Beta Of The Year
The funniest part of Charlotte Allen’s very funny report from the Fourteenth Annual White Privilege Conference:
The prize, though, for most self-loathing paleface (“if you are white, and you are occupying this continent, you are macro-aggressive”) went hands down to Paul Gorski, an antiracism professor at George Mason University’s New Century College (and also a “consultant”). Gorski apologized, calling himself a “hypocrite,” for eating factory-farmed chicken (at least in the past—he’s now a vegetarian). He apologized for patronizing the George Mason cafeteria (operated by the food-service behemoth Sodexo, which “pays the lowest legal wages”). He apologized for drinking Coca-Cola. He apologized for animal-testing of products and showed us a slide of a bleeding bunny rabbit. Also, Gorski added, “I got married. I participated in an oppressive tenure system at my university. I used big banks. These are some of the things that make me a racist, a sexist, and a heterosexist.” By the time Gorski got around to apologizing for his sweatshop-manufactured pants and polo shirt, even a few of the water-bottle-danglers sitting behind me started to laugh. “I guess we have to start making our own clothes,” someone joked.
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