{"id":348478,"date":"2018-02-16T05:48:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T04:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/whites-not-wanted-is-what-dalhousie-evidently-considers-progressive\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T05:48:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T04:48:39","slug":"whites-not-wanted-is-what-dalhousie-evidently-considers-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/whites-not-wanted-is-what-dalhousie-evidently-considers-progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Whites Not Wanted\u2019 Is What Dalhousie Evidently Considers \u2018Progressive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dalhousie University is looking for a new dean of students but says it is interested only in someone who is \u201cracially visible.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s not what they mean by \u201cracially visible.\u201d What they surely mean is \u201cnon-white.\u201d Or maybe \u201cnon-white\u201d and also \u201cnon-Asian,\u201d since there\u2019s now anxiety in some circles that people of Asian ancestry are over-represented in parts of society, especially the parts that pay well for lots of brain power.<\/p>\n

There is the same lack of clarity with \u201cvisible minority,\u201d the logical opposite of which is \u201cinvisible minority.\u201d There are such things as invisible minorities \u2014 chess players, vegans, gays \u2014 though increasingly many now choose to make themselves visible by their dress, behaviour or lapel pins. But again, the real, intended meaning of \u201cvisible minority\u201d is \u201cnon-white.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a strange thing about identity progressivism: If the cause is so just, the need so compelling and the case for it so clear, why is the language so mealy-mouthed? If you don\u2019t want a white person for your dean of students, and you think that\u2019s a perfectly reasonable position to take, indeed the only reasonable position to take, why not just say \u201cThis job is only open to people who are not white\u201d? Why hide behind an indirect, euphemistic, invented categorization?<\/p>\n

Read the rest at American Renaissance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dalhousie University is looking for a new dean of students but says it is interested only in someone who is \u201cracially visible.\u201d But I\u2019m guessing that\u2019s not what they mean by \u201cracially visible.\u201d What they surely mean is \u201cnon-white.\u201d Or maybe \u201cnon-white\u201d and also \u201cnon-Asian,\u201d since there\u2019s now anxiety in some circles that people of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348478","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\/348478","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}