Discussion for article #232429
The unexamined life is not worth living. Or something.
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Was that a live job interview?
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There’s still hope for the student. She’s young.
Too bad this video will be out there to remind her of her views when she matures.
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Clark is also a writer for Campus Reform, a student news website backed by the Leadership Institute, which organizes conservative groups on campus.
Ahhh… the Leadership Institute…
Other notable graduates are:
Mitch McConnell
Grover Norquist
Karl Rove
James O’Keefe
Many current , former and wantabee Republicans like " I am not a Witch "
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This video could be used as an example of the problem of “Whiteness” in that very class.
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“Quite frankly, as an ASU student myself, I’m disappointed that my school would offer a course like this. Clearly we have a lot of work to go as a society in terms of racial tension, but having a class that suggests an entire race is the problem is inappropriate, wrong, and quite frankly, counter productive.”
From the course description it doesn’t sound like the class is blaming an entire race for all racial tension. It sounds more like it’s pointing out how not discussing racial tension, and the problems that come with it in society is a privilege that some people can’t enjoy, and how to fix that. I could be reading too much into it though.
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I expect another part of it is how the definition of “white” has changed over time. It’s worth reminding most people in this generation that Jews, Greeks, and Italians weren’t generally considered “white” until after the 1960’s.
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No, it’s just that unlike Hasselbeck, you comprehend what you read.
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It amuses me that the student and Hasselbeck are interchangeable but I guess that also explains why neither of them get it.
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If it was not for whining about stupid shit, conservatives would never be heard from again.
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"Hasselback then asked Clark whether ASU would dare offer a course
called “The Problem With Blackness” or “The Problem With Being Female.”
“I don’t think that would fly at the university,” Clark responded.
Because blacks and women are socially and economically oppressed.
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A worthy course to be offered–and, actually, a continuation of things done over quite a long period of time, by many advocates and academics. ASU should be commended. Most of those who actually need the information and insights of the course will, quite naturally, do what this young woman has done.
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Co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck spoke with Lauren Clark, an ASU student who was disturbed by a course in the school’s English department titled “Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness.”
Nice to see that Fox brought in a spokesperson from ASU to defend their curriculum…oh wait.
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Just to be clear, these two women are criticizing a course based entirely on its title, one-sentence description and reading list because they presume it’s about superficial judgments based on skin color? And who says conservatives don’t get irony?
Also, Fox has a graphic for “Trouble With Schools?” Good grief.
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Does anyone else feel the title of the course was chosen to get a rise out of right wingers? I mean if the title had been “Race Theory”, it would have been just as accurate and it wouldn’t have gotten so much attention.
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Every college seems to have a certain number of severely maladjusted young conservative activists. And they always seem to have a really serious personality disorder of some kind along with a perceptual bias that distorts their grasp on reality in really unnerving ways. But they were just major, but insignificant, pains in the ass who primarily spent their time asking questions in class whose sole purpose was to try to “prove” that the professor was indoctrinating the weak-minded fools in the class in the wicked ways of liberalism. At least, they were just pains in the ass back before they had their own TV channel to credulously report their silly nonsense as “news.”
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Not really. Arizona tends to be a pretty conservative place in general (which explains ASU’s rep as a “party college”). My guess is that the title was chosen as to be seen as provocative. Maybe kind of an eye grabber to get students to sign up for it.
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Perhaps Ms. Clark would have preferred the less wieldy title: “The problem with black teenagers and 12 year olds being shot dead for no apparent reason by those acting under color of authority while white teenagers and 12 year olds are not shot dead under similar circumstances”.
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Well, yeah…duh! This 1 course at 1 college “proves” how all colleges are nothing more than liberal indoctrination centers that will produce their own army of prius driving, chai tea latte drinking, tree huggers that will destroy the very fabric of our once great nation! Wake up sheeple!
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