Ten Things You Didn’t Know Were Racist
by John Leo August 20, 2015 12:15 PM
1. “Baa, Baa Black Sheep” is racist. The nursery rhyme, which dates back
to the Middle Ages, is under attack. Some schools and family centers in
Scotland, England, and Australia have eliminated the word “black” as
racist, and now refer to “rainbow sheep,” “happy sheep,” or “green
sheep,” though these new adjectives make no sense at all. Stuart
Chamberlain of the Oxford Sure Start Center in Sutton Courtenay,
Oxfordshire, said, “Basically we have taken the equal-opportunity
approach to everything we do.” A local dissenter, however, called it
“Stalinist.”
2. M.A.s may be racist, postmasters too. Stephen Davis, master of
Pierson College at Yale, says the word “master” in his title is severely
upsetting some students and driving them off campus. He wants Pierson
and Yale’s eleven other residential colleges to have “heads” rather than
“masters.”
3. Liking white meat is racist. Writer Ron Rosenbaum said in Slate that
racism accounts for the popularity of white-meat turkey over more
flavorful dark meat. “White meat turkey has no taste,” he explained.
“Despite its superior taste, dark meat has dark undertones for some.
Dark meat seems to summon up ancient fears of contamination and
miscegenation as opposed to the supposed superior purity of white meat.”
4. Hoop skirts are racist. After student affairs administrators met with
fraternity and sorority leaders, the University of Georgia banned hoop
skirts as evocations of the ante bellum South. Writing in the Washington
Post, Elizabeth Boyd opined that this decision should go national:
While donning a hoop skirt may not constitute a hate crime . . .
make no mistake. The Southern belle performances routinely staged on
campuses across the South constitute choreography of exclusion . . .
young white women serve as signs of nostalgia for a bygone, segregated
South and all its attendant privileges.
5. Lunch bags look racist. Elliot Bronstein of the Seattle Office for
Civil Rights sent a memo to the public-affairs office banning the term
“brown bag” as in brown-bag lunches.
6. Complimenting America as open and fair is racially hurtful. “I
believe the most qualified person should get the job” is officially
listed as a micro-aggression that the University of California wants
eliminated from its classrooms. Also banned are “America is the land of
opportunity,” and “America is a melting pot,” because some students may
regard those ideas as controversial.
7. Libertarians are racist. In an interview, testy HBO writer-producer
David Simon (The Wire, Treme) severely criticized libertarians and
suggested that libertarian rhetoric about “freedom” and “liberty” is
just code for racism.
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8. Climate change advances racism. Best-selling Canadian author Naomi
Klein told the Guardian, “You see that in Australia where the treatment
of migrants is a profound moral crisis. It’s clear that as sea levels
rise this mean streak and open racism is going to become more extreme.”
9. Banning sagging pants is racist. NRO’s Katherine Timpf reported that
Henderson State University in Arkansas had banned sagging pants, but the
sign announcing the ban came down in two days after students protested.
“Those students wanting the sign taken down because they say sagging
pants are culturally associated with African Americans,” said student
Daisha Haggans.
10. If too many white males are in your class, that’s racist. The
Harvard “Voices of Diversity” project interviewed 200 students at four
U.S. colleges and found that racist and sexist “micro-aggressions” —
subtle but hurtful digs — are a serious problem. Examples: finding that
most of the people in your class are white males, other students rolling
their eyes when you speak, and “a slight raising of the eyebrows or
eyes following you in the dining hall.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422819/racist-microaggression-list
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422819/racist-microaggression-list
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