‘Students of Color’ Group at Marquette Demands ‘White Privilege’ Classes
If you think the point of college is social justice activism, you’re wasting time and money.
David Hookstead of the College Fix reports.
Marquette ‘students of color’ say they’re oppressed, demand ‘white privilege’ classes
Students allege they’re victims of ‘discriminatory violence’ from school’s historic seal and its lack of diversity classes
A lack of mandated diversity courses at Marquette University is an example of “discriminatory violence” so oppressive that four “students of color” blocked a busy campus intersection earlier this week in protest, prompting their arrest.
And that’s not the only example of the oppression alleged by the so-called “Ad Hoc Coalition of and for Students of Color” at Marquette, a 134-year-old Catholic Jesuit college in Milwaukee that costs undergrads $37,000 annually to attend.
The group of students is also upset over the university’s longtime seal, which includes an image of its namesake Rev. Jacques Marquette, the French-Jesuit missionary whose 17th-century travels helped map Milwaukee and the Midwest.
The seal includes a standing Marquette pointing in a canoe with an American Indian sitting and holding an oar, an image that appears to have been inspired by an old painting of the explorer. But the student coalition has decried the seal as a “biased and impartial narrative” and have demanded the image be cropped or altered.
Because, as far as the “Ad Hoc Coalition of and for Students of Color” is concerned, “discriminatory violence” is defined as “physical harassment, language, exclusion or imagery that targets an individual or group based upon their race, gender, sex, class, national or cultural identities,” the campus newspaper The Marquette Wire reports.
With that, the seal must fall under what the group contends is the “discriminatory violence-imagery” category.
They also want the university to set up a “bias incident report system” and a “training on how to end discriminatory violence in the classroom and in the campus community” for all employees, scholars and students, according to their demand list.
Not stopping there, their demands also include “the expansion of the core curriculum to include 2-3 more diversity and inclusion required courses that unambiguously address the realities of white privilege and oppression at Marquette, in Milwaukee, and in our nation.”
Marquette ‘students of color’ say they’re oppressed, demand ‘white privilege’ classes (The College Fix)
Comments
Marquette continues to be a place intelligent students should avoid.
They SHOULD include classes in White Privilege….just as soon as the first Black student pays full tuition.
How tragic. In a sane world all students, including these, would look at the seal and be intrigued to learn about French exploration and about the usually amicable relations between French explorers and traders and the native indians. Full disclosure, I am descended generations from a French trader who married a native in Wisconsin.
Thirty seven thousand dollars before adding two additional required classes. Wonder why there’s a student debt crisis?
As slightly active alumni, we know that Marquette is populated with very kind and courteous young people and the faculty must be largely caring, though more and more militantly left wing. How can these little malcontents even find oppression in such a human environment? Do you go to university to learn more about the civilization you live in and how to contribute to it or to find a way to be a victim and thus affirm yourself?
Oh goody. Now violence = language or inclusion. Goodbye, 1st Amendment.
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Um, how can the narrative be both biased and impartial?
Oops, how did the quote get lost? Here’s what I was commenting on:
‘But the student coalition has decried the seal as a “biased and impartial narrative”’