A UNIVERSITY IN FLORIDA HAS A CLASS THAT UNFORTUNATELY
NEEDS TO BE GUARDED BY POLICE BECAUSE OF THE TOPIC THAT IS
COVERED IN THAT CLASS.
IT IS TITLED WHITE RACISM AND IT IS AT FLORIDA GULF UNIVERSITY.
THE FIRST CLASS HAD TWO POLICE GUARDS GUARDING IT
BECAUSE OF THREATS THAT WERE MADE TOWARD TED THORNHILL WHICH
IS THE PROFESSOR TEACHING THE SOCIOLOGY COURSE.
SOME OF THE
THREATS THAT THE PROFESSOR RECEIVED INCLUDED THE
STANDARD DEATH THREATS WHICH MOST PUBLIC FIGURES EXPERIENCE
AT SOME POINT, BUT ALSO SOME COMMENTS INCLUDING
THE
FOLLOWING:
NO IRONY THERE AT ALL, GIVE HIM A RACIST NAME AND THEN CALL
HIM RACIST.
THAT WENT RIGHT OVER HIS HEAD.
THIS NEXT ONE APPEARS TO BE SENT BY DONALD TRUMP BECAUSE OF
THE USE OF CAPS BUT PROBABLY NOT.
IT SAYS:
OF COURSE THEY CALLED A SUBHUMAN MONGREL WHILE SAYING HOW DARE
YOU SAY THERE IS WHITE RACISM.
EVERY ONE OF THOSE MISSED THE CONCEPT OF IRONY.
NOW LET'S BREAK IT DOWN.
HAS THERE BEEN WHITE DOMINANCE SUPREMACY AND RACISM IN
THIS COUNTRY FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS?
NO, NEVER.
IS THIS A DEBATE?
LOOK, WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF RACISM IN THIS
COUNTRY, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT HE IS CALLING YOU RACIST.
HE DOES NOT KNOW YOU.
YOU TAKE IT SO PERSONALLY AND IT MAKES ME WONDER WHAT IT IS
THAT MAKES YOU DO THAT.
ANA IS LITERALLY CAUCASIAN, DO YOU TAKE IT PERSONALLY?
I DON'T.
NOT ONLY DO I LOOK WHITE, ARMENIANS ARE FROM THE CAUCUS.
FOR ME, THIS CLASS IS NO DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER
SOCIOLOGY CLASS HAS BEEN TAUGHT IN REGARD TO RACE RELATIONS
IN THE UNITED STATES.
THE THING THAT TRIGGERED PEOPLE WAS THE TITLE OF THE CLASS,
WHITE RACISM.
IF YOU GET TRIGGERED BY THAT, THEN THERE IS SOME SORT OF
GUILT EITHER SUBCONSCIOUSLY OR VERY CONSCIOUSLY BEGINNING
TO DEAL WITH BECAUSE WHEN I HEAR ABOUT THIS CLASS, I DO NOT
THINK OH MY GOD, THIS GUYS CALLING YOU RACIST, HOW DARE HE.
I DO GO, WE ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH HAPPENED
HISTORICALLY IN THE UNITED STATES AND WHAT IS
CURRENTLY HAPPENING TODAY WHICH MAYBE TWO YEARS AGO I WOULD
SAY ISN'T SO OVERT BUT LATELY IT HAS BEEN.
LET'S CONTINUE.
WHITE RACISM.
DOES THAT MEAN IF YOU ARE TEACHING A CLASS ON WHITE
RACISM THAT THAT IS THE ONLY RACISM THAT EXISTS AND THAT
IS WHAT THE PROFESSOR THINKS?
NO, HE NEVER SAID THAT.
COULD THERE BE BLACK RACISM, ASIAN
RACISM?
OF COURSE.
DO YOU KNOW HOW OLD RACISM IS?
ALMOST EVERYBODY THINKS THAT EVERYONE ELSE IS LESS THAN THEM.
IN JAMAICA, YOU COULD HAVE A CLASS ON BLACK RACISM AGAINST
ASIANS.
WHEN I WAS THERE ABOUT A DECADE AGO, AND I DO NOT KNOW IF IT HAS
CHANGED SINCE THEN, BUT MOST EVERY ASIAN PERSON AND
THERE WERE PLENTY AND JAMAICA ARE CALLED MR.
CHEN AND MISS
CHEN AND I HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE ASIAN AND JAMAICAN AND THEY
DO NOT APPRECIATE IT.
IF YOU ARE DOING THE CLASS IN JAMAICA, YOU WOULD DO ONE
ON BLACK RACISM, AND CHINA, YOU MIGHT DO IT ON CHINESE RACISM.
BUT IN AMERICA, WHAT IS THE PRIMARY FORM OF RACISM?
CORSET IS WHITE RACISM.
I TALKED ABOUT IN A RECENT OLD-SCHOOL, MEMBERS ALWAYS GET
IT, TYTNETWORK.COM/JOIN BUT IT IS NOW IN ITUNES THAT WE JUST
DID IT WITH JAYAR AND MALCOLM IN THE LAST EPISODE BUT REAL QUICK
HERE, TURKS IN GERMANY ARE THE MINORITY AND THEY ARE
TREATED LIKE AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE TREATED HERE IN AMERICA
SO IF YOU DID A CLASS ON GERMAN RACISM AGAINST TURKS IN
GERMANY THAT MIGHT MAKE SENSE.
TURKESTAN RACISM AGAINST GERMAN I'M SURE EXISTS BUT IT IS
NOT THEIR PREDOMINANT ISSUE IN GERMANY.
ON THE OTHER HAND, IF YOU ARE IN TURKEY WHERE THE TURKS OF THE
MAJORITY THEN A CLASS ON TURKISH RACISM MAKES ALL THE SENSE IN
THE WORLD WHEREAS CLASS ON A MARTY AND RACISM AGAINST
TURKS IN TURKEY MAKES NO SENSE BECAUSE TURKS ARE THE
MAJORITY IN TURKEY.
THESE ARE SIMPLE CONCEPTS BUT YOU DON'T CARE TO
UNDERSTAND THEM IF YOU THINK KNOW, THERE'S NO SUCH THING
AS RACISM, WHY WON'T BLACK PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEIR ROLE AS?
FOR ME, THIS GOES BEYOND THE SPECIFIC TOPIC OF RACISM.
THIS GOES TOWARD A BROADER TOPIC THAT'S BEEN ONGOING
REGARDING COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND FREE SPEECH.
FOR ME IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALLOW VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES TO BE
REPRESENTED ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS EVEN IF IT IS A PERSPECTIVE THAT
YOU DISAGREE WITH BECAUSE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN AN
ENVIRONMENT THAT CHALLENGES YOUR PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS AND SO WHEN
YOU HAVE THE BEEN SCHAPIRO'S GO ON TO THE BERKELEY CAMPUS TO
GIVE A SPEECH, I DON'T LIKE THE PEOPLE TRY TO STOP THAT
SPEECH FROM HAPPENING, EVEN IF YOU DISLIKE HIM OR DISAGREE
WITH HIS IDEOLOGY, I THINK THAT THERE IS VALUE IN HEARING
WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.
I LISTEN TO HIS PODCAST TIME TO TIME, NOT BECAUSE I'M A FAN OF
HIS, BECAUSE WHO KNOWS, MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING HE IS RIGHT
ABOUT THAT I AM RIGHT ABOUT.
YOU ARE OPEN-MINDED THAT
HERE'S THE THING, I THINK THAT WE AS HUMANS, IT'S A
HUMAN INSTINCT THAT WE ALL KIND OF REVERT BACK TO HER
COMFORT ZONE AND WE REMAIN IN OUR LITTLE IDEOLOGICAL
BUBBLES AND I WANT TO BE CHALLENGED.
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I WOULD HEAR AN ARGUMENT ON THE
OTHER SIDE THAT I THINK IS VALUABLE AND IT WILL MAKE
ME DO A LITTLE MORE INVESTIGATING.
THAT IS A GOOD THING.
I WANT COLLEGE STUDENTS TO STOP TRYING TO BE CAUGHT OLD.
I KNOW THAT IS GOING TO OFFEND A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT ONCE YOU
ARE OUT OF COLLEGE AND YOU ARE IN THE REAL WORLD, IT GETS REAL.
THERE IS NO ONE TO CALL YOU OR TO CARESS YOUR BEHIND AND
TELL YOU IT IS GOING TO BE OKAY.
LIFE SUCKS AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH A LOT OF
PRETTY TERRIBLE PEOPLE.
IT IS BETTER IF YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
AND DEAL WITH IDEAS THAT MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE THEN TO
EXPECT PEOPLE TO JUST AGREE WITH YOU ALL THE TIME.
TWO THINGS ABOUT THAT, ONE, I AM A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THAT
BECAUSE I WAS A REPUBLICAN BUT I WAS OPEN-MINDED ENOUGH TO START
LISTENING TO THE OTHER SIDE AND THEN EVENTUALLY I WAS LIKE THAT
POSITION IS TRUE AND BY THE WAY, HISTORY SHOWED THAT REPUBLICANS
DO NOT BALANCE THE BUDGETS, THINGS ALONG THOSE LINES
AND PEACE THEIR STRENGTH DIDN'T MEAN PEACE, ADMIT ENDLESS WAR.
KEEP AN OPEN MIND AND WHAT AND I SAYING APPLIES TO BOTH SIDES,
LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
KIDDING ASIDE, GOING TO HEAR A CONSERVATIVE SPEAKER, I
HEARD JESSE JACKSON WHEN I WAS A REPUBLICAN AT COLLEGE AND I
WALKED OUT GOING, THAT WAS SURPRISING.
THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD.
HE MADE A BUNCH OF GOOD POINTS.
AND THEN I WENT TO LISTEN TO FARRAKHAN AND THE FIRST HALF
OF THE SPEECH WAS ABOUT PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND I LIKED THAT.
THE SECOND HALF WAS ABOUT HOW THE JEWS OF THE WORST AND I
WAS LIKE WHAT?
I HATE THAT.
YOU GO AND LISTEN, DOESN'T MEAN YOU AGREE, IT MEANS TO KEEP AN
OPEN MIND AND FOR CONSERVATIVES, CAN YOU STOP BEING
SNOWFLAKES FOR A SECOND.
YOU GET TRIGGERED BY, JUST BECAUSE THEY ADDED THE WORD
RIGHT IN FRONT OF RACISM.
WHAT IS THE PREDOMINANT FORM OF RACISM IN THE MEXICAN AMERICA?
YOU KNOW THERE WAS SLAVERY AND OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.
OF COURSE YOU DO, UNLIKE YOU WE DON'T CELEBRATE IGNORANCE.
THERE WAS SLAVERY ALL ACROSS THE WORLD, BUT IN AMERICA, IT
WAS PREDOMINANTLY WHITE PEOPLE WHO HAD BLACK SLAVES.
FOR YOU TO DENY THAT IS ABSURD AND IS DEFENSIVE IN A WAY
THAT MAKES YOU THINK, WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE?
I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU WOULD NEED TO SAVE SPACE FROM THIS
VERY OBVIOUS CLASS.
JUST LET IT GO AND HAVE AN OPEN MIND FOR
A SECOND, BOTH SIDES.