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And again some folks are objecting to choices because they don't like the choices.......
It's not forcing anyone to do anything but it is allowing for multiple celebrations.
I think it is a little silly but i don't HAVE to indulge the whole thing.
I don't care -- do u?
People are choosing to segregate themselves by color. OK, so where's the white ceremony? If I, as a white person, want to graduate only with other white people, why can't I do that? Seriously, it's either OK for every race or it's not OK for any race.
It's been my experience that universities do that. As many as 3 graduations, separating out the colleges.
I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish here, except being weird.
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Unlike traditional civil rights, which embraces incrementalism and step-by-step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.
C. Critique of Liberalism
As mentioned in chapter 1, critical race scholars are discon- tent with liberalism as a framework for addressing America’s racial problems. Many liberals believe in color blindness and neutral principles of constitutional law.
An even more extreme version of color blindness, seen in certain Supreme Court opinions today, holds that it is wrong for the law to take any note of race, even to remedy a his- torical wrong. Critical race theorists (or “crits,” as they are sometimes called) hold that color blindness will allow us to redress only extremely egregious racial harms, ones that everyone would notice and condemn. But if racism is em- bedded in our thought processes and social structures as deeply as many crits believe, then the “ordinary business” of society—the routines, practices, and institutions that we rely on to effect the world’s work—will keep minorities in sub- ordinate positions. Only aggressive, color-conscious efforts to change the way things are will do much to ameliorate misery.
Color blindness: Belief that one should treat all persons
equally, without regard to their race.
Critical Race Theory
Delgado & Stefancic
Critical Race Theory spells it out explicitly in no uncertain terms. You’re looking at it from the POV of an American liberal who still refuses to believe that there are segregationist in our society and they are gaining prominence because they’ve learned how to present their arguments to the public with a patina of compassion. The reality is they’re just totalitarian racist and apparently if you call them out as such you’re a right-wing propagandist espousing disinformation, even when you quote them word for word. These Crits use the compassion that most people have against them. They indoctrinate their students to accept a different meaning for words like racist, white supremacy, diversity, inclusion and equity/equality (they like conflating the two as if they mean the same thing) so that when a person not ideologically possessed is accused of being a white supremacist it stops them dead in their tracks. Many time the well meaning individual will then question if what they said was racist or something a white supremacist would say. The reality is Crits see white supremacy everywhere, like an invisible hand of it in every aspect and interaction in society. But those words don’t mean the same thing.
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A liberal is the kind of guy who walks out of a room when the argument turns into a fight.
Who the hell are the racists now?
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Columbia University is planning to hold six additional graduation ceremonies for students according to their race and other aspects of how they identify.
The New York City school's website details graduation ceremonies for Native, Asian, "Latinx" and Black students taking place for Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies and Barnard College at the end of April. Another dubbed "FLI Graduation" is for "first generation and/or low income community." The school also hosts a "Lavender" graduation for the "LGBTIAQ+ community."
Francis Marion University is also doing separate graduation ceremonies. They are doing it by the individual colleges...College of Business one day, College of Engineering another day, etc.
That's the way it's been done for as long as I can remember. I think that's fine.
: a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda
It is one task of the KGB [in 1982] to apply its skills of secrecy and deception to projecting the Soviet party's influence. This it does through contacts with legal Communist Parties abroad, with groups sympathetic to Soviet goals, with do-gooders of the type that Lenin once described as "useful idiots" …
Who the hell are the racists now?
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Columbia University is planning to hold six additional graduation ceremonies for students according to their race and other aspects of how they identify.
The New York City school's website details graduation ceremonies for Native, Asian, "Latinx" and Black students taking place for Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies and Barnard College at the end of April. Another dubbed "FLI Graduation" is for "first generation and/or low income community." The school also hosts a "Lavender" graduation for the "LGBTIAQ+ community."
Can't imagine MLK Jr. not rolling over in his grave.
I believe this is a more accurate statement:
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Animal Farm
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