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White Privilege Conference, USA, 2014

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    #62
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bluewolf wrote: »
    YOU'RE SUCH A RACIST


    It's a cross I'll have to bear.

    A big flaming, burning cross.


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    #63
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    I mean, this sort of tripe is why people laugh at the left...

    ... and I say that as someone on the left


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    #64
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Candie wrote: »
    It's a cross I'll have to bear.

    A big flaming, burning cross.
    Oh and a homophobe too I see. :rolleyes:


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    #65
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Critical whiteness studies are fascinating.
    www.academia.edu/2380074/White_logic_White_methods_racism_and_methodology_edited_by_Tufuku_Zuberi_and_Eduardo_Bonilla-Silva


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    #66
    GalwayGuy2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭GalwayGuy2


    I hate articles like this because they give the impression these people have more influence than they actually have. Giving them publicity only helps legitimise them

    Hmmm, I'm not sure I agree with that.

    If they were some nutjob off the street I'd agree with you, but these are people who have funding and a certain amount of respect. If you ingore them then they'll just ferment.


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    #67
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    biko wrote: »
    Critical whiteness studies are fascinating.
    www.academia.edu/2380074/White_logic_White_methods_racism_and_methodology_edited_by_Tufuku_Zuberi_and_Eduardo_Bonilla-Silva

    Loving the foreword entitled "Precarious workers that made this special issue possible", in which they show their solidarity with precarious workers by calculating the monetary value of their volunteer work in putting together this journal that nobody asked them for. Poor exploited academics. :pac:


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    #68
    tritium
    Registered Users Posts: 7,441 ✭✭✭tritium


    GalwayGuy2 wrote: »
    Hmmm, I'm not sure I agree with that.

    If they were some nutjob off the street I'd agree with you, but these are people who have funding and a certain amount of respect. If you ingore them then they'll just ferment.

    Can't really disagree with this. Unfortunately there's always some well meaning quasi goverenmental grouping ready to give grant funding and listen in awe to nutters like this when it comes to social policy discussions. Generally best to try to show up the nutters for what the are...


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    #69
    EuropeanSon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭EuropeanSon


    Candie wrote: »
    The reason this person is getting notice is because the bat**** crazy PhD program exists. She isn't representative of anything but the bat**** crazy corner of academia she exists within. These 'niche' programs attract the extremes, who try to validate their existence by having these 'conferences' (probably existing of two speakers and one stand in the lobby of a Motel 6) and publishing these articles in an attempt to legitimise their discipline. No one takes them seriously but themselves and the universities who offer these programs in an attempt to corner some cash.

    You can do a Masters in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society in Liverpool Hope (arguably more valuable than Critical Whiteness Studies), a B.S. in Fermentation Sciences in Appalachian State, or a PhD in Decision Sciences in Indiana. Just because it exists doesn't mean anyone takes it seriously.

    In many departments of established universities that offer programs of study that add to the worthwhile font of human knowledge, it's a source of both hilarity and embarrassment when this kind of rubbish rises to the surface anywhere.

    Not sure about the others, but decision theory is a major part of statistics, and can be done in literally any university in the world with a statistics department. It's also very valuable.


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