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Home Front: Culture Wars
Columbia Student in Anguish Because She Has to Read Books by White People
2015-11-21
[PJ Media] White privilege. It's everywhere, I tell you. You can't escape its smothering influence -- even at one of the finest (and most expensive) schools in the land.

Take the case of this poor, wilting flower. Nissy Aya is now in her fifth year of undergraduate study at Columbia University. She was supposed to graduate last year with the rest of her class, but finds herself -- totally not her fault -- on track to graduate next year.

Ms. Aya says that she has experienced much angst and anguish while taking Columbia's Core courses, studying the greatest, the most powerful, the most tolerant civilization in the history of the human race -- Western civilization. It seems that Ms. Aya has feelings of inadequacy when reading all these books by dead white males.
Posted by:Besoeker

#14  A minstrel arrived at Mizzou
To major in ragtime kazoo.
He started a cakewalk
To fight against rape-talk...
They threw him out on his wazoo.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-11-21 22:49  

#13  We have black universities in America, and open borders so she can apply to a university in a non-white country if she needs.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-11-21 21:21  

#12  That's pretty good, Steve.
Posted by: phil_b   2015-11-21 20:05  

#11  Maybe you [Americans] should translate all textbooks to Ebonics?

We could write a computer program to do that. But it would be racist because the computer was invented by The White Man.

It's not hard to see why the gal feels bad. Pretty much everything that makes the modern world modern was created or invented by The White Man. If you define your identity as being Not-White, there is not a whole lot left to be proud of. Besides peanut butter.

But not to worry, The White Man is a big tent. Anyone can join up. Because it is not about skin color or gender, it's about culture. Dr. Ben Carson, born a black ghetto baby in Detroit, is a White Man. Condoleezza Rice, White Man. Same with Mia Love and Clarence Thomas. Or Asians, in general.

And unlike overweight black women ragging on gay men for appropriating their speech patterns and mannerisms, The White Man doesn't care about "cultural appropriation". Feel the urge to design a microchip, cure a disease, invent a dessert, drive a race car, sing Broadway show tunes? Have at it! The more, the merrier. The White Man is a big, big tent.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-11-21 18:38  

#10  Five years of pre-law, shot.
Posted by: Grampaw tse Tung8411   2015-11-21 17:40  

#9  Maybe someone should point out to this idjit that her reaction is racist.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562    2015-11-21 17:00  

#8  Why does the words 'Affirmitive Action' come to mind?

My gues is that she can't handle the work and is blaming whitey!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-11-21 15:35  

#7  Electrical Engineering?
Posted by: Raj   2015-11-21 15:07  

#6  Let's play: "Guess her Major"?
Posted by: Frank G   2015-11-21 13:53  

#5  Well things are tough all over. If you haven't got anything out of the place in 5 years, then you better give the path a rethink, using all the logic you have acquired in all those years of higher edumication.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-11-21 11:33  

#4  Totally not her fault, yup, that's her generation. She is the smartest, never lost a soccer game and has the trophies to prove it, tolerant super woman. Go to another college if they don't teach to your liking...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2015-11-21 11:22  

#3   Nissy Aya is now in her fifth year of undergraduate study at Columbia University.

Five years of college... down the drain!
Posted by: John Blutarsky   2015-11-21 11:05  

#2  No one forces you to attend Columbia or any other university in America.

Notice the success of the Asians. They too notice success in life and history and are keen to exploit it. Up till around 1700 China had been "the" power and civilization in the world. Then these upstart European states showed up on the globe far away from home. The problem for the Chinese was a cyclic history of dynasties that rose and collapse as each spent its time trying to maintain its status quo. The Euros lived in a dynamic world of conflict and chaos that sparked social, economic, and technological change and advance. When they showed up on the Asians shores, the Chinese, accustomed to being the power in the world, thought their problem was not following the strictures of old and efficiently maintain that status quo. The Japanese figure it was the technology and organization and embraced it. They got so good at it, they too were able to join in on the conflict and chaos. The Koreans would follow suit. The Chinese would not wake up will the 80s and have been on a run since then. Their success demonstrates they know something you obviously don't or refuse to recognize as many others wrapped up with their self centered egos.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-11-21 08:33  

#1  Maybe you [Americans] should translate all textbooks to Ebonics?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-11-21 04:29  

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