First of all, is “handicapped” even a thing anymore?
Aren’t we saying “disabled,” or “challenged” now?
All Blacks are obviously not physically “handicapped,” so the University of Princeton must be referring to a mental type of disability here.
I wonder how most Black people actually feel about this designation?
I know some Black people could care less, as long they get something for free out of it, but I believe most self-respecting Blacks would take issue at this.
Hannah Grossman of Fox News reports that, “A Princeton anti-capitalist class is teaching Black people should be considered handicapped due to systemic racism.”
“The curriculum claimed Black Lives Matter activism was a ‘disability justice’ movement.”
“A Princeton University class curriculum slated for the upcoming fall semester claims that Black people can be considered ‘disabled’ due to the purported systemic racism they face, according to information in a course description.”
I know absolutely nothing about this “professor,” or the creator(s) of this course, but I am 100% willing to wager they are not Black themselves.
“A class taught by a professor who specializes in women, gender and sexuality studies, Satyel Larson, featured a book called ‘Permission to Maim.’ The book argues that Black people, along with other groups the author, Jasbir Puar, deemed to be oppressed by systemic racism, can be considered ‘disabled’ since the supposed structures in place limit their agency in society.”
Bingo. Looks like I was right again.
“‘Black Lives Matter and the struggle to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine are not only movements “allied” with disability rights, nor are they only distinct disability justice issues. Rather, I am motivated to think of these fierce organizing practices collectively as a disability justice movement itself, as a movement that is demanding an end to so many conditions of precaritization that debilitate many populations,’ the book stated.”
Say what?
Anyone for a little ranch dressing with that word salad?
“‘These movements may not represent the most appealing or desired versions of disability pride. But they are movements anchored, in fact, in the lived experiences of debilitation, implicitly contesting the right to maim, and imagining multiple futures where bodily capacities and debilities are embraced rather than weaponized,’ it continued.”
Although the professor and the author were not the ones actually living the experiences they are teaching and writing about.
Please proceed.
“The course aims to ‘decolonize’ students’ modalities of thinking. The description focused on concepts steeped in critical race theory and webbed in ‘capitalism’ as on the same plane as the mistreatment, discrimination and prejudice against gay people, also called ‘homophobia.’”
Oh no! We don’t want to be capitalist racist homophobes!
That’s the democrat trifecta of being politically incorrect!
The white supremacist part just goes without saying, of course.
“‘Re-orienting healing as a decolonizing process enables students to re-politicize personal trauma as it intersects with global legacies of violence, war, racism, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, orientalism, homophobia, ableism, capitalism, and extractivism,’ the course description said.”
All of which are served-up to students from the liberal biased academic point of view.
“This description refers to a term called ‘intersectionality’ which holds that an individual can be oppressed by numerous groups simultaneously.”
Really?
You don’t say.
“‘The course participates in a new project to help illuminate how the humanities itself can offer new paths to understanding trauma and healing,’ it continued.”
Brilliant. Who else would, or could?
“Princeton and Larson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
Hmmm, that’s odd.
“Satyel Larson is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Larson’s research specialties included, ‘the intersections of law, science, women, gender and sexuality; reproduction, health and medicine; Islam and secularism; colonialism, postcolonialism and globality.”
And she’s teaching a self-described “anti-capitalist” class?
Does she have any kind of economic credentials to warrant this?
Well, she can at least add race baiting to her resume now!
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