'CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE': George Washington U. hosting event to highlight 'unmerited perks' handed to Christians
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April 3, 2018
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April 3, 2018 4:36 PM EDT
George Washington University will host a “Christian Privilege” event this week to discuss how 71% of Americans apparently have it “easier” than non-Christians.
The so-called “leadership development” seminar – “Christian Privilege: But Our Founding Fathers Were All Christian, Right?!” – asks attendees to acknowledge the “unmerited perks” Christ-loving Americans receive over those practising other ideologies or faiths.
“Let’s 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,” the workshop notice reads.
More specifically, the event looks to define “white privilege” in a way that, it would appear, pits white Christians against everyone else.
The Corcoran Gallery and School of Art on the campus of GW University. (Wikimedia Commons)
“Participants will be able to list at least three ways to be an ally with a non-Christian person,” the syllabus adds, prompting an onslaught of online backlash.
“Just when we thought the idea of ‘white privilege’ was stupid enough …” one Twitter user responded. “This is just sick!”
Another user asked: “You really think they were going to stop at ‘white privilege?’”
And, finally: “I don’t understand why we can’t just look at issues, talk about them and try to resolve them instead of throwing an entire group of people under a bus.”
The, uh, “bus” driver is Timothy Kane, the interim associate director for inclusion initiatives at George Washington. According to his bio, Kane’s duties include ensuring “all types of diversity at (George Washington) are celebrated and meant to feel included in campus culture and student life.”
Quite the celebration, isn’t it?
The “Christian Privilege” event is the most recent example of a host of universities perpetuating growing distaste for those at the top of their “privilege” hierarchy.
Last month, Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., permitted an anti-“Whiteness” event that drew ire from Canadians who viewed the talk as hateful and divisive.
An event organized at Trent University.
Days later, “privilege” posters were pinned up around Oshawa’s Ontario Institute of Technology.
‘Check your privilege’ posters at UOIT in Oshawa. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
The divisive signs highlighted a “privilege” checklist to form a “more just and inclusive world” through the guise of identity politics.
Good Lord.
http://orgsync.com/144127/events/2216852/occurrences/5292239
http://lgbt.columbian.gwu.edu/timothy-kane
‘CHRISTIAN PRIVILEGE’: George Washington U. hosting event to highlight ‘unmerited perks’ handed to Christians | Toronto Sun
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Published:
April 3, 2018
Updated:
April 3, 2018 4:36 PM EDT
George Washington University will host a “Christian Privilege” event this week to discuss how 71% of Americans apparently have it “easier” than non-Christians.
The so-called “leadership development” seminar – “Christian Privilege: But Our Founding Fathers Were All Christian, Right?!” – asks attendees to acknowledge the “unmerited perks” Christ-loving Americans receive over those practising other ideologies or faiths.
“Let’s 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,” the workshop notice reads.
More specifically, the event looks to define “white privilege” in a way that, it would appear, pits white Christians against everyone else.
The Corcoran Gallery and School of Art on the campus of GW University. (Wikimedia Commons)
“Participants will be able to list at least three ways to be an ally with a non-Christian person,” the syllabus adds, prompting an onslaught of online backlash.
“Just when we thought the idea of ‘white privilege’ was stupid enough …” one Twitter user responded. “This is just sick!”
Another user asked: “You really think they were going to stop at ‘white privilege?’”
And, finally: “I don’t understand why we can’t just look at issues, talk about them and try to resolve them instead of throwing an entire group of people under a bus.”
The, uh, “bus” driver is Timothy Kane, the interim associate director for inclusion initiatives at George Washington. According to his bio, Kane’s duties include ensuring “all types of diversity at (George Washington) are celebrated and meant to feel included in campus culture and student life.”
Quite the celebration, isn’t it?
The “Christian Privilege” event is the most recent example of a host of universities perpetuating growing distaste for those at the top of their “privilege” hierarchy.
Last month, Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., permitted an anti-“Whiteness” event that drew ire from Canadians who viewed the talk as hateful and divisive.
An event organized at Trent University.
Days later, “privilege” posters were pinned up around Oshawa’s Ontario Institute of Technology.
‘Check your privilege’ posters at UOIT in Oshawa. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
The divisive signs highlighted a “privilege” checklist to form a “more just and inclusive world” through the guise of identity politics.
Good Lord.
http://orgsync.com/144127/events/2216852/occurrences/5292239
http://lgbt.columbian.gwu.edu/timothy-kane
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