University Students Reject ‘Objective Truth’ As ‘Racist’

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Students claim that truth and facts are a 'white supremacy myth'

A group of U.S. students have demanded that the President abolish ‘facts’ and ‘truth’ from the syllabus due to the fact that they are inherently ‘racist’. 

Students at the Claremont McKenna Colleges have issued a strongly worded letter, warning that objective truth is merely a social construct, invented by racists to “attempt to silence oppressed peoples.”

Breitbart.com reports:

The letter came in response to Pomona College President David Oxtoby’s affirmation of commitment to free speech and intellectual diversity following the chaos that ensued during a lecture featuring Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald. Student protesters derailed her lecture on the rise of anti-police attitudes by banging on windows and shouting, “F*ck the police,” and “Black Lives Matter.” Campus security ultimately forced MacDonald to livestream her lecture from a near-empty room across campus.

“Protest has a legitimate and celebrated place on college campuses,” Oxtoby wrote, offering a condemnation of the conduct of the students who disrupted the event. “What we cannot support is the act of preventing others from engaging with an invited speaker. Our mission is founded upon the discovery of truth, the collaborative development of knowledge and the betterment of society.”

Students at Pomona College, one of the schools in the consortium of Claremont McKenna Colleges, took issue with Oxtoby’s statement and drafted a letter in response that was signed by students at the other colleges as well.

“Free speech, a right many freedom movements have fought for, has recently become a tool appropriated by hegemonic institutions. It has not just empowered students from marginalized backgrounds to voice their qualms and criticize aspects of the institution, but it has given those who seek to perpetuate systems of domination a platform to project their bigotry,” the students wrote.

“Thus, if ‘our mission is founded upon the discovery of truth,’” the students continued, “how does free speech uphold that value?”

Immediately dismissing the possibility that listening to MacDonald’s lecture could widen their perspective, the students went on to explain how objective truth is a concept devised by “white supremacists” in an “attempt to silence oppressed peoples.”

Historically, white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of ‘subjectivity vs. objectivity’ as a means of silencing oppressed peoples. The idea that there is a single truth–’the Truth’–is a construct of the Euro-West that is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment, which was a movement that also described Black and Brown people as both subhuman and impervious to pain. This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny. The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples.

The students go on to claim that Heather MacDonald is “ignorant of interlocking systems of domination that produce the lethal conditions under which oppressed peoples are forced to live,” which is an explicit reference to the concept of intersectionality, an increasingly popular theory of oppression which conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan recently called a “religion.”

5 Comments

  1. ” Anyone who shirks the labors, sacrifices and dangers that his people must undergo is a coward. But no less a coward is a man or woman who betrays the principles of thought to material interests, who for example, is willing to let the holders of power decide how much is two times two. To sacrifice intellectual integrity, Love of Truth, The Laws and Methods of Thought to any other interest, even that of the Fatherland is treason. When in the battle of interests and slogans the truth, like the individual is in danger of being de-valued, disfigured and trampled underfoot, our one duty is to resist and to save the truth for that is our highest article of faith. Hermann Hesse, Reflections pg 5

  2. See if you can get them to pull that tape over their noses, too.
    Depopulation agenda – first spray them from the sky and contaminate the food to make them insane, then phase two will be easy.
    Sad truth. Almost no body cares.

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