Appalachian State University Publicly Shames ‘Privileged’ Students
This sounds like something straight out of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book.
Unreal.
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reports.
App State dorm bulletin board shames ‘privileged’ students
A bulletin board hung by a resident assistant in a primarily freshmen and sophomore dorm shames those who are have white, male, Christian, able-bodied, heterosexual, or cisgendered “privilege.”
“Why can’t I hold all this male privilege,” reads one meme on the bulletin board hanging at Appalachian State University.
“‘I don’t see color’ which also means I deny having white privilege,” reads another flier on the red board adorned with colorful puzzle pieces.
The fliers are products of the “Check Your Privilege” campaign started by three University of San Francisco professors, as previously reported by Campus Reform.
“If you can expect time off from work to celebrate your religious holidays, you have Christian privilege,” one flier reads.
According to Laurel Littler, a junior commercial photography major at Appalachian State, the bulletin board was approved and put up by the hall’s RA.
“A residential hall is the last place to push an agenda,” Littler told Campus Reform. “When I come home, I want to feel accepted, not outcasted for something I can’t help. I can’t help that I’m Caucasian. Will they be happy if I change the color of my skin so I don’t have my ‘white privilege’ anymore? I want to be comfortable in my own skin. You can’t preach equality if you aren’t willing to let a people group feel accepted as they are.”
Littler said that since college is supposed to be a “marketplace of ideas,” college students should not only have the freedom to state opinions but also the freedom to challenge the ideas of others.
“A person has to use common sense and sensitivity to a person’s background when addressing issues,” she said.
App State dorm bulletin board shames 'privileged' students (Campus Reform)
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It is simple. Remove the RA and take away her stipend. They she will be a little less privileged.
Let me guess: the resident advisor and her circle at ASU are white, come from modestly wealthy families, have lived lives of privilege (to date), and clearly consider themselves to be above the rest of the white trash.
As Glenn Reynolds notes, the “check your privilege” campaign is all about elite whites ensuring that they are superior to non-elite whites.
the “privlege” campaign is powered by the pity campaign. self pity
ASU/Boone is the last outpost of the crazy hippies out in the forest for the whole UNC system. They’re even more tie-dyed than Chapel Hill.
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Can’t wait till more hordes of 3rd-world, Spanish-speaking illegal invaders arrive so that I can be classified as a minority in my own country.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
the memes on that bulletin board are from 4chan and are meant to mock the ideas presented.