{"id":1972,"date":"2017-02-03T08:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2017-12-08T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T23:46:16","slug":"black-ivy-leaguer-melts-privilege-white-professors-forgets-hes-ivy-leaguer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/black-ivy-leaguer-melts-privilege-white-professors-forgets-hes-ivy-leaguer\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ivy Leaguer Melts Down Over the &#8216;Privilege&#8217; of White Professors, Forgets He\u2019s an IVY LEAGUER"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/622581872\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 69.191919% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/622581872?et=_pRQZ3TiS0ZHR26FRPgsgg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=1kzZCAlbB8-2O2WBHKU_2Sk7Tu8M-23d-37OSLsAVgg=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"411\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, this is rich.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A black student privileged enough to attend the University of Pennsylvania is put off by the privilege of his white professors.\u00a0You just can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<p>James Fisher wrote about his mental breakdown (no, really) in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2017\/01\/james-fisher-privelege-does-not-exist-to-white-penn-professors\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">op-ed<\/a> for the <em>Daily Pennsylvanian<\/em> student newspaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLast semester was honestly the worst semester I\u2019ve had at Penn so far. And all because of one thing: the white professors I\u2019ve had at Penn. It appears that the term \u2018privilege\u2019 does not apply to them. Nor do they care to learn what it is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding their privileges to them is very different. They think that by not saying racist comments in class, they are doing good. Not knowing that that half-hearted attempt further contributes to the oppression that I experience in my predominantly white classrooms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a good time to remind you, dear reader, that no one forced Fisher to go to this school. You might say it\u2019s a privilege to go to an Ivy League school, but the irony is lost on this social justice snowflake who wreaks of privilege.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Fisher wears his privilege on his sleeve because he admits he walked into his class taught by \u201ca white man from the suburbs\u201d expecting to get \u201cmad over something stupid that he was going to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I gave him a chance.\u201d Oh, how thoughtful.<\/p>\n<p>And wouldn\u2019t you know it, Fisher\u2019s suspicions were right on the money. (We knew they would be):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere were countless times that his lack of acknowledgment of his privilege led to some of the trauma that I experienced in class. He would show images of slaves on plantations and even allow students to say ignorant comments in class.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fisher has NEVER said anything ignorant. Ever:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe then used the argument that, in order to make the class a \u2018safe space,\u2019 he had to protect the voices of all students in the class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where the problem arose for me. This is the same argument that #AllLivesMatter people use. They argue that everyone should be equal and that no life is more important than another.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, I take it back.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there\u2019s more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo, because my professor wanted to protect the voices of the white students who benefit from black oppression, the oppression unfortunately continued. It even led to me mentally breaking down in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stopped going to his class for a month. With different emotions going through my head from not only this class but from the Trump election, I did not want to step foot into another white space until I made sure that my mental health was restored.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stop right there. Just stop. If you are this unhinged mentally, perhaps it\u2019s time to consider not being around people anymore. Give up your spot at the table and let someone else sit down who wants to be there. I know, I know \u2014 that\u2019s my white privilege talking.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0in reality, if Fisher represents the mindset of the average college student today, and indeed he does, who would want to pay that much money to be around them?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2017\/02\/01\/black-ivy-leaguer-i-suffered-trauma-over-profs-who-didnt-acknowledge-their-white-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Blaze<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate privilege so much I forgot I&#8217;m privileged, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Ivy Leaguer Melts Down Over the &#039;Privilege&#039; 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