Oh. My. Goodness…
9Mar10
Campus Discussion: Diversity
By: Barry Belmont
By: Barry Belmont
How is the “debate” about the supposedly “racist” skit done by a comedy troupe here in Reno even still an issue? No person involved is a racist. It seems that no person involved has been offended. No one cares. This. Shouldn’t. Be. An. Issue. But it seems to be and to prove a point I’m going [...]
23Feb10
Racist Comedy at UNR…
By: Barry Belmont
No, no, we’re not talking about the ever-present farce that are diversity initiatives, we’re talking about a recent comedy skit performed for the ASUN Leadership conference. Apparently this troupe did a skit about Barack Obama and one of the actors, to impersonate him, painted his face black. This, many people seem to think, is a [...]
By: Barry Belmont
Dear Gracie. Diagnosis Part I. The Problem. What is that thing called where one points out one’s faults in another person? It’s taught in Psych 101 classes. Oh what’s it called? From Wikipedia: Psychological projection [...] is the unconscious act of denial of a person’s own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to [...]
By: Barry Belmont
Dear Gracie, I read what you write sometimes. Whether it’s on the Sagebrush website or your failed Senate blog or (more recently) on the VisLupiGang’s blog, I read your stuff. I read your stuff and I am appalled. Appalled sometimes at the grammar and syntactical structure. Appalled sometimes at the use of overly passive aggressive [...]
By: John Russell
Looking back on the brief experience I had with ASUN, I can’t help but laugh when the student officers and bureaucrats alike would have entire meetings trying to determine the reasons why people on campus do not become more involved with their affairs. Ignore for a moment their tarnished superiority complex or why the Students [...]
By: Barry Belmont
This is not a joke. Try, as an academic exercise, to see why we think diversity initiatives are both counterproductive and a contemporary form of racism/xenophobia/prejudice of all kind. It tries to teach that You + I > Them for our “enlightened” thinking. This is straight from the Sagebrush whose recent issue we will probably [...]
By: John Russell
An undeniable premise in programs and laws which are designed to support a class of people differently than that of another is this: “You are too weak to support yourself, so let me help you help yourself.” Such programs imply that those of diversity (color, creed, orientation, ethnicity, sex, etc) are too weak to handle [...]
