For a mob who just can’t shut the hell up about the Jim Crow laws that were consigned to the dustbin of history nearly 60 years ago, the American left have a strange hankering to bring back racial segregation.
Once upon a time, it was “whites only” drinking fountains: now it’s “POC only spaces”. Once it was “redlining” (abolished even longer ago than Jim Crow): now it’s racially-segregated housing projects and student accommodation.
Nothing is safe from the segregation-happy left. Not even rock-climbing.
Cornell University is defending a new rock-climbing class offered to minority groups.
Among the Ivy League school’s Outdoor Education offerings for the spring 2021 semester was a course called “BIPOC Rock Climbing.” The course description, according to the Cornell Daily Sun, specified that the class was “for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color.”
Which is a very long-winded way of saying “No Whites”.
That prompted an uproar from across the internet. The university was accused of violating federal and state civil rights law, while one Reddit user decried what they described as a “horrifically and monstrously racist practice that has no place in the modern world” and “literally evil.”
Earlier this year, the course description for “BIPOC Rock Climbing” was changed to read: “This class is designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported. The class is open to all Cornell students interested in learning rock climbing with this special focus.”
Which sounds an awful lot like “We’re not racist, but…”
With the semester winding down, students and instructors defended the course’s emphasis on non-white students. One student, freshman Thomas Gambra, told the Daily Sun that “[h]earing people complain about this class, saying it’s taking away from our white peers is laughable and frustrating.”
Instructor Matthew Gavieta, a junior, explained that the BIPOC course was meant to help alleviate what he called “an issue of inaccessibility for minorities in this white-centric sport.”
Another instructor, senior Michelle Croen, alleged that “it’s difficult to be a minority and feel welcomed in the outdoors,” citing issues including “cost of entry and accessibility [and] smaller microaggressions like the names of some outdoor climbing routes.”
In other words, she thinks all black people are poor. That sounds more than a bit racist, to me.
“Just under the surface, the climbing world especially is affected by racism, sexism and size-ism,” claimed Croen.
New York Post
“Size-ism”, now? Please, show us the video of the next land-whale intersectional feminist going rock-climbing. We could all do with the laugh.
Please share this article so that others can discover The BFD
