{"id":421776,"date":"2021-04-14T14:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=421776"},"modified":"2021-04-14T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:58:34","slug":"michigan-state-university-teaching-conference-includes-discussions-segregated-by-race-with-white-people-forced-to-accept-their-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-state-university-teaching-conference-includes-discussions-segregated-by-race-with-white-people-forced-to-accept-their-white-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State University Teaching Conference Includes Discussions Segregated By Race, With White People Forced To Accept Their \u2018White Privilege\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fmichigan-state-university-teaching-conference-includes-discussions-segregated-by-race-with-white-people-forced-to-accept-their-white-privilege%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=421776&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1906.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Michigan State University spring conference on \u201cteaching, learning, and student success\u201d will include woke breakout sessions as well as discussions segregated by race.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, scheduled for early May, includes <a href=\"https:\/\/aan.msu.edu\/teaching-learning\/spring-conference-on-teaching-learning-and-student-success\/spring-conference-on-teaching-learning-and-student-success-schedule-last-updated-04-08-21\/\">progressively named presentations<\/a> like \u201cCrip Methodologies in Feminist Theory as Anti-Racist Pedagogy\u201d and \u201cTrauma Informed Teaching Strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/aan.msu.edu\/teaching-learning\/spring-conference-on-teaching-learning-and-student-success\/#Affinity_Group_Invitation\">website<\/a> for the event currently shows no mention of the segregated sessions, but an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/kDCm8\">archived version<\/a> of the website shows the segregation was a key selling point of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>The website contains a section of what\u2019s new to conference this year. Previously, the first bullet point on the list was for \u201cAffinity Groups for conversation within identity groups.\u201d Just below the list was a description of the affinity groups, which read:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>We invite attendees to participate in an affinity group during the Student Success Spring Conference. Affinity (or caucus) groups provide spaces for people to work within their own identity groups. To advance racial equity, there is work for white people and people of color to do separately and together. For white people, an affinity group provides time and space to work explicitly and intentionally on understanding white culture and white privilege and to increase one\u2019s critical analysis around these concepts. For people of color, a caucus is a place to work with peers to address the impact of racism, to interrupt experiences of internalized racism, and to create a space for healing and working for individual and collective liberation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There will be an affinity group for white folx [sic] and an affinity group for people of color. The focus of the affinity groups will align with the theme of our featured keynote speakers listed below. Each group will be led by trained facilitators to engage in dialogue utilizing a set of prompts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As written, the affinity groups do not appear to be mandatory, but their inclusion is the latest example of segregation in higher education, where white people are explicitly told they must accept their inherent racism while people of color allowed to discuss their own alleged victimization.<\/p>\n<p>Event organizers did not respond to a Daily Wire request for information prior to press time.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/college-in-portland-segregated-first-year-students-by-race-for-mandatory-orientation-sessions\">reported<\/a>, Lewis &amp; Clark College in Portland, Oregon segregated first-year students by race and provided them different orientation sessions accordingly. Just as with Michigan State University, Lewis &amp; Clark used affinity groups to segregate students by identity.<\/p>\n<p>As the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/investigation-portlands-lewis-clark-college-mandates-racial-segregation-in-orientation-programming\/\">reported<\/a>, the college partnered with Race Talks, a \u201csocial justice activism\u201d group, to run a mandatory orientation workshop on race&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/lewis-clark-segregated-zoom-orientation-page\/\">titled<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cEngage for Racial Justice.\u201d The workshop used \u201caffinity groups as a way to create safe spaces for people to speak openly and honestly about race and racism.\u201d Students were required to identify themselves by race and were given three options: black, Indigenous\/people of color, and white. They were then separated into different Zoom sessions for what FIRE described as \u201cseparate educational experiences,\u201d which unlawfully limited \u201ctheir ability within the program to engage with students of different races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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