Im not a fan of the new culture of academics feeling the need to justify their worthyness for a job role in spite of their whiteness, I feel it sets the precedent that all white people should be expected to do the same.
Today during a presentation a white member of staff felt the need to bring up that the opportunities department she works in (3 members of staff) were white. "We are a very white department"
She went on to say that despite being white they all tried their hardest to understand the lived experiences of other demographics.
I really feel that this sort of behaviour is putting an onus on white people to assure people of colour that they aren't racist, (which is so sus anyway) rather than affording white people (as we should with all people) the presumption of innocence and the plea of no case to answer.
If a black professor started his presentation by assuring us that despite his blackness he was good person that didn't fall into negative stereotypes it would certainly and very understandably make black people feel uncomfortable too, even I as a white person would feel uncomfortable.
This felt awful and I really feel like a sort of anti whitness or at least a form of white skepticism and suspicion in academia is now just the norm.
All this just one week after another much older professor said that he shouldn't be first to speak on his area of academic study (African domestic policy) because he was a "white Anglo saxon"
He could have just said that the doctor in the room who was African, has more experience on the matter and as an esteemed guest should be granted the opportunity to speak first.
What do you guys think?
Please be advised that I reject the principal of equity by aesthetics, in an equal society we should all have a fair crack at the whipp and therfore equality of opportunity is superior.
Submitted March 22, 2024 at 05:47AM by powertrippingmodporn https://ift.tt/nJOfKqs
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