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I could not imagine ever giving back one dollar to this school. This place has lost its mind.
Is there such thing as a happy Social Justice Warrior? If you live in a world where every force in the world is working against you and a majority of people are oppressors, is it possible to be happy?
It's terrible that we are so liberal but the culture here does little to communicate with those who are not liberal. I agree with most views on campus as a liberal, but when a single slightly non-conforming opinion comes out, the community quickly silences it, demonizes the person and embarrasses them. Yes, most of the time they have misinformed views, but if we like making them feel silly so much without calmly helping them learn or even accepting their views if there is not a clear fact-based "right" opinion, how will political division ever become less volatile?
The "#stopwhitenoise" project is legitimately the stupidest bullshit I have ever heard of, but since mac is 'pc' to a fault of reverse discrimination, this is apparently okay? Keep marginalizing yourselves, creating false problems, and attempting to demonize white people. Go ahead with the affirmative action.
I want to fight against traditional masculinity and gender roles as much as the next girl, but at the same time I'm literally only attracted to guys with big muscles. Is it too much to ask for a guy that can talk with me about tearing down the patriarchy but also sweep me of my feet and carry me to the bed?
Whoever came up with the "Stop White Noise" bs really didn't think things through. There is nothing productive about silencing peers for their skin tone. What is this going to accomplish? If you really want to make a change you'd focus on educating and including white people in discussions about how to respect and their POC peers in spaces where they may be silenced.
I'm a POC and I don't support these movements or the people who start them. I haven't met one POC who does either. If anything, this action is counterproductive to unity and solidarity because who in the hell wants to support a people who silence them? I understand the sentiment, but really, not necessary. Instead of jumping the gun, think about the ramifications of these "actions" and stop feeding your sjw ego. If you're trying to make a name for yourself as an agent of change you're doing it all wrong. If anything, you're letting everyone know you only care about yourself and the image you build instead of actually making a difference.
Hello.
I am a poc, and I hate the negativity surrounding whiteness in this school. Yes, I am very very VERY aware of white privilege. Sure white people have a lot of problems, but this privilege excuses them from having problems purely derived from whiteness. White women don't struggle with a culture of fetishisation and racial disrespect. White immigrants are much less likely to be deported or mistreated. Heck, the criminal system favours white defendants. White women are what society and media's image of "beauty" is. White people are more likely to get better jobs, even in countries that aren't predominantly white! Textbooks and classes actually speak about white people and don't leave them behind in the footnotes.
As an average white person, these don't seem like perks exactly and hence it is difficult to recognise this as a privilege. But this privilege is nothing to be ashamed of, it's something that needs to be recognised and used for good, something that makes a white person an ally.
Macalester is a college that has a community that does it's best at reminding white people of this privilege. And if it doesn't, it's our duty to. Our duty to work together as a team, not exclude white people from our friend groups because they're white. Not to make fun of white people and say "omg white people this, white people that", but to help them see better and clearly. I think we take it a bit too far, even the post recently that talked about how annoying it is when white people call it naan bread, I'm a poc and I called it naan bread for a really long time. What made me say it right? Someone telling me what I was doing wrong. Is this not what's important - for us to work collaboratively to make ourselves better, TOGETHER? Especially when we live in a community with white people so willing to listen? Why are you mad about white people all the time? Why? In the process of checking these white people so much, I think we, poc's have forgotten to check ourselves.
As an Asian heterosexual male on campus, I feel I have absolutely no chance at a relationship. Unfortunately I am neither white nor an athlete nor a hyper-sexualized POC.