{"id":2199772,"date":"2024-03-15T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-forces-student-athletes-to-watch-video-saying-all-white-people-are-racist\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:17:29","slug":"college-forces-student-athletes-to-watch-video-saying-all-white-people-are-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-forces-student-athletes-to-watch-video-saying-all-white-people-are-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"College Mandates Student Athletes View Video Stating All Whites Carry Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-forces-student-athletes-to-watch-video-saying-all-white-people-are-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2199772&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Davidson\u2062 College&#8217;s Required Video Sparks Heated Debate Among\u200d Alumni<\/h2>\n<p>Controversy has struck Davidson College \u200din North Carolina, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-challenges-biden-transgender-sports-policy\/\" title=\"Sen. Rand Paul challenges Biden transgender sports policy\">student athletes<\/a> were recently <strong>obligated to engage \u2062with provocative\u2063 content<\/strong> that broad-brushed all white individuals\u200c as inherently racist, while stating that people of color couldn&#8217;t harbor racist \u200bsentiments. This instructional \u2063approach has shaken the college\u2064 community, inciting alumni to demand a more balanced conversation\u2062 around these sensitive topics.<\/p>\n<h3>The Video at the Center of Controversy<\/h3>\n<p>The film in question, &#8220;I\u2019m Not Racist&#8230; Am I?&#8221;, was shown\u2063 outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-schools-struggling-to-comply-with-state-law-mandating-armed-security-officers-reports\/\" title=\"Texas schools are having difficulty meeting the requirement of having armed security officers, as mandated by state law.\">regular school hours<\/a>, raising concerns about the content and its timing. It included a\u200c segment where an Asian student posited that racism can emanate from minorities toward white people as well. This was countered by a facilitator \u200cwho labeled such behavior as &#8220;bigotry&#8221; instead \u2063of racism and\u200c claimed that <strong>only white individuals can exert racism \u2064due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvey-weinstein-appeals-conviction-blames-me-too-movement-for-conviction\/\" title=\"Harvey Weinstein appeals conviction, blames 'Me Too' for it\">systemic power imbalances<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo, are\u200c you saying that all white people are racist?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYes.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe would also say that it\u2019s only white people that could be racist, \u200bthat are racist.\u201d<br \/>\nYou have to watch this clip from a \u2063film Davidson College \u200crequired all its student-athletes to watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q0STbgZNCB\">pic.twitter.com\/Q0STbgZNCB<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dialogues in the film\u200d left students \u2063mostly nonreactive, yet it&#8217;s evident that the message\u2062 was designed to be thought-provoking, if not confrontational.<\/p>\n<h3>Alumni Push Back<\/h3>\n<p>The Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought\u200d and\u200b Discourse (DFTD), a collective of college alumni championing free speech, spoke to impacted students who \u200c <strong>expressed offense at the film&#8217;s divisive nature.<\/strong> While open to discussions of racism among peers, they believe that such conversations should \u200dnot be dominated \u200bby extreme viewpoints without room \u2062for critical evaluation or alternative perspectives. \u2062DFTD initiated a petition to advocate for\u2063 academic \u200cfreedom and halt the\u2064 integration of \u2062controversial &#8216;anti-oppression&#8217; \u2062concepts into academic \u200csyllabi where they seem\u2062 irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>The petition echoes\u200c the ethos handed down \u200bby the American Association of University Professors, underscoring the importance of maintaining academic content within the realms\u200b of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shadowy-soros-linked-group-pushes-biden-admin-to-crack-down-on-gas-powered-lawn-equipment-using-1972-law\/\" title=\"Soros-backed group urges Biden to regulate gas-powered lawn equipment with 1972 law\">relevant subject matter<\/a> and avoiding \u200dcompulsory political or ideological alignments.<\/p>\n<h3>The College&#8217;s Position<\/h3>\n<p>In response to the uproar, Davidson College conveyed to The College Fix that \u200dthe video served to present various perspectives to the students. They emphasize\u2063 that <strong>college is an \u200carena for encountering nuanced ideas<\/strong>, suggesting\u2063 that assignments\u2063 don&#8217;t equate to endorsements of every concept presented. Instead, the experience should foster intellectual exploration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/half-of-likely-voters-expect-cheating-will-undermine-fall-elections\/\" title=\"Half of Likely Voters Expect Cheating Will Undermine Fall Elections\">critical debate<\/a>, and the accumulation of broader knowledge and \u2064understanding.<\/p>\n<p>In the throes of \u200bthese discussions, what remains paramount is the \u2062integrity of the educational environment, where ideas can intermingle freely\u2064 \u2014 challenging, \u2064yet never alienating, each and \u2063every student on their quest for insightful enlightenment and mutual respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davidson College alumni urge a curriculum review after student athletes were made to watch a video labeling all whites as inherently racist, and asserting people of color cannot be racist, as reported by The College Fix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2199773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-94589454-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-94589454-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}