This is a trigger warning — this article will be politically incorrect and will challenge your opinions rather than confirm your biases, please return to your troll-free safe spaces.
Soraya Chemaly wrote in Time on Tuesday that Americans need to alter the way they speak about diversity. She and the mob that supports her must police the way free people think, act, and speak as to not offend anyone.
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After running down a list of protests that occurred at the University of Missouri, including how she and other protestors were more emboldened when college professors cancelled class in solidarity:
In reality, by canceling class, Smith validated the mob mentality.
Chemaly stated the protests as well as the creation of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and speech codes were all critiques of white male privilege that permeates “campuses, legal, cultural, technical, media and educational norms, the subjectivity of straight, white, educated men of a certain class is presented,misleadingly, as neutral and objective.”
She said that any conversation about diversity focuses on people who’s lives are made worse by discrimination.
“White male dominance” controls “80% of Congress, 78% of state political executives, 75% of state legislators,84% of mayors of the top 100 cities, 85% of corporate executive officers,100% of CEOS of Wall Street firms, 95% of Fortune 500 CEOs, 73% of tenured professors, 64% of newsroom staffers, 97% of heads of venture capital firms, 90% of tech jobs in Silicon Valley, 97% of owners of television and radio licenses, 87% of police departments and 68% of US Circuit Court Judges.”
Unfortunately for Chemaly, many of her statistics were just embarrassing and flat out false.
While Congress is 80 percent male and 80 percent white, it is only made up 67 percent of white men. The House and Senate combined have 108 women, 28 black men, 29 hispanic men, 7 asian men, 2 American-Indian men, and 361 white men.
She continued to use incorrect sources throughout her piece, for instance claiming men make up 64 percent of newsroom staffers, but that does not account for the percentage of minority men. Adjusting for averages provided by Women’s Media Center, white men are probably at 57 percent of newsroom staffers.
Throughout her entire pieces, she combined races and gender — either using all whites or all men — to widely misreport the truth.
Misconstruing facts and poorly cited sources are signs of the weakness behind the protestor’s argument.
She asks why we don’t talk about privilege in this way? Why don’t we speak about how whites are advantage instead of how some minorities are disadvantaged? Why don’t we dismantle the racism and sexism that was built into our nation since it’s founding?
Well, because Chemaly is a hot load of bull built on lies she saw while looking at Tumblr memes.
Why don’t we have an open conversation about race? Because it would violate Chemaly’s safe space.
