I went to my old alma mater, Ryerson University, to get educated about purported special advantages inherent to caucasians at a white privilege conference being held there but a funny thing happened on my way to enlightenment when I was deemed persona non-grata and booted out!
If my skin tone grants me automatic special privilege, why was I given the bum’s rush?
In the end, they did us a favour by kicking us out. They spared us from the snooze-fest it surely was and gave us the opportunity to speak to numerous protesters gathered outside the venue.
For the record, I did try to get both sides of the story but many exiting the conference either didn’t want to talk to me or called me names!
I’m pretty much a free speech absolutist and if you want to run such an idiotic race-baiting conference, go for it, but why should taxpayers be on the hook for this racist rubbish?
So glad to see intelligent protesters. Thank God there are still some sane Canadians who will stand up against this poisonous race baiting identity politics.
With apologies to Elton John:
They said, get back, honky cat
Better get to the back of the bus
Well, I quit those days and my privileged ways
And, ooh ooh ooh ooh, oh, change is gonna do me good
They said, get back, honky cat
Better burn your degrees
Well, I quit my pay and my privileged ways
And, oh oh oh oh, oh, change is gonna do me good
They said, stay at home, boy, you gotta tend your betters
Running the univeristy, boy, is going to break your heart
But how can you stay when your heart says no?
How can you stop when your feet say go?
David, you mean you didn’t pull a fire alarm on the way out?
The Web of Oppression taught in the socialist, er, sociology departments at the universities like Ryerson:
https://www.google.com/search?q=web%20of%20oppresion&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
If you happen to have been born able-bodied, a male, and white and, as well. learned to speak English as a child, you are well on your way to being an oppressor with ‘white privilege’. What a bummer!