“Once you get jazzed up for sex, a guy will stick it in a tree trump.”

Nah, it’s a choice to offended at shit like this. You have to actively assume the mentality of victimisation (lol) and apply the assumption that “whiteness” is actually a threatened physical trait.

“The electoral college confers more voting power to geographical locations, not ethnicity.”

You can absolutely hate the fact that centuries of violence and racism have been used to impose an identity on people stolen from Africa, sure. That capitalism and later white supremacy imposed that on folks was monstrous.

“Whiteness” is not a trait people are born with. It’s a socially constructed identity that separates one group from another.

but being black and brown doesn’t come with the legacy of destruction that whiteness comes with...that we continuall refuse to address or acknowledge.

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I thought it was a dance class.

That’s like saying women are sexist against men for wanting to discuss and analyze the poor treatment of women by men for centuries.

“The White Male Struggle: Caucasian Men and the New Persecuted Class”- coming soon to a red state college near you!

So, the fact that he referred specifically to ‘liberal extremists’ suggests to me that he’s never been to Madison.

Back in the antediluvian days of feminism when I got my degree, we used to refer to the penis/Phallus distinction to connote this same difference in level of abstraction. Someone with a penis is not the same as the metaphoric power of Phallus. Just as being caucasian/Whiteness are two different things.

No. Whiteness is a cultural construct. Nobodies actually white. We all run from pink to blue black.

It was deliberately given a sensational name to get people to sign up.

Because it actually matters. I’m White, and I don’t hate other White people solely on the basis of our shared race, but the collective identity of “Whiteness” as defined by the course, IS a problem. We currently live in a society that is essentially a benign white supremacy. It’s not white supremacy in the Nazi/hatred…

I’m not calling you a racist so lay that aside

But whiteness is NOT an immutable trait people are born with. It is a made-up social construct specifically designed to be exclusionary to protect the property, $, and power of some. How is that not a problem? Whiteness has been a problem from the very moment we thought it up—and I’m sure that is what this class talks…

As someone who both bikes and drives in Madison, it’s not particularly hard to do either, and if Steve Nass finds it so difficult, he’s probably not qualified to be a legislator.

As a not particularly useful aside, I love the phrase “exercising your shit” and will use it from now on to refer to my mild religiosity.

Force them all to audit the course. Maybe they’ll learn something outside of their echo chamber.