University of Minnesota on Whiteness Pandemic

[Valletta]

"If you were born or raised in the United States, you have grown up in the Whiteness Pandemic, and you can play a role in halting and reversing this pandemic, especially if you are White because of the power and privilege you hold in this racialized society. If you were socialized into the culture of Whiteness during childhood it is not your fault, but as an adult it is now your responsibility to self-reflect, re-educate yourself, and act."

Whiteness Pandemic

innovation.umn.edu

This may be helpful in understanding the Minnesota political culture.

 

[caffeinated hermit]

Skin color is not a disease. Neither is ancestry. And the language of atonement in these messages is just... nuts. Sheesh.

 

[Oompa Loompa]

It is this type of rhetoric that breeds racism.

 

[DaisyDay]

Skin color is not a disease. Neither is ancestry. And the language of atonement in these messages is just... nuts. Sheesh.

Not that I think it will make an actual difference to you, but it is not referring to skin color.

Whiteness refers to culture not biology: the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States. Naming the Whiteness Pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects of racism onto the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate racism, starting with the family system. At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism.​

This is deliberately provocative to stimulate conversation about racism.

 

[rambot]

"If you were born or raised in the United States, you have grown up in the Whiteness Pandemic, and you can play a role in halting and reversing this pandemic, especially if you are White because of the power and privilege you hold in this racialized society. If you were socialized into the culture of Whiteness during childhood it is not your fault, but as an adult it is now your responsibility to self-reflect, re-educate yourself, and act."

Whiteness Pandemic

innovation.umn.edu

This may be helpful in understanding the Minnesota political culture.

MY favourite thing is when you baselessly say the whole state is this way because of one university class.

What a crock, this post.

Not that I think it will make an actual difference to you, but it is not referring to skin color.

Whiteness refers to culture not biology: the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States. Naming the Whiteness Pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects of racism onto the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate racism, starting with the family system. At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism.​

This is deliberately provocative to stimulate conversation about racism.

There is categorically no way ANYONE who has posted would have bothered to read for understanding and context. I'd also doubt they cared about the difference.

It is this type of rhetoric that breeds racism.

It doesn't.

It breeds resentment in people who don't like talking about the impact of race.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Not that I think it will make an actual difference to you, but it is not referring to skin color.

Whiteness refers to culture not biology: the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States. Naming the Whiteness Pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects of racism onto the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate racism, starting with the family system. At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism.​

This is deliberately provocative to stimulate conversation about racism.

Colorblindness and passivity are Holy and Godly traits. They're absolutely beautiful in every way. To twist them around and say they're not Holy and Godly, is evil, IMO.

 

[Valletta]

MY favourite thing is when you baselessly say the whole state is this way because of one university class.

Of course I never said any such thing.

 

[rambot]

Of course I never said any such thing.

I can understand why you'd say that. You did make the OP [checks watch]

This may be helpful in understanding the Minnesota political culture.

 

[Valletta]

I can understand why you'd say that. You did make the OP [checks watch]

I say it because it is the truth. Obviously not everyone believes every educator or local news outlet. Overall such philosophies are poison to our community.

 

[rambot]

I say it because it is the truth. Obviously not everyone believes every educator or local news outlet. Overall such philosophies are poison to our community.

Please pick a lane. In your last post you denied even saying it.

Did you forget you posted THAT one?

 

[iluvatar5150]

MY favourite thing is when you baselessly say the whole state is this way because of one university class.

It’s not even a class. It’s a lab.

 

[Oompa Loompa]

Not that I think it will make an actual difference to you, but it is not referring to skin color.

Whiteness refers to culture not biology: the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States. Naming the Whiteness Pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects of racism onto the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate racism, starting with the family system. At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism.​

This is deliberately provocative to stimulate conversation about racism.

Want to talk about black culture?

 

[Oompa Loompa]

It doesn't.

Yes it does. Want to breed white supremacy ideology? Keep trashing white people.

 

[BPPLEE]

Not that I think it will make an actual difference to you, but it is not referring to skin color.

Whiteness refers to culture not biology: the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States. Naming the Whiteness Pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects of racism onto the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate racism, starting with the family system. At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism.​

This is deliberately provocative to stimulate conversation about racism.

What a bunch of absolute nonsense

 

[Landon Caeli]

Want to talk about black culture?

Black fragility is said to be a victimhood shield that has it's roots in black families, extending further into black communities and culture, making it a systemic flaw in terms of blame shifting, where personal accountability and responsibility can be pushed off onto some "other" group or alternate culture.

If we view the "Whiteness pandemic" as pure projection, it becomes clear where the truth actually lies.

 

[Servus]

MY favourite thing is when you baselessly say the whole state is this way because of one university class.

Please pick a lane. In your last post you denied even saying it.

Did you forget you posted THAT one?

He said the political culture of the state. It's technically a blue state. But the not the entre state is blue. Most of it is actually red.

 

[Servus]

"If you were born or raised in the United States, you have grown up in the Whiteness Pandemic, and you can play a role in halting and reversing this pandemic, especially if you are White because of the power and privilege you hold in this racialized society. If you were socialized into the culture of Whiteness during childhood it is not your fault, but as an adult it is now your responsibility to self-reflect, re-educate yourself, and act."

Whiteness Pandemic

innovation.umn.edu

This may be helpful in understanding the Minnesota political culture.

Pretty funny considering about half the population of Minnesota is Scandinavian.

 

[d taylor]

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A large portion of this country has become nothing but a crybaby.