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Determine your level of white privilege. Is that something that is deterministic?

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CURRICULUM WHITE PRIVILEGE
Students offered extra credit to determine their level of ‘white privilege’
DREW VAN VOORHIS - SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Students in a sociology class at San Diego State University can earn extra credit if they take a quiz to determine their level of “white privilege.”

Professor Dae Elliott offered the option to her sociology class students, a “White Privilege Checklist” that includes 20 questions that aim to illustrate that “racial privilege is one form of privilege.”

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Some of the questions include:
I can choose blemish cover or bandages in flesh color and have them more or less match my skin.

I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.

I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing, or body odor will be taken as a reflection on my race.

I can enroll in a class at college and be sure that the majority of my professors will be of my race.
At the end of the quiz, students were also made aware of other forms of privilege, such as “gender, sexual orientation, class, and religion,” as well as asked to define any more types they can think of.

Students were instructed by Professor Elliott to add up their scores, with a higher score meaning they had a high level of privilege and a lower score meaning they had a lower level of privilege.

To earn the extra credit, students were told to also answer a series of questions given to them by the professor. They are: “Were you surprised by your score, or did it confirm what you already knew? Why is privilege normally invisible and what does it feel like to make it visible? Do you think this exercise is different for white students than for students of color? For black students than for Asian, Indian, Latino/a students, or other students of color?”

Asked about the offer, Professor Elliott told The College Fix via email that it’s a legitimate way to help students see things from multiple perspectives.

“Only through processes that allow us to share intersubjectively, weigh all of our perspectives according to amount of shareable empirical evidence can we approximate an objective understanding of our society,” she said. “It may never be perfect, in fact, I am sure we will always be improving but it is a better response if we are truly seekers of what is truth, what is reality. In a society that values fairness, our injustices that are institutionalized are often made invisible.”

The professor added that the exercise “asks my students to step out of their subjectivity, extend their understanding and begin to be a conscious part of understanding and hence gaining more power and agency to effect change.”

Not everyone agrees. Asked to weigh in, San Diego State University College Republicans President Brandon Jones said the assignment is divisive.

“This is another attempt by the Left, and Professor Elliot, to divide America,” said Jones, who is not in the class.

“The Left’s political goal is to ensure that minorities in America perpetuate that their primary problem is white racism. This only furthers the portrayal of minorities in America as victims and does nothing to help contribute to their advancement in society,” Jones said in an email to The College Fix.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36904/
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
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What a bunch of whiney losers
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"If the IRS audits my tax return"? Huh? I didn't know that race was something you filled out when you sent in your taxes. Who knew I have been doing it wrong all this time?

And I don't think a lot of these are true - maybe 50 years ago, but not today. "I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk with the 'person in charge' I will be facing a person of my race." That's certainly not true, particularly not for government agencies. In my life, I have held four jobs where I wasn't working directly for the owner of a small company. In only one of those four was the manager of our location white. I'm not saying that's typical ... but you certainly can't assume that the manager is going to be white in 2017.

And the supermarket? Good grief. Unless you're looking for something really obscure, there's a good chance you can find it. Grocery stores have an entire aisle of Asian and Mexican food. Stereotypically African American food is just what white people call Southern cuisine and is easy to find. Even if you're trying to make something really obscure, you can probably find the spices for it. Sure, they may not have a TV dinner for some Russian dish, but you can buy the spices, buy the meats, etc, and make it yourself.

Sure, there is racism and there is white privilege. But when you walk around every hour of every day looking to be offended, you will probably find a way to make it happen.
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Why are the green olives in a jar and the black olives in a can? They're sending you a message!
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BigDave wrote:"If the IRS audits my tax return"? Huh? I didn't know that race was something you filled out when you sent in your taxes. Who knew I have been doing it wrong all this time?

And I don't think a lot of these are true - maybe 50 years ago, but not today. "I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk with the 'person in charge' I will be facing a person of my race." That's certainly not true, particularly not for government agencies. In my life, I have held four jobs where I wasn't working directly for the owner of a small company. In only one of those four was the manager of our location white. I'm not saying that's typical ... but you certainly can't assume that the manager is going to be white in 2017.

And the supermarket? Good grief. Unless you're looking for something really obscure, there's a good chance you can find it. Grocery stores have an entire aisle of Asian and Mexican food. Stereotypically African American food is just what white people call Southern cuisine and is easy to find. Even if you're trying to make something really obscure, you can probably find the spices for it. Sure, they may not have a TV dinner for some Russian dish, but you can buy the spices, buy the meats, etc, and make it yourself.

Sure, there is racism and there is white privilege. But when you walk around every hour of every day looking to be offended, you will probably find a way to make it happen.
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BigDave wrote:"If the IRS audits my tax return"? Huh? I didn't know that race was something you filled out when you sent in your taxes. Who knew I have been doing it wrong all this time?
Probably a question you get asked when you do your taxes at a place where they install stereos.
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BigDave wrote:"If the IRS audits my tax return"? Huh? I didn't know that race was something you filled out when you sent in your taxes. Who knew I have been doing it wrong all this time?

And I don't think a lot of these are true - maybe 50 years ago, but not today. "I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk with the 'person in charge' I will be facing a person of my race." That's certainly not true, particularly not for government agencies. In my life, I have held four jobs where I wasn't working directly for the owner of a small company. In only one of those four was the manager of our location white. I'm not saying that's typical ... but you certainly can't assume that the manager is going to be white in 2017.

And the supermarket? Good grief. Unless you're looking for something really obscure, there's a good chance you can find it. Grocery stores have an entire aisle of Asian and Mexican food. Stereotypically African American food is just what white people call Southern cuisine and is easy to find. Even if you're trying to make something really obscure, you can probably find the spices for it. Sure, they may not have a TV dinner for some Russian dish, but you can buy the spices, buy the meats, etc, and make it yourself.

Sure, there is racism and there is white privilege. But when you walk around every hour of every day looking to be offended, you will probably find a way to make it happen.
Whether white, black, Asian or Hispanic, if you want special or specific ethnic food, you go to an ethnic grocery.

Whites and black have their own hair salons that specialize in their hair types, so that isn't an issue.

People generally socialize with people of their own race so that isn't hard to do.

When you race is less than 20% of the population, it will be harder to walk into a classroom or meet with a manager of your race. That's just statistics.

On and on and on
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