University of Vermont psychotherapy professor Aaron Kindsvatter is facing backlash from students calling for his resignation after he posted a video on YouTube titled “Racism and the Secular Religion at the University of Vermont.” But Kindsvatter isn’t backing down.
Kindsvatter joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Monday to explain just how dangerous critical race theory is to our society. Specifically, he explained, critical race theory has “frightening” effects on the mental health of our kids — both white children and children of color.
“Children need a particular environment in which to flourish, and it’s an environment where no conditions are placed upon their sense of self-worth,” Kindsvatter said. “You don’t convey to a child that they are good or bad based on what they do. And this ideology [critical race theory], and in particular Kendi’s version of antiracism, establishes very strict parameters of viewing one’s self and other people as other good or evil — but in Kendi’s language, he’s using the terms ‘racist’ or ‘antiracist’.”
Kindsvatter warned that this type of “crude and destructive” thinking will not remain focused on “whiteness,” but will (and in many ways already is) be used to manipulate any group or individual that doesn’t conform to their ideology.
“It is saying that, in order to be an acceptable person, you must first claim fealty to this ideology,” Kindsvatter said. “And I would just add to that, children of color … they are not safe from this either. Because if they don’t toe this line, then … there are lots of interesting names that are being created within academia for them. The one that I’ve just heard recently, that’s come out, is ‘multi-racial whiteness.’ And it’s a way to take a person of color, or a black person, and say, ‘well, you’re just white,’ which is meant to be an insult from that perspective.”
“So, this conversation can get derailed by thinking of this in terms of a ‘white thing’ or a ‘black thing,” he continued. “What this really is, is it’s a racist thing. It’s racism. And racism is contagious. All it needs is a foothold in an air of legitimacy, and then it will flow out into society and be adopted widely, to the detriment of every person. And the University of Vermont, right now, is … presenting this as a form of intellectual refinement. And, right now, it gains legitimacy.”
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This shows that all profs are not liberal scum. Make this one the head of his dept and tell any students that don’t like it to move to red china.
Agree 100%. Uncle Joey and Hunter will see that they are well taken of.
How much do you really know about China? Do you know where he color red comes from? Do you know that China has 51 ethnic minorities and they treat all of them better than we treat our ethnic minorities? All the people whether Han Chinese or ethnic minority get along and respect each other far more than we do here. Truth is, the students would probably enjoy it in China.
What Planet are you on? The Chinese govt is killing a lot of those ethnic minorities daily in an attempt to silence them and too enslave them.
Please—It’s not respect that makes China an ordered society; it’s coercion and conformity, which was the result of a cultural revolution that purged everything antithetical to communist doctrine. Ironically, that’s what’s happening in America today, as Leftists attack and silence anyone who dissents from the prevailing Progressive agenda.
Like the Red Guard in China, academia is turning students into mindless, revolutionaries who unthinkingly adhere to the same Marxist dogma under the guise of equality and equity—or as noted here, Critical Race Theory. I’ll take the inequality of freedom over the equality of servitude all day long.
TLC I am not sure the Uyghurs would agree with you on how well all the ethnic minorities are treated in China.
I see a return to segregation, by choice, and mostly professed by black people.. well, not all black people, just the ignorant who without education or experience want to be CEO’s, and such.
If blacks want a black country, they should move to Africa and be happy.
When the whiteness is all gone, all that will remain will be complete blackness, like Sauron in Mordor.
The worst is yet to come. The pendulum has begun swinging and won’t easily be stopped. Being white is evil according to the progressive left and your children if white, especially males, are being threatened, beat down and brainwashed by a cultural and education system that is hell bent to destroy equality based on ability and performance. If you’re a parent and don’t want your children’s brains destroyed you better wake up.
The problem with Kendi’s definition of racist and his made up term anti-racist is that they themselves are based on racism.
I am against racism. When asked about it or told I should join a protest I respond that I will not speak out against racism until I am free to speak out against all racism. A few years ago, when Black Lives Matter was formed, the leasers of that group couldn’t make a public comment without making racist comments. However, society didn’t want to hear it because there is a racist double-standard as to how to define racism. By Kendi’s redefining racist I am one because I won’t support BLM, but if I explain that I don’t do it because they too are racist then that also makes me a racist.
Systemic racism says that I should either feel guilty for or be held accountable for the actions of other white people. It is a racist concept that one group of racists hides behind in order to condemn anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
The opposite of racist is individualist. There are black people I don’t like. There are white people I don’t like. In both cases it is due to something that the individual has done not the fact that they were born into a specific group. Somebody else assuming that I don’t like someone because of their race is actually more racist on their part than my not liking the person that I don’t like. But the racist-antiracist fallacy that is being promoted allows the true racists to dismiss this and label me a racist.
Exactly. Your comment at the end is true.
I lived in Arizona for over 20 years. Lots of Mexicans. Lots of Mexican neighborhoods. Many nice, honest, genuine Mexicans. I had a number as friends. One of them, every time I visited, his mother tried to feed me. Real nice people.
Then there were Mexican neighborhoods where anyone who was NOT Mexican had better not even enter. Or if they have to go through, it better be in a car, and fast. Oh, and pray your car doesn’t break down in these neighborhoods.
These neighborhoods were full of hateful people, and their hate was directed at everyone NOT Mexican.
So, no, I didn’t hate Mexicans while living there. I had issues with the Mexicans full of Hatred!
The real thing that needs to be considered is that most of the anti-white ideology is being initiated by and supported by whites themselves! In order to bow to the woke culture and the liberal democrat ideology, they are willing to destroy their own race. Is this hilarious or what! White people willing to destroy themselves to be part of a stupid woke culture!