I'm a minority and I despise this "trauma cuz all I see is white" mentality. Kids are just too sensitive these days. They'll get slaughtered in the real world.
Oh noes! She was forced to study Western Civilization in college!?!?!! The horror! Well that certainly explains all the academic problems she's been having.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/20/c...-by-reading-about-white-people/#ixzz3s6BI3plW
I'm a minority and I despise this "trauma cuz all I see is white" mentality. Kids are just too sensitive these days. They'll get slaughtered in the real world.
As if racism ever ended.
I agree.She makes a decent point about diversity. However, this whole Trauma nonsense is just going to turn people off anything she says.
As an example, Aya cited her art class, where she complained that Congolese artwork was repeatedly characterized as primitive. She wanted to object to that characterization but, in the Spectators words, was tired of already having worked that day to address so many other instances of racism and discrimination.
Roosevelt Montás, Columbias associate dean for the Core Curriculum, didnt exactly offer a spirited defense, instead saying Aya was showing the troubling racism that may lurk inside the Core.
You cannot grow up in a society without assimilating racist views, he said, according to the Spectator. Part of what is exciting about this conversation is that its issuing accountability for us to look within ourselves and try to understand the way that racism shapes how we see the world and our institutions.
[D]oes segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does. ...
"Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system." ...
We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
How was she ever accepted to Columbia is beyond me; I mean, they should be able to see the batshit insaness and stupidity from her interview.
Sad, at an institution like Columbia. Really sad.
The universities themselves are to blame since so many of the top applicants in the nation get turned away to secondary tier institutions because they'd rather be diverse and take people with 1000 SAT scores who happen to have the right racial background, even if they happen to be the newly immigrated who never had to suffer any historical injustice to start with. I personally know many Indian and East Asian kids in my high school class who scored 1560-1600 on the SAT, had a ton of extracurricular activities, clubs, and sports and couldn't get into Columbia.
Oh noes! She was forced to study Western Civilization in college!?!?!! The horror! Well that certainly explains all the academic problems she's been having.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/20/c...-by-reading-about-white-people/#ixzz3s6BI3plW
Kids are just too sensitive these days. They'll get slaughtered in the real world.
Some special snowflake was offended because of a free yoga class
http://www.ottawasun.com/2015/11/20/free-ottawa-yoga-class-scrapped-over-cultural-issues
'Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, ending a free on-campus yoga class over fears the teachings could be seen as a form of "cultural appropriation."'
The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concernsinsulting, childish concernsthat Muslim students would be offended.
Has it truly come to this? Is feelings-protection now such an overriding goal that completely unreasonable fears win out, even if they have no basis in reality? Can we not even have a single moment to recognize legitimate victims of terrorism without worrying that someone will feel marginalized on campus?
Personally I don't think she has a decent point about diversity.
She just has to take six Western Civ Core classes. Beyond that, she can load up on whatever the hell she wants and I'll bet money there's enough "diversity" oriented classes to fill the rest of her schedule. Given it's taken her six years to graduate, that's only one class per year to fulfill her requirement. She has really no ground to stand on.
I expect nothing less from Columbia.