The irony is rich. White people throwing criticism of white privilege at a Whiteness deconstruction project without looking into it...white privilege much? And I really can go the rest of my life without hearing “problematic” again. Just say what is problematic about the thing you are talking about.It will help us…

You obviously don’t get it. They didn’t choose the right name for their project, therefor it’s the stupidest idea since coats for dogs. It’s not like what they’re actually doing is important or anything.

The snark about “shaming white people” seems unfair - it’s just addressing what I imagine a lot of criticism is about. Anytime you bring up white privelege, there’s a good change some white person will miss the point and go on about guilt.

Yeah, I don’t see why an initiative to examine and deconstruct privilege is a bad thing! It is also interesting to explore the history of the concept of whiteness and how it is applied to certain ethnic groups over time. “Whiteness History Month” is certainly a little clunky, but it’s also clearly drawing attention,…

Wait, what? Isn’t a project to analyze the meaning of “whiteness” and its history a pretty obviously good idea? I expect to see people upset about that at the Daily Caller, not here.

This is an example of a Jezebel writer offering readers only a tiny snippet of a story and then twisting it for clickbait value (and I enjoy reading Jezebel, I don’t feel like this happens all that frequently). There are plenty of actual news outlets covering the project (both its potential benefits AND flaws)…

Don’t worry, this is an example of a Jezebel writer offering readers only a tiny snippet of a story and then twisting it for clickbait value. There are plenty of actual news outlets covering the project (both its potential benefits AND flaws) in-depth, but you can be sure that the VAST majority of commenters here…

But who is this event for? If it is for the general community at large, then they could have brought community members in to plan this. If it is for the community college, then “whiteness history month” makes sense in academic terms. It could be the history of whiteness studies, it could be the application of…

Hi there, I am a student leader at Portland Community College. I am helping to organize this event. I just wanted to let you know that we are addressing intersections of privilege—in fact, we have multiple workshops about this topic going on this month. Whiteness History Month has been really difficult for our school.…

In short: the intention behind it is meant to encourage dialogue about the annals of white privilege, which is good. The name? Not so much.

In a “Whiteness” critical theory class I took back in undergrad, we talked a lot about how whiteness is treated as being neutral. As in, ‘to be white’ (acknowledging the construction of race as a not real but all too real thing) is thought of as not having a race, when in fact there are a number of specific…