flacaltenn
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Yeppers.. Math, science, history all racist. Peter Pan and Speedy Gonzalez all racists. Global Warming (according to AOC and Klaus Schwab at World Economic Forum) is even caused by systemic racism.. WHAT COULD BE WORSE??? I thought the list was ALREADY tough enough to solve this problem.. Now a bunch of white supremacists are designing RACIST automatic soap dispensers?
What comes to mind when you hear the term systemic racism? Perhaps Jim Crow-era laws or banks’ redlining policies?
Well, I’ve got a new one you can add to the list: soap dispensers.
Yes, you read that correctly. According to a recent online debate on “systemic racism” put on by the Bruin Republicans that I attended, soap dispensers are proof that white people are systemically racist against black people, according to some of my peers.
But it’s not just any dispensers, mind you. It’s those high-tech automatic ones. The reason is simple. As one UCLA student claimed during the debate, automatic soap dispensers “don’t see her hands” due to the dark pigment of her skin. As another student reiterated, soap dispensers are racist because they force “black and brown bodies” to show their palms — “the only light areas of the skin” — in order to get soap out.
I’m not joking.
First of all, let me just debunk the basis of this claim: for anyone who doesn’t know, the sensors on soap dispensers don’t see human hands; they don’t have eyes. They work using a simple device called a PIR sensor that recognizes infrared light, which is emitted by all people, regardless of color (as long as they’re not dead). Also, I don’t know about you, but those darn things never work for me. I can’t remember how many times I’ve banged on one to try to get soap out (yet it never occurred to me to blame anti-Semitism as the cause).
But I digress. The point here isn’t how a soap dispenser works. It’s the idea that students at UCLA actually thought that they were designed with white supremacy in mind.
At this point, all I got left is a theory that MOST of things on the list of systemic racism is just a MOCKERY of the few IMPORTANT things on the list THAT DO MATTER !!!!
Why is this? I have a go-to answer.. This nonsense creeps in to affect our culture and national unity from folks who DO NOT KNOW and DO NOT CARE -- how things work.. Dont care about statistics, or science or engineering or prevailing medical or economic wisdom -- they just EMOTE.. And feel ZERO shame making pronouncements like this even when they are ridiculed for it..
You're killing support for the cause with this stupid petty crap.. And MOST PEOPLE -- including MOST Black people -- know this.. Might be time to THINK and RESEARCH -- before ya add any new stuff to the list of systemically racist things...
Students claim soap dispensers are proof of systemic racism. Here’s my rebuttal. | The College Fix
OPINION: Why systemic racism is akin to a conspiracy theory.
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What comes to mind when you hear the term systemic racism? Perhaps Jim Crow-era laws or banks’ redlining policies?
Well, I’ve got a new one you can add to the list: soap dispensers.
Yes, you read that correctly. According to a recent online debate on “systemic racism” put on by the Bruin Republicans that I attended, soap dispensers are proof that white people are systemically racist against black people, according to some of my peers.
But it’s not just any dispensers, mind you. It’s those high-tech automatic ones. The reason is simple. As one UCLA student claimed during the debate, automatic soap dispensers “don’t see her hands” due to the dark pigment of her skin. As another student reiterated, soap dispensers are racist because they force “black and brown bodies” to show their palms — “the only light areas of the skin” — in order to get soap out.
I’m not joking.
First of all, let me just debunk the basis of this claim: for anyone who doesn’t know, the sensors on soap dispensers don’t see human hands; they don’t have eyes. They work using a simple device called a PIR sensor that recognizes infrared light, which is emitted by all people, regardless of color (as long as they’re not dead). Also, I don’t know about you, but those darn things never work for me. I can’t remember how many times I’ve banged on one to try to get soap out (yet it never occurred to me to blame anti-Semitism as the cause).
But I digress. The point here isn’t how a soap dispenser works. It’s the idea that students at UCLA actually thought that they were designed with white supremacy in mind.
At this point, all I got left is a theory that MOST of things on the list of systemic racism is just a MOCKERY of the few IMPORTANT things on the list THAT DO MATTER !!!!
Why is this? I have a go-to answer.. This nonsense creeps in to affect our culture and national unity from folks who DO NOT KNOW and DO NOT CARE -- how things work.. Dont care about statistics, or science or engineering or prevailing medical or economic wisdom -- they just EMOTE.. And feel ZERO shame making pronouncements like this even when they are ridiculed for it..
You're killing support for the cause with this stupid petty crap.. And MOST PEOPLE -- including MOST Black people -- know this.. Might be time to THINK and RESEARCH -- before ya add any new stuff to the list of systemically racist things...