better things to do, I think...
Mar. 31st, 2003 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kodalaiI no longer feel guilt about not attending most of the lectures and speakers that pass through my school, because I have come to realize that most of them are nuts.
I now believe that many of them are wandering and giving speeches at schools such as this one mainly because they can't gain a following or solid base of operations elsewhere, and it would probably be best for society if they don't. Some of them advocate strange, very strange governmental, societal, or educational theories. Some of them are just heaven-made matches with the general atmosphere of this school, i.e, moderate-to-extreme leftism.
This latest speaker, (or group of speakers, whatever) advertises that they're going to teach us about eurocentrism and racism. (Which is, may I add, pretty much the common theme, if not the central theme, to pretty much every course this school offers. But wait, that's not all. They're going to teach us that we're not enough racially aware, and that the activist community spends too much time focusing on other issues and not enough time focusing on the injustice of whites to blacks, and because of that, we're all racist.
I have come to realize that there are some people who will never forgive me for being white, and I'm not going to make myself miserable trying. I am not a bigot. I am not racist. And I am not going to waste my study time going to a lecture session where people will tell me what a bad girl I am.
I think the best thing my school has done for me (so far) is to teach me to be automatically distrustful of anyone who tries to guilt me into doing something. If the best reason you can come up with for doing this or that thing is "your ancestors wronged my ancestors," then I probably have better things to be doing.
I now believe that many of them are wandering and giving speeches at schools such as this one mainly because they can't gain a following or solid base of operations elsewhere, and it would probably be best for society if they don't. Some of them advocate strange, very strange governmental, societal, or educational theories. Some of them are just heaven-made matches with the general atmosphere of this school, i.e, moderate-to-extreme leftism.
This latest speaker, (or group of speakers, whatever) advertises that they're going to teach us about eurocentrism and racism. (Which is, may I add, pretty much the common theme, if not the central theme, to pretty much every course this school offers. But wait, that's not all. They're going to teach us that we're not enough racially aware, and that the activist community spends too much time focusing on other issues and not enough time focusing on the injustice of whites to blacks, and because of that, we're all racist.
I have come to realize that there are some people who will never forgive me for being white, and I'm not going to make myself miserable trying. I am not a bigot. I am not racist. And I am not going to waste my study time going to a lecture session where people will tell me what a bad girl I am.
I think the best thing my school has done for me (so far) is to teach me to be automatically distrustful of anyone who tries to guilt me into doing something. If the best reason you can come up with for doing this or that thing is "your ancestors wronged my ancestors," then I probably have better things to be doing.
