[ April 18, 2024 ]
George Washington University has sparked an uproar over its decision to host a seminar on so-called “Christian privilege.”
What exactly is “Christian privilege?”
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According to the administration, it’s basically the idea that our country is inherently racist, misogynist and discriminatory because of Founding Fathers’ views.
Breitbart has more:
George Washington University is hosting a diversity workshop to battle “Christian privilege” on Thursday of Easter Week at the school’s Multicultural Student Services Center.
The training session for students and faculty proposes to educate Christians — especially white ones — concerning their “unmerited perks from institutions and systems all across our country,” according to the ever-attentive folks at The College Fix.The workshop, titled “Christian Privilege: But Our Founding Fathers Were All Christian, Right?!” will be hosted by Timothy Kane, the “proudly gay” interim associate director for inclusion initiatives at George Washington University.
According to his online biography page, Kane has a master’s degree in divinity and theology and works to expand the diversity and inclusion efforts at GWU, specifically regarding the LGBT community.
The online description of the workshop suggests that Christians in the USA unfairly “experience life in an easier way than non-Christians” and therefore “have built-in advantages over non-Christians.”
Americans “celebrate Christian identities” and therefore Christians should acknowledge that they “receive unmerited perks from institutions and systems all across our country.” The seminar proposes to “reflect upon ways we can live up to our personal and national values that make room for all religious and secular identities on an equal playing field.”
Among the workshop’s learning objectives, participants should be able to “describe what is meant by privilege overall and white privilege specifically,” and should also be able to “describe the role of denial when it comes to white privilege.”
Seminar participants should also be able to “list at least three examples of Christian privilege” after the session, as well as being able to “list at least three ways to be an ally with a non-Christian person.”
Reading between the lines, it appears that a premise of the workshop is that white Christians should feel shame for the privilege that their status accords them and should make atonement for this natural advantage by reaching out to the victims of Christian privilege.
The idea of “privilege” occupies a central place at George Washington University, and other similar workshops offered through the center have addressed “heterosexual privilege,” “cisgender privilege,” “male privilege,” “white privilege,” “socio-economic privilege,” and “unconscious bias.”
One such seminar held in early February dealt with privilege in a more global way, and bore the title “Privilege: Born on Third Base and Thinking We Hit a Triple.” The seminar defined privilege based on identity as “the unmerited advantages some people receive that helps them succeed in life more than their non-privileged peers.”As Breitbart News reported last month, school administrators in British Columbia hung a series of white-shaming posters on school walls, in a similar effort to educate students on the evils of “white privilege.”
The posters carried messages encouraging students to “confront racism” and to not “be blind to the invisible system I am a part of.”
Caucasian people, the campaign suggested, even if not racists themselves, still benefit from “white privilege,” and therefore need to make reparation for the inherent injustice of race.
“I have unfairly benefited from the colour of my skin,” declared Superintendent of Schools Teresa Downs in one poster. “White privilege is not acceptable.”
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25 Comments
6 years ago
Thank you Pamela! Your are a Mensch (a gender neutral term for person)!!
6 years ago
What about Islam privilege? I n case you haven’t noticed, many Muslims are very wealthy and spend money to help less wealthy Muslims only. Motto mention soft jihads in companies where Muslims only hire and promote other Muslims.
6 years ago
Reply to
MattBracken
Matt, I always like what you have to say. By the way I just finished reading the Red Cliffs. Good read.
6 years ago
Reply to
Wayne Petersen
Thanks. I consider Red Cliffs to be my best writing and most important subject.
6 years ago
Reply to
MattBracken
Seeing is believing to anyone with a normal I.Q count which of course excludes the left
6 years ago
The real problem for atheist, muslims and a few others, is when Christians decide to exercise “Christian responsibility” the Crusades will be seen as mild in comparison.
6 years ago
The LEFT hates Christians and Jews.
It is a blessing to be a Christian.
6 years ago
Reply to
ThatsWhatRosieSays
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father. But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause’” (John 15:18-25 NKJV).
6 years ago
the odd thing is that the greatest generation bred these nutballs and their nutball offspring. i’m 63, and grew amidst the spoiled idiot brats bred by my father’s WW2 vet generation. even as a kid i used to wonder why most of my peers where idiot, lazy, dope-smoking dolts who so different than their parents. still haven’t figured it out. it’s like half of those vets came home and tried to make up for their Depression and WW2 trauma by spoiling their kids rotten
6 years ago
“The training session for students and faculty proposes to educate
Christians — especially white ones — concerning their “unmerited perks…..” Um, educating Christians about……..CHRISTIANITY. So maybe as part of the same course, muslims can educate Jews on their “unmerited perks.” Yeah. Right.
““I have unfairly benefited from the colour of my skin,” declared
Superintendent of Schools Teresa Downs in one poster. “White privilege is not acceptable.” Well, that pig can apologize all she wants for being inherently “privileged.” She obviously hates herself and who she is. If there was ever a time for Christians and Jews to protest, THIS would be it.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Why don’t she quit , and give back her white privilege hypocrite !
6 years ago
I wonder how long it’s going to take these guys to come out of the antisemitism closet and teach classes about Jewish Privilege? “Dah Jooooooooes control dah media!”
6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Stanford
Interesting question. The Left has already demonstrated their antisemitism quite openly in their support for BDS movements and support for the Palestinians. There is also their admiration of Linda Sarsour. Several of the original organizers of the Women’s March have found themselves at the center of a controversy revolving around Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan.
It was revealed that Women’s March organizer and co-president Tamika Mallory was present at a speech Farrakhan gave before the Nation of Islam in February. During the speech, Farrakhan made several anti-Semitic comments, including saying that “the powerful Jews are my enemy,”
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/7/17082030/womens-march-louis-farrakhan-tamika-mallory-anti-semitism-controversy
And yet, many Jews are Leftists! It’s as they say – the Left will eat their own.
6 years ago
This garbage by GWU is straight out of the leftist playbook. Create a phony problem like “Christian privilege”, whatever that means, and take First Amendment rights from one group to “bestow” on another. Also, this Kane character, billed as the director of inclusion initiatives, is merely trying to create an environment that makes his position necessary, an old bureaucrat’s trick.
6 years ago
It’s Ok to be Christian.
6 years ago
What will we do about the privilege that allows certain races and religions to break laws with immunity?
6 years ago
Bravo well put , and well deserved should be run out of town disgusting liberal pukes .
6 years ago
Gay Prof!… The Truth of Romans 1:21 thru 31…
6 years ago
This staff report is leaping to conclusions unwarranted by the actual quotes from the workshop, or from my understanding of the idea of “privilege” in this context. It doesn’t mean they hate Christianity. It doesn’t mean they want Christians to feel guilty for being Christian. It just means that, it’s a fact that being Christian is the “default setting” for social participation in America, the lowest “difficulty level” in the game of life, inasmuch as we are a majority-Christian culture, which means that non-Christians have to work harder to get the same results. The comments here on this article are just proving that point.
