Indoctrination/"Treatment" at U of Delaware?

[benji]

I know, but this site has the best quick summary for easy reading: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2 ... are_1.html

Residential assistants charged with imposing the "treatments" have undergone intensive training from the university. The training makes clear that white people are to be considered racists - at least those who have not yet undergone training and confessed their racism. The RAs have been taught that a "racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture, or sexuality."
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Residents are pressured to promise at least a 20 percent reduction in their ecological footprint and to promise to work for a "oppressed" group. Students are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings and one-on-one sessions where RAs ask personal questions such as "When did you discover your sexual identity?". Students are pressured or required to accept an array of the university's approved views.
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Kerr and her program are more ambitious. She has been quoted as saying that the job of RAs is to educate the whole human being with a "curricular approach to residential education." In this curricular approach, students are required to report their thoughts and opinions. One professor says: "You have to confess what you believe to the RA." The RAs write reports to their superiors on student progress in cooperating with the "treatment."

[BigKaboom2]

I am awaiting an NLSC left-winger coming out in favor of this.

[cyanide]

Yikes, sounds Orwellian. I would hate to know what would happen to the student who had to reveal their most ethnist and hatred thoughts.

BK: I doubt anybody would be in favor of this.

[Ty-Land]

Well this is different to what I had to do as an RA. I just worried about my floors welfare, made sure everyone was relatively happy, no drugs were used inside the hall and the drunk kids got home alright.

If this 'treatment' was required when I was an RA, I would have laughed at them. What a joke. RA's a there to act as mentors, not to perform psychological analysis and aggressively educate others. We did put forth environmental policies though, which we agreed upon and got student support. These policies were focussed on minimising water usage (as Australia's in a long drought, and Melbourne's water supplies are very very low) and providing environmentally friendly dishwashing detergent to students to use in the kitchens.

[BigKaboom2]

BK: I doubt anybody would be in favor of this.

I felt the same way until a month or two ago.

[cyanide]

I felt the same way until a month or two ago.

What happened a month or two ago?

[BigKaboom2]

Various threads dealing with politics, I guess.

[TheMC5]

I am awaiting an NLSC left-winger coming out in favor of this.

Be a little more passive aggressive, why don't you?

[shadowgrin]

Fight the power! Indoctrinate thy self!

That Kathleen Kerr fella' sure sounds like a self-righteous nut job.
lol at the comments in the link benji posted.

[BigKaboom2]

I am awaiting an NLSC left-winger coming out in favor of this.

Be a little more passive aggressive, why don't you?

I have absolutely no idea why what I said would ever be considered passive aggressive.

[shadowgrin]

Found some more links in an article from the original link benji posted.
You should see some of the files (in pdf form) provided by the links. It's hilarious.

A NON-RACIST: A non-term. The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called "blaming the victim"). Responsibility for perpetuating and legitimizing a racist system rests both on those who actively maintain it, and on those who refuse to challenge it. Silence is consent." - Page 3

REVERSE RACISM: A term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege. Those in denial use the term reverse racism to refer to hostile behavior by people of color toward whites, and to affirmative action policies, which allegedly give 'preferential treatment' to people of color over whites. In the U.S., there is no such thing as 'reverse racism.'" - Page 3

Have you ever heard a well-meaning white person say, 'I'm not a member of any race except the human race?' What she usually means by this statement is that she doesn't want to perpetuate racial categories by acknowledging that she is white. This is an evasion of responsibility for her participation in a system based on supremacy for white people." - Page 8

I really laughed after reading some of it. I can't believe they believe that shite.