Because of their race.
At a time when racial tensions are running high, students at a Texas college are upset because a controversial assignment called ‘White Privilege’ given by a professor at Lone Star College – Tomball campus.
The assignment was a ‘White Privileges’ worksheet given in an online course.
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The worksheet included statements like: ‘I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed,’ ‘If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race,’ and ‘I can turn on the television or open the front page of the paper and see people of my race being well represented.’
The student did not want to be identified for fear of backlash from the professor and told KPRC that he hopes the professor will re-think the assignment.
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The professor has not commented publicly about the assignment but the college released a statement saying the assignment was a ‘supplemental’ exercise with no point value.
Of course, there was no question on the paper that asked “I can attend a public college without fear of being singled out for harassment by my instructors because of my race.”
Maybe next time.
Any time ‘white privilege’ is brought up, I think it’s the human equivalent of dog-shaming. Considering there’s no charging people with ‘black privilege’, ‘women’s privilege’, ‘gay privilege’, ‘Asian privilege’, or ‘(insert social subculture here) privilege’, methinks the use of the privilege argument is being used in racist ways.