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Re: Chicago teacher's 'Problem of Whiteness' course gets postponed after death threats
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Applepees
May 30, 2023, 1:40:05 AM5/30/23
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Gronk <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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> She looks like a wigger whore anyway.
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A woke class at the University of Chicago called “The Problem of
Whiteness” has been put on hold after the instructor received
death threats.
Rebecca Journey got the threats and postponed the class until
next spring, according to reports.
Journey says the criticism that the class would lead to “anti-
white hatred” was “disingenuous,” she told the Chicago Sun Times.
“The class approaches whiteness as a problem in the
philosophical sense of an open question … (with) whiteness as an
object of critical inquiry.”
Putting off the course was to give the university time to come
up with a safety plan, she said.
Journey has been accused of “anti-white” racism and subjected to
racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic attacks in her inbox and
on a Twitter thread about the class, she said.
A student named Daniel Schmidt posted about the class on
Twitter, along with Journey’s email address.
“I want to stress that these attacks are the direct consequence
of this student’s targeted cyberbullying campaign,” Journey said.
“This was a malicious attack not just on me as a teacher but on
anti-racist pedagogy writ large.”
On Schmidt’s Twitter profile he describes himself as someone
“exposing insanity at an elite university” and a “Right-wing
college activist”.
Schmidt said he didn’t mean for the criticism and attacks to
happen, according to the Sun Times.
<https://torontosun.com/news/weird/chicago-teachers-problem-of-
whiteness-course-gets-postponed-after-death-threats>
Gronk <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> She looks like a wigger whore anyway.
>
A woke class at the University of Chicago called “The Problem of
Whiteness” has been put on hold after the instructor received
death threats.
Rebecca Journey got the threats and postponed the class until
next spring, according to reports.
Journey says the criticism that the class would lead to “anti-
white hatred” was “disingenuous,” she told the Chicago Sun Times.
“The class approaches whiteness as a problem in the
philosophical sense of an open question … (with) whiteness as an
object of critical inquiry.”
Putting off the course was to give the university time to come
up with a safety plan, she said.
Journey has been accused of “anti-white” racism and subjected to
racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic attacks in her inbox and
on a Twitter thread about the class, she said.
A student named Daniel Schmidt posted about the class on
Twitter, along with Journey’s email address.
“I want to stress that these attacks are the direct consequence
of this student’s targeted cyberbullying campaign,” Journey said.
“This was a malicious attack not just on me as a teacher but on
anti-racist pedagogy writ large.”
On Schmidt’s Twitter profile he describes himself as someone
“exposing insanity at an elite university” and a “Right-wing
college activist”.
Schmidt said he didn’t mean for the criticism and attacks to
happen, according to the Sun Times.
<https://torontosun.com/news/weird/chicago-teachers-problem-of-
whiteness-course-gets-postponed-after-death-threats>
Applepees
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