The
State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton now offers a course called
“#StopWhitePeople2K16” as part of its routine training for residential
assistants. (“RAs” act as mentors and
counselors- as well as peers- to the student residents they oversee).
“#StopWhitePeople2016” appears
on the school’s residential assistant training schedule, with the stated
mission of giving RA’s an “overview of disabilities in Higher Education.” The
course presenters, all RAs at the state-funded college, say their purpose is to
“help others take the next step in understanding diversity, privilege, and the
society we function within.” The three RAs claim they will give
“#StopWhitePeople2K16” course attendees the “tools” to respond to “uneducated
people” with “‘good’ arguments,” according to the Dailywire.com. Uneducated people? (Like those with
jobs…whose taxes pay your salaries, perhaps)?
But this is not the extent of
the RAs largesse. They also state that they will help other RAs at the
state-funded college “hopefully expand upon what they may already know.” By
God, is there no end to their beneficence?!
The university’s conservative
student paper, The Binghamton Review, noted- in reference to the course- that
the university “seems to endorse it as a proper part of RA training.” It added:
“At a public, state funded university,
to potentially see racism endorsed is a frightening prospect for the future of
higher education.”
SUNY
describes itself as New York’s highest-ranking public college.
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