> There are absolutely people in this world with ideologies about the superiority of white people. And there are people with ideologies that paint White peopl

> There are absolutely people in this world with ideologies about the superiority of white people. And there are people with ideologies that paint White people as all being fundamentally evil, with some kind of tainted inheritance. This is what Whiteness Studies is actually doing; far different than any African-American Studies course would do. Interesting that it has to be so drastically different, so critical, so deconstructive when White people are involved. > I would gently point out that conflating criticism of whiteness with criticism of all white people because of etymological similarity is literally a strawman. I see through your motte-and-bailey game. All White people are automatically guilty of Whiteness; that's the whole point of these courses, to take apart the accomplishments of historical White figures, to demonize White people for being the beneficiaries of the hard work and sacrifice of their collective ancestors, and ultimately to deny White people to opportunity to take part in a collective identity at all. You then back out and pretend to only criticize abstract Whiteness; but of course, this doesn't matter, because no criticism of any other group is going to be allowed to use the same methodologies. This is propaganda; and there is now some momentum towards calling it out for what it is and rejecting it, including recent executive orders that restrict federal agencies from compelling employees to take this kind of training. My hope is that it can be purged entirely so we can eventually get back on track towards a society where people can get along instead of being artificially divided by an elite that seeks to employ divide-and-conquer strategies to prevent the working class from ever being able to make any progress.