DEI ideology creates racism

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What’s your favorite description of White people?

Is it “snow pigs?” Or perhaps “saltine cracker?” Perhaps “unseasoned chicken?” or “colonizer?” I kinda like “ku klux Karen,”  although “neanderthal monkey” and “failed abortions” strike me as rather nasty.

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Those are just some of the 200 slurs directed at White people in a group chat that took place in an Auburn University Black Student Union (BSU) Groupme that was shared with Turning Point USA by a BSU member who was fed up with the racism directed at his fellow students.

Auburn University has more or less confirmed the authenticity of the transcripts, acknowledging that it is investigating the matter.

Auburn University’s Black Student Union (BSU) has been exposed for a Groupme chat that contains racist comments aimed at white students on campus.

A whistleblower from the BSU shared the contents of the union’s group chat after concerns that the group was engaging in racist behavior and harassment. The messages include numerous comments by students making fun of white people as a whole, and the group created a Google document for members to create new racial slurs for white people. The document includes over 200 anti-white slurs like, “snow pigs,” “saltine cracker,” “unseasoned chicken, “colonizer,” “cotton ball, ”ku klux karen,” “neanderthal monkey,” and “failed abortions.”

Members of the BSU openly bragged about the names they created on the list, and mocked white people repeatedly. According to the whistleblower who is a member of the union, the group has a history of being discriminatory of members who do not share the same opinions as them. They also expressed that they shared the contents of the group chat because they wanted to take a stand against blatant, anti-white racism.

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While the actions of the students involved in the chat are their own responsibility, it’s difficult to argue that this sort of thing wasn’t entirely predictable. The “anti-racism” movement and DEI ideology are filled with horrible slanders directed at White people, and all these students are steeped in the ideology from their earliest school days.

Why would they even believe that having and expressing the vilest opinions about their fellow students is anything but wholly socially acceptable? Their professors may not use these particular slurs, but they certainly express the sentiments behind them.

It’s not just Whites to whom this kind of hatred is directed; Black students who don’t share the ideology are labeled as toadies of the White vermin and anti-Black slurs are acceptable in such circles as long as they are directed at deviationists from the ideology. It is common to use anti-Black racial slurs against conservative Blacks, and perfectly acceptable among liberals.

The document, titled “Creaker Names,” contained seven pages of a single-column list of racial slurs. 1819 News obtained a copy of the document from Heard. According to Urban Dictionary, “Creaker” is another word for “cracker,” used particularly when referring to an old white man.

Some of the names on this list are labeled “favorite” in parenthesis, such as “Sour Cream Citizen,” “bleach demons,” “sugar sardines,” “dandruff demons,” “elbow crust,” “dandruff paper,” “copy and paste,” “skin stealers,” “deformed dna,” “decomposing form of humanity,” “delusional lice,” “bobble head white,” “ashy, but you can’t see it,” “untamed beasts,” “crest 3-D whitening strips” and several more.

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I suspect that for most students involved in the creation of the racial slur list, it was more an exercise in juvenile humor than anything else. There appears to be no plotting of violence or anything similar.

Yet if the roles were reversed… Worse, normalizing this sort of thing leads not just to college students competing with each other to come up with derogatory names for others, but also nasty divisions that eventually express themselves in BLM-type destruction.

That’s certainly the worry of the whistleblower, who as a conservative Black student was ostracized for dissenting from the prevailing narrative.

The whistleblower told TPUSA last week that he got tired of “anti white racism shown in the left.”

“I have two other black friends who [are no longer members of the BSU] because they bullied them out for having different opinions than what was acceptable,” he said. “BSU needs to learn to be more welcoming and inclusive to the white community. The BSU motto is ‘unity through education,’ and they are currently failing at that.”

“Unity through education.” Yeah, right. The antiracist movement is all about unity. Uh-huh. It doesn’t seem that way to this particular White “skin stealer.”

Auburn claims it is investigating the matter, and we will see if anything comes of it. I would be pleasantly surprised if it did, although I am forgiving enough of college students to hope nobody gets expelled for contributing to the list. Auburn may let the students slide because the Groupme chat officially sponsored by the university was only used to spread the list, not create it. This is quite a technicality, and they clearly haven’t settled on their full response yet.

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“Administrators have since learned that the GroupMe chat in question is titled ‘AU Connect: Brought to you by The Throwdown’ and includes hundreds of people from multiple universities,” spokesperson Jennifer Adams told The Fix on Monday. “These comments did not occur on the Black Student Union GroupMe nor as part of any recognized Auburn University organization channel.”

Listed slurs include “yeast maggots,” “mutated vermin” and “snow roaches,” according to the list, obtained by 1819 News from Heard.

What the students did was disgusting and wrong, but hardly a crime. And honestly, it is in line with the general tone of the average African American Studies curriculum and the bestselling antiracism books. Also the intent behind the 1619 Project, for that matter. The New York Times would never indulge in crude name calling, but they certainly promote all the sentiments expressed by the slurs.

The double standard rankles. If a group of White students had produced and/or distributed such a list their lives would be ruined, regardless of whether the intent was juvenile humor or the spreading of hatred. Personally, I think the proper response in both types of cases is firmly reminding everyone that such behavior is unacceptable. There should be public shaming, but not expulsion or ruining people’s lives.

Some things are unforgivable. Nasty, even disgusting jokes shouldn’t be in that category. If Richard Pryor might get a laugh using one of these slurs then perhaps we should forgive others.

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The people who really should be punished? The people spreading the DEI ideology. Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone.

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John Stossel 8:30 AM | November 17, 2024
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