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Students told to wear white pins to remind them of white privilege

For the next month, white students at Elizabethtown will wear white puzzle piece pins to raise awareness of their own white privilege.

The campaign was launched over the weekend by the Elizabethtown College Democrats, who say it aims to make students at the small and private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania more introspective about issues of race, especially in their predominantly white region of Lancaster County.

“Discussions about race are often perceived as being only open to people of color, but I think it is just as important for white people to partake in conversations about race,” Aileen Ida, president of the College Democrats, told The College Fix via email.

Ida said white people are continually allowing for a societal system of oppression to occur unless they work against it. The white puzzle piece pin represents racial struggles of all sorts.

“No matter how accepting someone is, that doesn't stop them from being part of a system based on centuries of inequality,” she said, adding the campaign transcends politics.

Asked if all white students are privileged, Ida responded “yes,” but clarified that she doesn't think all whites are socioeconomically privileged. Ida declined to cite specific examples of white privilege.

She also clarified that it's not just white students who can wear the pins, that students of all races should take part to start a campuswide discussion that crosses racial divides.

Next month they should come by the tractor barn so they can wear something from the tool room...

This reminds me of another time when some students were told to wear puzzle pieces on their chests as a sign of alleged privilege, except then the color was yellow.

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On the same day instead of wearing the white pins and showing you have white privilege. You take the white pin representing white privilege and throw it in a haystack symbolically showing everyone the white privilege is no longer locatable and finding it is a futile task

She also clarified that it's not just white students who can wear the pins, that students of all races should take part to start a campuswide discussion that crosses racial divides.

Smart. This is no longer just about shaming anyone who is white because people who feel guilty are more pliable. This is also about making anyone who is not white to stop "acting white" or even consider "acting white."

Translation: abandon all thoughts about developing useful skills, working hard, and achieving success on your own, based on your individual merits. Your only place is in the collective as a small piece of a bigger puzzle that is being assembled by the invisible hand of the Deity of Progress.

[color=#C0392B]Ivan 'The Tool' Stakhanovets[/color] wrote:Next month they should come by the tractor barn so they can wear something from the tool room...

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Ivan has extraordinary white privilege...
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Comrades. Embarrassing question. What is this "white privilege"? Is this an example of it? Someone completely unqualified for a high level executive position and he gets it because of his skin color?

.............. Useful-Tool Awareness Pins

To raise awareness of your useful tool-i-ness.

White and black are sooooo binary. Now, the true inclusivicity (or some such word) is represented by the genuine tabby. Calicos have some genuinocity (or some such word) as well.

I have found, Comrades, that diversity for the left is dependent on genitalia and skin color. Monolithiosity (?) of thought is essential!! We must act and think as ONE! With naughty bits and skin that don't match. That's what is really important.