Pray for the Severely Educated

[Weatherman2020]

Or the ‘Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries’ thread.

From Ms Leung, an academic librarian. She is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.

“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.”

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as **** conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property… When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

Then things get a little weirder.

Whiteness as Collections

 

[Jackson]

Ms. Leung has to get a grip.

When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

That statement is ludicrous. That's like all these white men are trying to erase the voices of albinos. Common sense alert: People of different cultures can write about things that cross the color boundary and is applicable to all. And to condemn the white man for writi ng so many books is egregious because the albinos ( or blacks) haven't written many books interesting to a broad audience.

 

[McRocket]

Who the **** is Sophia Leung?

All I can find is she is some 85 year old, retired Canadian politician who held no posts of great importance.

So posting the random thoughts from blogs of relatively obscure people is worthy of 'Current Events'?

Okaaaaay.

What's next...starting threads about Trump's bowel movements?

 

[Mac1958]

Well, now that we are effectively divided by skin color via Identity Politics, we may as well get used to this.

It won't be changing.

 

[McRocket]

Well, now that we are effectively divided by skin color via Identity Politics, we may as well get used to this.

It won't be changing.

Oh come on now.

The OP 'article' appears to be a blog post from a Canadian semi-nobody.

It's hardly relevant to American politics.

 

[night_son]

Or the ‘Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries’ thread.

From Ms Leung, an academic librarian. She is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.

“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.”

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as **** conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property… When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

Then things get a little weirder.

Whiteness as Collections

What a joke ha, ha. "White dudes" also built not only our modern Western Civilization, they also built all of its ancient precursor foundations. Thus Ms. Leung can **** right off.

 

[martybegan]

Or the ‘Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries’ thread.

From Ms Leung, an academic librarian. She is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.

“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.”

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as **** conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property… When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

Then things get a little weirder.

Whiteness as Collections

Assuming via the last name that Ms Leung has some Chinese ancestry, it's kind of ironic for her to lambaste the lack of diverse materials when she's linked via race to the people that brought us the Cultural Revolution, which saw the destruction of priceless Chinese items and knowledge deemed non-revolutionary.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Her insane opinion is just as relevant as yours. More in fact.

 

[OldLady]

Or the ‘Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries’ thread.

From Ms Leung, an academic librarian. She is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.

“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.”

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as **** conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property… When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

Then things get a little weirder.

Whiteness as Collections

This issue has been around for fifty years. Discrimination via the "old white men canon." No women, no black folk, no Native Americans, no Asian perspectives. It used to be that the overwhelming perspective we learned through English literature was that of white men, often from many centuries before. That has improved over the years, starting with including female authors. It was feminists who first brought it to our attention.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

What's next...starting threads about Trump's bowel movements?

That kinda thing is from your side.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Or the ‘Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries’ thread.

From Ms Leung, an academic librarian. She is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.

“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.”

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as **** conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property… When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

Then things get a little weirder.

Whiteness as Collections

This issue has been around for fifty years. Discrimination via the "old white men canon." No women, no black folk, no Native Americans, no Asian perspectives. It used to be that the overwhelming perspective we learned through English literature was that of white men, many centuries before. That has improved over the years, starting with including female authors. It was feminists who first brought it to our attention.

You forgot to mention the Crusades. Never forget to mention the Crusades in rebuttals like that.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Well, now that we are effectively divided by skin color via Identity Politics, we may as well get used to this.

It won't be changing.

Oh come on now.

The OP 'article' appears to be a blog post from a Canadian semi-nobody.

It's hardly relevant to American politics.

Yes, no Democrat ever tries to divide people by skin color.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Or the ‘Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries’ thread.

From Ms Leung, an academic librarian. She is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.

“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.”

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as **** conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property… When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

Then things get a little weirder.

Whiteness as Collections

Assuming via the last name that Ms Leung has some Chinese ancestry, it's kind of ironic for her to lambaste the lack of diverse materials when she's linked via race to the people that brought us the Cultural Revolution, which saw the destruction of priceless Chinese items and knowledge deemed non-revolutionary.

The destruction of China and the rise of Mao and the resulting slaughter of 80 million Chinese is a feature, not a bug, in her highly educated mind.

 

[OldLady]

Or the ‘Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries’ thread.

From Ms Leung, an academic librarian. She is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.

“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.”

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as **** conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property… When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

Then things get a little weirder.

Whiteness as Collections

This issue has been around for fifty years. Discrimination via the "old white men canon." No women, no black folk, no Native Americans, no Asian perspectives. It used to be that the overwhelming perspective we learned through English literature was that of white men, many centuries before. That has improved over the years, starting with including female authors. It was feminists who first brought it to our attention.

You forgot to mention the Crusades. Never forget to mention the Crusades in rebuttals like that.

?
It's not a rebuttal, either.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Or the ‘Don’t Oppress My People With Your Public Libraries’ thread.

From Ms Leung, an academic librarian. She is unhappy that public libraries in the US, a white-majority culture with a white-majority history, tend to have, among other things, lots of books by authors with pale skin. This, we’re told, is an “interesting mini-eureka moment” that our Queen of Intersectional Rumination feels compelled to share. When Ms Leung discovers that public libraries in China and South Korea have quite a few books by Chinese and Korean authors, I’m sure she’ll be equally aghast. Every bit as offended.

“Our library collections, because they are written mostly by straight white men, are a physical manifestation of white men ideas taking up all the space in our library stacks. Pause here and think about this.”

Ms Leung airs her distaste for “white men ideas” – as if they had been uniform across continents and throughout history – while reminiscing about attending a “white AF conference” two years earlier. I was unsure what the “AF” might refer to and searched for some literary or scholarly explanation. It then occurred to me that a “white AF conference” is, to borrow the woke vernacular, a white as **** conference. Which is how not-at-all-racist academic librarians convey their thoughts, apparently.

“If you look at any United States library’s collection, especially those in higher education institutions, most of the collections (books, journals, archival papers, other media, etc.) are written by white dudes writing about white ideas, white things, or ideas, people, and things they stole from POC and then claimed as white property… When most of our collections filled with this so-called “knowledge,” it continues to validate only white voices and perspectives and erases the voices of people of colour.”

Then things get a little weirder.

Whiteness as Collections

Assuming via the last name that Ms Leung has some Chinese ancestry, it's kind of ironic for her to lambaste the lack of diverse materials when she's linked via race to the people that brought us the Cultural Revolution, which saw the destruction of priceless Chinese items and knowledge deemed non-revolutionary.

The destruction of China and the rise of Mao and the resulting slaughter of 80 million Chinese is a feature, not a bug, in her highly educated mind.

You mean when "some people did something"?