by
John Stevenson
White
males are a species our civilization, or at least academia, would be better off
without. At least that’s what Piper Harron, a professor
at the University of Hawaii says. Her thesis is that white men, just by their presence,
are keeping others from advancing.
Well,
to be fair, her problem is not with all men---it’s only with white cis
men. What is a cis man? He’s a man who is biologically a man and who knows
he is a man. (Odd that someone invented
a word for that---wouldn’t “normal” suffice?)
So transgender men are exempt from Harron’s complaint. Here’s what she wrote:
Not to alarm you, but I probably want
you to quit your job, or at least take a demotion…you are probably taking up
room that should go to someone else. If
you are a white cis man…you almost certainly should resign from your position
of power…[and] make sure you’re replaced by a woman of color or trans person.
Not
relying on white cis men to go away voluntarily, Harron also suggests that
universities stop hiring white cis men. Of
course if you disagree with her you are racist, sexist, or transphobic.
The
Democratic National Committee (DNC) recently sought to fill eight positions in
its tech department. These included IT
Systems Administrator, Product Manager, and Chief Security Officer.
Madeline
Leader, the DNC’s Data Services Manager, sent an email to employees saying that
she was looking to recruit a “staff of diverse voices and life experiences.” But
apparently that diversity does not include white cis men, because Leader
included this: “I personally would prefer that you not forward to cis gender
straight white males, as they are already in the majority.” So much for the heralded inclusiveness of the
Democratic Party.
DNC
spokesman Michael Tyler disavowed Leader’s message, saying it “was not
authorized by DNC nor was it authorized by senior leadership.”
But
the Grand Prize for proposals to solve the whiteness problem once and for all goes
to Nicole Valentine, who writes in medusamagazine.com. Valentine goes far beyond the University of
Hawaii professor and the DNC’s Data Services Manager. After all, they only wanted white males to
give up their jobs to women of color or to transgenders---or at least to keep
white males from advancing in their careers.
Valentine
wants white folks to be aborted out of existence. Here are some of the more coherent excerpts
from her genocidal essay:
In progressive society, it is often
white families that stand in the way of equality and justice…That is why the
white family must be destroyed.
Valentine
then offers this totally inverted view of the availability of abortions. “Women of color do not often have the
privilege to choose termination as do white women…white supremacy prevents
women of color from their freedom to choose.”
Data show just the opposite is true: whether measured by the number of
abortions per woman (age 15-44) or by the number of abortions per 1000 live
births, Black women have roughly three times the number of abortions as white
women.
But,
back to the excerpts from Valentine’s entertaining if deranged thesis:
White women: it is time to do your
part! Your white children reinforce the
white supremacist society that benefits you.
If you claim to be progressive, and yet willingly birth white children
by your own choice, then you are a hypocrite.
White women should be encouraged to abort their white children, and to
use their freed-up time and resources to assist women of color who have no
other choice but to raise their children…How about adopting children of color
who have lost their parents to the destructive white supremacist society that
you have enabled and encouraged?
There’s
plenty more, as you can imagine, but here is Valentine’s piece-de-resistance:
Of course, the best choice is to act
preventatively to ensure that white children are not at risk of being born.
Whiteness
problem solved. Hard to top that one.
