[From article]
Campus activist Mark Gianfalla found the class to be ridiculous, “The problem I see with this course is that it is teaching a flawed and inherently racist sociological theory as fact,” Gianfalla told The Daily Caller. “This isn’t education, it’s indoctrination. Where is the required counterpoint course on affirmative action? It does not exist because that idea does not fit with the social and racial agenda of the professor,” he continued.
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Gianfalla then focused on the professor, Iris Outlaw, “This is a faculty member who helped organize protests against the College Republicans’ hosting of Ann Coulter on campus last year under the premise that Ann was a perpetrator of racial ‘hate speech.’ Nothing is stopping her, however, from spewing the idea of white privilege and consequently white guilt in a University sanctioned course.”
http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/05/this-isnt-education-its-indoctrination-notre-dame-offers-seminar-on-white-privilege/
‘This Isn’t Education, It’s Indoctrination’: Notre Dame Offers Seminar On White Privilege
12:05 AM 12/05/2014
BEN SMITH
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[From article]
The University of Notre Dame will offer a seminar on white privilege next semester.
Students enrolled in the course will also be provided with transportation and lodging to the White Privilege Conference in Kentucky over spring break.
This is the first time the seminar is offered for credit at Notre Dame
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“The goal for each participant is personal transformation: to leave the class and conference more aware of injustices and be better equipped with tools to disrupt personal, institutional and worldwide systems of oppression,” the course description reads. “The nature of living in contemporary culture indicates that people consciously and unconsciously simultaneously participate in and are affected by systems of oppression; however, since these behaviors can be learned, they can also be unlearned.”
The application, obtained by Campus Reform, asked students to define white privilege, privilege in general, and identify their own privileges.
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“After researching this conference, anyone would be able to tell that it is far from academic [...] This isn’t multicultural; it’s an opportunity to bias students towards the shaming of one culture and ethnicity.”
“This isn’t education, it’s indoctrination,” Gianfalla, a senior finance major, said.
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“We’re going to be looking at the historical context of privilege and oppression. We’re also going to be looking at social, political, and economic systems through the lens of white supremacy and how that’s played out.”
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Outlaw also said that while the seminar name includes white privilege—due to the name of the conference—the class will take a look at a variety of other privileges such as gender and disabilities.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6121&app=cro
Notre Dame to participate in White Privilege Conference
Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Reporter
@K_Schallhorn
December 5, 2014 at 12:33 PM EDT
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