If only all these pesky Caucasians would go to university they’d learn their place
Racism normalised! Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane, humanrights.gov.au, yesterday:
We are seeing, too, further signs of racism becoming normalised within mainstream media and public discourse … intolerance has been emboldened.
Racial segregation on campus normalised? Richard Ferguson, The Australian, yesterday:
A performance created by third-year Victorian College of the Arts student Isabella Mason (staged on a University of Melbourne campus) … segregates (the audience) based on the colour of their skin. “… there are simply two different shows for two different audiences,” said Mason, 20. “The (white) audience in the foyer are invited to go through a process of … cleansing” … People of colour are invited to enter the show first, while white people must wait outside where four dancers, who introduce themselves by their preferred pronouns, talk to them about white privilege.
White privilege rant by university professor normalised? Lia Eustachewich in New York Post, June 4:
A Rutgers University (history) professor … railed against … “little Caucasian a—holes” in a … Facebook rant … (writing) “OK, officially, I now hate white people. I am a white people (sic), for God’s sake, but can we keep them — us — us out of my neighborhood?” … (He wrote a nearby) restaurant was “overrun with little Caucasian a—holes who know their parents will approve of anything they do. Slide around the floor, you little s—thead, sing loudly, you unlikely moron. Do what you want, nobody here is gonna restrict your right to be white … I hereby resign from my race. F—k these people. Yeah, I know, it’s about access to my dinner. F—k you, too … Please God, remand them to the suburbs, where they and their parents can colonize every restaurant, all the while pretending that the idiotic indulgence of their privilege signifies cosmopolitan — you know, as in sophisticated ‘European’ — commitments.”
Definition of white privilege, Squidbuddies, Urban Dictionary, December 24, 2014:
A thing that has to be checked repeatedly when interacting with someone of another race, gender, kin, etc. (example) I met this transgender crypto brown and black male hyena-lion who insulted me for not checking my white privilege when I asked what time it was, I’ll be going to jail for 10 years now but next time I’ll be sure to check my white privilege more frequently.
Tal Fortgang, Time, May 2, 2014:
There is a phrase that floats around college campuses … “Check your privilege” … handed down by my moral superiors, (it) descends recklessly, like an Obama-sanctioned drone, and aims laser-like at my pinkish-peach complexion, my maleness, … I do not accuse those who “check” me … of overt racism, although the phrase … assumes that simply because I belong to a certain ethnic group I should be judged collectively with it … to find out what they are saying, I decided to take their advice. I … checked the origins of my privileged existence … my grandfather and his brother … as teenagers (fled) when the Nazis invaded Poland … they reached a Displaced Persons camp in Siberia … (and did) years of hard labour in the bitter cold until World War II ended … my grandmother … (spent) weeks … on a death march … (they) came to America with no money and no English … it was my parents’ privilege and now my own that there is such a thing as an American dream … even for a penniless Jewish immigrant … I have checked my privilege. And I apologize for nothing.