{"id":475277,"date":"2021-05-05T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=475277"},"modified":"2021-05-05T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:20:58","slug":"affinity-groups-the-lefts-new-term-for-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/affinity-groups-the-lefts-new-term-for-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"Affinity Groups: The Left\u2019s New Term For Segregation"},"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\">16<\/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%2Faffinity-groups-the-lefts-new-term-for-segregation%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=475277&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\/05\/GettyImages-200369844-001-1-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If ever a Leftist policy has an unpopular term or connotation attached to it, progressives simply rename it and pretend things are different.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion turns people off? Call it \u201cchoice.\u201d Illegal immigrant sounds bad? Call them \u201cundocumented workers.\u201d People don\u2019t like riots? Call them \u201cpeaceful protests.\u201d No one supports a death tax? Call it an \u201cestate tax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the latest examples can be found in education, the business world, and government training programs: Affinity groups.<\/p>\n<p>On its face, there\u2019s nothing seemingly wrong with the term. Affinity groups have been around for centuries, typically involving people who naturally organize into groups based on shared characteristics and interests. Think of the Freemasons or sororities to something more nebulous like your friend group. People have been sorting themselves into groups for as long as humans have existed.<\/p>\n<p>But a certain type of affinity group has risen in the past decade or so, one that isn\u2019t about people coming together, but about separating people based on one specific characteristic: Skin color. This used to be called segregation, but that term rightfully brings up negative feelings, so it has now been rebranded under the guise of affinity groups.<\/p>\n<p>One can tell that the basis for the separation is nefarious when one skin color is singled out for shaming and derision. The Daily Wire has covered numerous examples of this. At the end of the Trump administration, the Department of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-education-department-decides-racially-segregated-groups-are-not-discriminatory\">determined<\/a> that \u201caffinity groups\u201d separated by race were a form of segregation. As The Daily Wire\u2019s Chrissy Clark explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>Racial \u201caffinity groups\u201d are used in both K-12 and higher education institutions across the nation. They separate students and staff by race in hopes of giving black people a \u201csafe space\u201d to discuss their experiences with racism while providing a separate space for white people to learn about their \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A whistleblower teacher in Chicago filed a complaint about the affinity groups in the Evanston-Skokie School District and the U.S. Department of Education began an investigation, finding that the school district segregated white administrators and administrators of color for certain training programs. The school district had also directed staff to consider a student\u2019s race during disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>The Education Department\u2019s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found the policies discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese materials would have led students to be treated differently based on their race, depriving them of a class free from racial recrimination and hostility,\u201d OCR enforcement officer Carol Ashley wrote. \u201cSuch treatment has no place in federally-funded programs or activities, nor is it protected by the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration, however, suspended the investigation after President Joe Biden issued an executive order purportedly in the name of equity and gender rights. The actual outcome ended up being the implementation of racist trainings which told white people they were to blame for society\u2019s ills while painting everyone else as victims and ensuring biological men could win women\u2019s sports competitions. (\u201cEquity\u201d and \u201cgender rights\u201d are also used to cover the Left\u2019s discrimination.)<\/p>\n<p>Chicago is not the only place in America instituting similar policies, as Clark wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9.8338108882521\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-university-hosts-white-caucus-meeting\">Elon University<\/a>&nbsp;in North Carolina hosts a weekly \u201cwhite caucus\u201d meeting for white students to \u201cunpack race and systemic oppression.\u201d The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaf.org\/news\/university-of-kentucky-forces-ras-into-segregated-trainings-white-accountability-space\/\">University of Kentucky<\/a>&nbsp;separates its Resident Assistants into training groups based on race. \u201cOne for RAs who identify as Black, Indigenous, Person of Color, and one for RAs who identify as white.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The list goes on. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michigan-state-university-teaching-conference-includes-discussions-segregated-by-race-with-white-people-forced-to-accept-their-white-privilege\">Michigan State University<\/a> offered affinity groups for teachers at a conference that forced white people to accept their \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d Madison West High School in Wisconsin offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wisconsin-high-school-segregated-parents-to-discuss-police-brutality-the-principal-has-now-apologized-sort-of\">segregated Zoom links<\/a> for parents to discuss police brutality. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/minnesota-college-mandates-monthly-anti-racism-training-sessions-segregates-faculty-by-skin-color\">Carleton College<\/a> in Northfield, Minnesota, mandates monthly \u201canti-racism\u201d trainings that separate people by skin color, telling white people they can\u2019t simply not be racist, they must be actively \u201canti-racist\u201d by accepting their implicit bias and white privilege.<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/when-safe-spaces-become-segregation\">wrote<\/a> years ago, colleges and universities were toying with the idea of segregated dorms, calling them \u201csafe spaces\u201d for people of color \u2013 the idea itself planting harmful racism and bias in the minds of students who might think they simply aren\u2019t safe around white people.<\/p>\n<p>America decided decades ago that segregation was bad, so why do Democrats want to bring it back?<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/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. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ever a Leftist policy has an unpopular term or connotation attached to it, progressives simply rename it and pretend things are different.Abortion turns people off? 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