Saturday, March 07, 2009

PERCEPTION TRUMPS REALITY. TRANSLATION: YOU'RE RACIST REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE RACIST.

I know. Makes no sense. Well it does to The First Klingon! And maybe the reason you think the way that you do, is because you're.....RACIST! From Michelle O's just released thesis paper from Princeton:

In it she writes: "I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."

Here we see that she has mastered the authentic voice of grievance culture. She also - the thesis was written in 1985 - pre-empts the Macpherson report's ludicrous, catch-all definition of racism: "A racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person." No matter how hard young Michelle's white undergraduate contemporaries try to be nice, it's not their behaviour that counts, but how Michelle feels.


From Politico

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