At Towson Univ., A Student Makes His Case for a White Student Union

[teacoat]

Race has arrived on the front doorstep of Towson University, and it’s a package no one wants to open. This fall Matthew Heimbach, a student at the public university in the Baltimore suburbs proposed starting a white student union. His calls attracted immediate attention; with his cloudy but very emphatic views on race, he’s excellent at courting

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[bleakwinters]

But calling him a racist is like, the worst thing ever, don't you see? We have to protect his poor white man feelings. [/sarcasm]

[keskt]

I'm lookig at this kids facebook- what a charming young man

[astridmyrna]

May God bless the souls of the Confederate dead who died at Sharpsburg today 150 years ago. The cause you fought for was right and just. You are gone.. but not forgotten.

Sounds like a reeeeeeal winner.

[alryssa]

Oh lord

you could fill a bingo card with this much fail

[kitanabychoice]

I don't understand why it's taboo to talk about the fact that white people did some really awful shit in the past. If I have to live with the results of things white people did in the past that marginalized people like me, the least white people could do is own their past and acknowledge they've done wrong. -_-

[teacoat]

And when we do admit to that shit it's couched as "Yeah we did that and we continue to benefit from it but GOD that the was THE PAST and can't we just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT. Living with white guilt is SO HARD, GUYS."

And I used to think that it was just ignorance of how the world really works, which yeah, is true. But isn't it AWFULLY CONVENIENT that everyone (= everyone white) thinks racism is over?

[lickety_split]

"BUT I DIDN'T PERSONALLY DO ANYTHING WRONG Y DO U WANT US NICE MODERN WHITEFOLK TO APOLOGIZE FOR THINGS WE DIDN'T DO???"

[astridmyrna]

Did you stop by my grandparents' house for Thanksgiving last year and never told me?

[koshkabegemot]

Yeeeah, so I want to hermetically seal a cup full of the yellow mucous I keep horking up, mail it to him, and make him drink it. Or find a way to make him smell my stinky ass feet through the computer.

I just . . . did we step through a time warp to the 1940s while I was sleeping?

Last year his fledgling group Youth for Western Civilization pasted posters around Towson with slogans reading “White Pride,” as a test, Heimbach said, of the campus’s tolerance.

[celtic_thistle]

Oh my god, that cat. I'm peeing myself. Actually, this whole comment is perfection.

[koshkabegemot]

I need to start rubbing Vicks or something that smells pleasant on my feet because goddamn. My cat loves my foot funk. Whenever I wear boots in the winter, once I've taken them off, he'll shove his whole body in there and just go nuts and will attack me if I try to take the stinky shoe away. I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

On topic: Seriously, every fucking group on campus caters to white people except for, well, POC clubs. If this guy has his knickers in such a twist, he can always transfer to Bob Jones University.

[beoweasel]

“[The Confederate flag] has never been a symbol of race,” Heimbach said. “Someone who has no connection to Dixie, no connection to the confederacy just doesn’t understand it.”

I was born and raised in the South, I have lived in South Carolina for 27 years. And YES, YES IT IS.

And guess what? You don't have a connection the Confederacy, you don't, the Confederate Government and the veterans that fought in the Civil War died long before your privileged white ass was even born.

What your 'connection is' isn't the Confederacy, its the romanticization of the Confederacy, a re-imagining of the South as a glorious and noble underdog fighting against the oppressive Union government, and trying desperately to hold onto their traditional white society. And you know what? It's still complete and utter bullshit.

[romp]

all this

fetishizing any aspect of history (I'm thinking of the Constitution and the English and the "Classical" eras) seems to be a bad sign

[moonyprof]

And that is too bad, because I teach it. Maybe that's why I don't feel the need to stick Shakespeare and Co. on a pedastal.

[hinoema]

Shakespeare seems to me like the Elizabethan equivalent of a modern PR guy- he just wrote plays to support the Tudors instead of doing commercials.