An Ohio university course made addressing “white” and “heterosexual privilege” a grant-funded focus in what critics called “pure identity politics.”
Radicalized institutions of “higher learning” have continually been found to be little more than indoctrination camps. The Ohio State University proved to be no different with their offering of a course focused on gender and race that pitted straight, white, able-bodied people against everyone else.
After Do No Harm, a group of medical professionals seeking to “Protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology,” submitted a Freedom of Information Act request, Fox News Digital reviewed the documents obtained about the course “Individual Differences in Patient/Client Populations.”
Offered through the university’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, the assignment dubbed “Unpack the Invisible Knapsack” stood out from the divisive curriculum.
The online course offered for fall 2023 included an activity were students were expected to select from the “White Privilege Knapsack,” the “Heterosexual Privilege Knapsack” and the “Able-Bodied Privilege Knapsack” that they might “consider how this differs or does not differ from how you’ve framed your relative privilege before, what you can do with the amount of privilege you DO have, how things would be different if you had more privilege, etc.”
Touting an impact of nearly 500 students, the course was the recipient of an Affordable Learning Exchange grant, which “awards grants to instructors who want to transform their courses using open and affordable materials.”
As described, the curriculum was derived from the 1989 essay “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” penned by anti-racist activist and feminist Peggy McIntosh.
“Whiteness protected me from many kinds of hostility, distress, and violence,” read an excerpt of McIntosh’s work, “which I was being subtly trained to visit, in turn, upon people of color.”
“The curriculum within Ohio State University’s Health Sciences Program highlights a broader trend found in many universities nationwide,” said Do No Harm chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb to Fox News Digital, “the adoption of divisive and political ideologies aimed at indoctrinating students. They theorize that interactions between groups must be viewed through the lens of critical race theory and the oppressor/oppressed dyad. This is pure identity politics and can only lead to divisiveness and intergroup hostility.”
Along with the “Knapsack” assignment, the documentary “White People” was required, prompting students to detail what “the term ‘white’ mean[s]” for them as well as why “the statement ‘Black lives mat[t]er’ triggers some white Americans.”
“Rather than veering into polarizing debates that deviate from health care’s core values, universities should prioritize equipping future health care providers with the crucial skills, knowledge and empathetic understanding essential to deliver the best care possible,” asserted Goldfarb.
In response to a request for comment from Fox News Digital, university spokesperson Ben Johnson said, “Ohio State believes in academic freedom and freedom of expression, including the free exchange of ideas by students and instructors. The university seeks to foster and maintain a campus environment where all viewpoints are welcome and respected.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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