DoomYoshi wrote:saxitoxin wrote:jonesthecurl wrote:Also, "Cherokee" is not the Cherokee name for the Cherokee people.
EXCUSE ME. Facts don't matter when you're dealing with WHITE NATIONALISM. Facts are a form of white supremacism.
Does white privilege give a reason for rich black people to torment poor white people?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/s ... -race.htmlLess attention was paid three months later when a law firm hired by Smith College to investigate the episode found no persuasive evidence of bias. Ms. Kanoute was determined to have eaten in a deserted dorm that had been closed for the summer; the janitor had been encouraged to notify security if he saw unauthorized people there. The officer, like all campus police, was unarmed.
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“It is safe to say race is discussed far more often than class at Smith,” said Prof. Marc Lendler, who teaches American government at the college. “It’s a feature of elite academic institutions that faculty and students don’t recognize what it means to be elite.”
The repercussions spread. Three weeks after the incident at Tyler House, Ms. Blair, the cafeteria worker, received an email from a reporter at The Boston Globe asking her to comment on why she called security on Ms. Kanoute for “eating while Black.” That puzzled her; what did she have to do with this?
The food services director called the next morning. “Jackie,” he said, “you’re on Facebook.” She found that Ms. Kanoute had posted her photograph, name and email, along with that of Mr. Patenaude, a 21-year Smith employee and janitor.
“This is the racist person,” Ms. Kanoute wrote of Ms. Blair, adding that Mr. Patenaude too was guilty. (He in fact worked an early shift that day and had already gone home at the time of the incident.) Ms. Kanoute also lashed the Smith administration. “They’re essentially enabling racist, cowardly acts.”
Ms. Blair has lupus, a disease of the immune system, and stress triggers episodes. She felt faint. “Oh my God, I didn’t do this,” she told a friend. “I exchanged a hello with that student and now I’m a racist.”
Ms. Blair was born and raised and lives in Northampton with her husband, a mechanic, and makes about $40,000 a year. Within days of being accused by Ms. Kanoute, she said, she found notes in her mailbox and taped to her car window. “RACIST” read one. People called her at home. “You should be ashamed of yourself,” a caller said. “You don’t deserve to live,” said another.
Smith College put out a short statement noting that Ms. Blair had not placed the phone call to security but did not absolve her of broader responsibility. Ms. McCartney called her and briefly apologized. That apology was not made public.
We are witnessing the self-implosion of the left, which does not care about class struggles at all anymore. That's why big tech, big pharma and big money all lined up behind Bidet. As long as they can wave their arms and force you to look at "identity issues", then you can't worry about monetary issues anymore. There is no place left for socialists on the left, which is what is driving them to the Republican party. I predict the next major party reversal in about ~20 years, although it could come earlier.
This isn’t about class, at least not from what I read in your post, the article is behind a paywall.
This is about the entitlement of this specific brat student, who is unhappy for some reason and is pulling the ‘race card’.
We don’t know if (from your post) if the student in question is “middle class” or not.
Smith College is an expensive all female private school in central/western Massachusetts. So you may assume she’s wealthy... but they do provide scholarships, so the student could be “working class” herself.
Interesting facts about Smith College...
*The author of the book”Orange is the New Black” upon which the TV show is very loosely based is a Smith Grad.
*It’s technically “central” Massachusetts, but if you live near Boston anything more than 30 mile west we call “Western Mass”. The town it’s located in is
a small college town, but the immediate surrounding area is very rural by standards in the Northeast. There are actually farms and cows and shit out there. As such the people who live out there may still be Democrats (we are in Massachusetts after all), but they are very conservative Democrats and are not the firebrand liberals you have in Boston.
*The school itself is maybe the MOST LIBERAL school in the US... it’s only #7 on this list (
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/m ... achusetts/) but that’s wrong. Northeastern is #1 and sure it’s Liberal (it’s a college in Massachusetts that’s a given)... but the uniformity of political beliefs does not compare to the uniformity of political beliefs at Smith. I think it doesn;t rank higher just because these polls are biased to size... and Smith is small.
*Smith College is a all female college. This article, and knowing their liberal views, made me curious about their policy towards Transgendered folk. I did not know what their policy was on genetic men who identify as women. Apparently they accept Transgendered females. Interesting. At lest you have to admit they are following their convictions and it’s not just words.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... cy-change/Apparently this policy change went into effect in 2015. Not ironically... even though they made this change, they are still criticized by the Extreme Left... either it “came too late” or “it’s not inclusive enough”. Smith embraces its’ identity as an All-Female college... and so their new policy accepts women and genetic men who identify as female. Some trans-people are unhappy because they don’t accept women who identify as male and non-binary genetic male peeps. I guess they should throw out the their whole identity as an All-Female school just to please 0.0001% of the population?
