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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't lump all of them together. And, for the record, they are a mixture of high school and college level presentations.

The dad saying colonialism in southeast Asia "sucked" is fair and, frankly, true. It did.
The point about white privilege being one form of history taught as core and the other as an elective is also fair.

There are also a few of those slides, such as the Amiri Baraka analysis, that are clearly part of a larger presentation (read the subtitle), so the photos are really out of context.

In either case, if I was the professor or teacher, I would challenge the students who presented the reverse racism/fairytale slides to flesh out and defend their positions. Do they mean because racism presumes rights enjoyed as part of a dominant power structure? What about cases when minorities have the power in a situation such as the recent attack on a disabled man by black teens which was streamed on FB live? Those people were charged with hate crimes. How does the "there's no reverse racism" thesis hold up in such instances?

The presentations attacking white people as a homogenous group... totally inappropriate, racist, and intellectually lazy. Fail.

And BuzzFeed gets a fail for putting together, in typical vapid, click-bait fashion, such a shallow collection absent context.

Signed an AA professor

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