University of Wisconsin Law School students were recently taught a number of patently racist, backward, bigoted ideas.
The students were taught the ideas as part of a mandatory “Re-Orientation” training class for first-year students that occurred last Friday as per the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda.
According to the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), which broke the story last week, prior to the Friday class students were handed a document ostensibly listing “28 common racist attitudes and behaviors.” Yet the document itself is patently racist.
For example, the document claims that colorblindness is bad, that black people can’t be racist against whites, that a belief in due process is itself racist, that all white people possess “privilege based on your white skin color,” and that “there are no exceptional white people.”
“‘Colorblindness’ negates the cultural values, norms, expectations and life experiences of people of color,” the document reads.
“By saying we are not different, that you don’t see the color, you are also saying you don’t see your whiteness. This denies the people of color’ experience of racism and your experience of privilege,” it continues.
The document also props up affirmative action, an arguably racist policy that benefits blacks and Latinos by discriminating against whites and Asians.
View the document here. It was written by Debra Leigh, a black racial grievance monger and so-called “anti-racist” who works at St. Cloud State University.
In a statement, WILL condemned both the document and the workshop.
“This ‘DEI training’ is a form of indoctrination and demeans law students based on their race. WILL strongly condemns this meeting’s proposed subject matter and demands that any racially discriminatory instruction be removed,” the statement reads.
“By pushing racist ideology on law students, the University is defying federal law, creating a racially hostile environment, and harming individual student dignity,” it continues.
ALERT | UW Law Students Required to Attend “Re-Orientation” Presentation and Participate in Radical DEI Workshop
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— WILL (@WILawLiberty) January 18, 2024
In a separate statement, WILL president and general counsel Rick Esenberg slammed the University of Wisconsin Law School for subjecting students to “nonsense that ignores the rule of law and true equality in favor of a racialized way of seeing the world.”
“It is distressing to see our state’s only public law school requiring students to be ‘trained’ in a set of concepts which shreds the rejection of racial discrimination that so many fought so hard to make the law of the land,” he added.
Students have also spoken out about the so-called training.
“Programs like these make me feel as if I cannot speak openly in my classes, nor with my peers,” one anonymous student told WILL. “I do not feel that this culture promotes intellectual diversity, but rather a singular way of thinking.”
“I should not feel ashamed that I do not choose my friends by the color of their skin. I should not feel ashamed that I believe in diversity in thought, rather than diversity in appearance. It is disheartening that this institution does not agree,” the student added.
Anger is now also mounting on social media, especially about the “no exceptional white people” part of the document:
There’s plenty of exceptional white people. For example – those that dedicate their lives to raising their children……
— Will C (@_Will_c_82) January 25, 2024
The nation that was built so you have that freedom of speech to say ridiculous things like that was built by exceptional white people.
— Sam73 (@Sammie7273) January 25, 2024
Does that include the ones who built this country, invented 99.9% of every thing used in that building, and in everyday life.
Or just the people within that classroom?— I’M THINKING…… (@BobbyGBklyn) January 25, 2024
Light bulbs, computers, trains, airplanes, cars, cell phones, medical crash cart, harnessing electricity, the United States, and on and on and on……all created by white dudes. Thank you white dudes, you make life better!
— Kim Hamblin (@KimHamblin01) January 25, 2024
I beg to differ. I guess those white men that founded this country, created the car, the telegraph/telephone, air conditioning, airplanes, and discovered how to harness and generate electricity were all just average white guys though huh?
— Texas Rambler (@RamblingTXN) January 25, 2024
As for the class itself, according to The Federalist, it was conducted by “social justice educator” Joey Oteng, another black racial grievance monger.
According to an anonymous source who spoke with the outlet, Oteng surveyed his students with an online survey tool.
“Under the prompt ‘I understand institutional and systemic racism,’ the survey asks respondents to answer on a scale that ranges from ‘unsure’ to ‘confidently,'” The Federalist notes.
“One section of the survey bizarrely asked students to share ‘words, phrases, stereotypes, slurs, words of bias, etc.’ associated with racial groups such as ‘Black folks,’ ‘Middle Eastern communities,’ ‘Latin/e/o/a/x communities,’ ‘Native/indigenous communities,’ and ‘white communities,'” according to The Federalist.
When Oteng asked the class for slurs used for black people, the conversation was reportedly serious. But when he asked the class for slurs for white people, it turned comedic.
“When it came to slurs about black people, Native Americans, Asians and Middle Eastern people, it was a very serious moment,” the source said. “When it got to white people and the derogatory terms used for white people, [Oteng] was implying that it was OK to laugh at white slurs because white people don’t have any problems.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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