• Re: Chicago teacher's 'Problem of Whiteness' course gets postponed afte

    From Applepees@21:1/5 to Gronk on Thu Feb 22 12:09:10 2024
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    In article <t2p7bs$3pfvj$6@news.freedyn.de>
    Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    She looks like a wigger whore anyway.


    A woke class at the University of Chicago called “The Problem of
    Whiteness” has been put on hold after the instructor received
    death threats.

    Rebecca Journey got the threats and postponed the class until
    next spring, according to reports.

    Journey says the criticism that the class would lead to “anti-
    white hatred” was “disingenuous,” she told the Chicago Sun Times.

    “The class approaches whiteness as a problem in the
    philosophical sense of an open question … (with) whiteness as an
    object of critical inquiry.”

    Putting off the course was to give the university time to come
    up with a safety plan, she said.

    Journey has been accused of “anti-white” racism and subjected to
    racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic attacks in her inbox and
    on a Twitter thread about the class, she said.

    A student named Daniel Schmidt posted about the class on
    Twitter, along with Journey’s email address.

    “I want to stress that these attacks are the direct consequence
    of this student’s targeted cyberbullying campaign,” Journey said.

    “This was a malicious attack not just on me as a teacher but on
    anti-racist pedagogy writ large.”

    On Schmidt’s Twitter profile he describes himself as someone
    “exposing insanity at an elite university” and a “Right-wing
    college activist”.

    Schmidt said he didn’t mean for the criticism and attacks to
    happen, according to the Sun Times.

    <https://torontosun.com/news/weird/chicago-teachers-problem-of- whiteness-course-gets-postponed-after-death-threats>

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