, USA.
“The
root of Nazi totalitarianism [is] the family.”(source?)
Theodor Adorno: 1903-1969, Frankfurt School, Germany, USA.
Overview: Authoritarian Personality (Adorno’s 1950 book) was essentially
anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-family,
anti-nationalist, anti-patriot, anti-conservative,
anti-hereditarian, anti-ethnocentric, anti-masculine,
anti-tradition, and anti-morality; all of these are elements
Critical Theory.
Saul Alinsky: 1909-1972, USA.
“Separating
sex from morality is the best way to make kids Marxists.” (source?)
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