{"id":244734,"date":"2016-05-20T05:29:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scripps-unofficial-survival-guide-claims-hatred-of-white-people-is-legitimate-response-to-oppression\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T05:29:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T05:29:04","slug":"scripps-unofficial-survival-guide-claims-hatred-of-white-people-is-legitimate-response-to-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scripps-unofficial-survival-guide-claims-hatred-of-white-people-is-legitimate-response-to-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Scripps &#039;Unofficial Survival Guide&#039; claims &#039;hatred of white people&#039; is &#039;legitimate response to oppression&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Last summer, two Scripps College students <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippscollege.edu\/news\/features\/unofficial-scripps-college-survival-guide\" target=\"_new\">spent approximately 500 hours<\/a> creating a 217-page \u201c <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrippscollege.edu\/news\/features\/unofficial-scripps-college-survival-guide\" target=\"_new\">Unofficial Scripps Survival Guide<\/a>\u201d intended to help new students acclimate to the college, with lengthy discussions of topics ranging from food and money management to gender identity, race, and privilege.<\/p>\n<p>The authors state that the term \u201cPreferred Gender Pronoun\u201d (PGP) should be replaced with \u201cGender Pronoun\u201d to avoid offending students whose gender identity differs from their biological sex.<\/p>\n<div id=\"large_quote\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>\u201cAnger is a legitimate response to oppression, as is sadness, fear, frustration, exhaustion, and a general distaste or hatred of white people.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 Tweet This<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhile it may seem new and positive, PGP is actually not a good thing,\u201d they write. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with Gender Pronouns! However once we say \u2018preferred\u2019 we\u2019re invalidating the entire idea. How people identify is how they identify; it is not a \u2018preference.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another section dedicated to being a \u201cTrans* Ally\u201d prompts new Scripps students to ask for each of their peers\u2019 gender pronouns in order to avoid unwittingly enforcing the gender binary when they interact with others. \u201cEnacting a life of accountability and ownership over your own domination and privileges is the only way you can exhibit allyship,\u201d the guide adds.<\/p>\n<p>The Scripps Survival Guide defines \u201cWhite Privilege\u201d as \u201cthe set of unearned benefits white people gain as a result of systematic racism and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/scripps-unofficial-survival-guide-claims-hatred-of-white-people-is-legitimate-response-to-oppression\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, two Scripps College students spent approximately 500 hours creating a 217-page \u201c Unofficial Scripps Survival Guide\u201d intended to help new students acclimate to the college, with lengthy discussions of topics ranging from food and money management to gender identity, race, and privilege. The authors state that the term \u201cPreferred Gender Pronoun\u201d (PGP) should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}