by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker Blog
As a daily reporter, columnist and author it seems I have developed a reputation for unparalleled bravery in exposing truths which the 1% want to keep hidden.
That is the only reason I can think of to explain why an anonymous whistleblower chose me to release this shocking internal memo from embattled Smith College.
The memo demands that their White workers, “admit to White privilege, and work on my so-called implicit bias as a condition of my continued employment”, to nick a phrase from a recently resigned employee of the school, Jodi Shaw.
A thorough recap of the Smith College saga (and the above quote) can be found by reading this article from The New York Times, “Inside a Battle Over Race, Class and Power at Smith College”. To summarise: In 2018 an 18-year old Black female student at Smith College (which is part of the nation’s elite “Seven Sisters” historical women’s colleges) wrongly accused several White service workers of racism, “misgendering” and other threatening behaviors. The workers were later found innocent of all accusations, but they still lost their community standing, personal safety, privacy and socioeconomic well-being, and all without apology or compensation.
The case has remained in the American spotlight mainly because it serves as an example of fake-leftism run amok. In order to distinguish the real from the fake, I agreed to publish this leaked form which White Smith College employees must now sign in order to avoid another embarrassing incident.
—RM
From: Smith College Board of Trustees
To: White Smith College employees
Re: Work Sets You Free (sign or be fired)
We at Smith College are committed to providing these United States of America – excepting the states which swung for Donald Trump in either 2016 or 2020 – with the highest quality of education possible in order to create a more perfect and enlightened union.
This is why our annual tuition is set at $78,000 per year – in order to deny any sort of deplorable infiltration by the non-elite – be they financial, sexual, ethnic or ideological non-elite – into the upper echelon of American society.
Therefore I, the undersigned and guilty White defendant/employee, hereby agree with, consent to, and admit the following in order to continue my employment with Smith College:
By being White I benefit from “White privilege”.
Repeat and internalise the following:
“Whether I am a tenured professor who cannot be fired or a longtime janitor, as a White person we Whites are all the same. This is true in ideas, speech and – of course – looks.”
“I confirm that Whiteness is our only important socioeconomic characteristic. By being White we have undoubtedly reaped enormous financial and social benefits from being White.”
“Even if we are signing this pact from our single-wide trailer home while our neighbour is having yet another meth-induced psychotic episode, our Whiteness has always guaranteed prosperity and social success.”
“By being White I cannot possibly have an intelligent analysis of racial and social relations in the United States and/or beyond. I hereby swear to stop reading books as it will just confuse me further, due to my Whiteness.”
The White workers in the service sector who were falsely accused in this case by must additionally admit: “My experience being falsely accused, dismissed from work, socially harassed and/or unfairly shunned has no bearing on anything at all, nor should it, because these problems happened to a White person.”
By being White I have an implicit bias.
Among White people an implicit bias is universal. It includes but is not limited to: White supremacism, Nazism, the supremacy of Whites, race-based totalitarianism, White supremacy and the Confederacy.
Smith College is in Massachusetts, but any service sector worker whose ancestors died for the North in the Civil War must still admit their bias in favor the defeated Confederate States of America who killed their ancestor.
Being non-White means never having to say you are sorry.
The 18-year old Black student who accused our uppity hired help was not at all just another overdramatic, socially brutal and self-centered 18-year old for the following reason: she was Black.
Also: because she was a “she”. Smith College trustees fully support #MeToo’s “Believe all women” motto, yet we even more strongly support, “Believe all rich liberal arts college students”.
In fact, Smith College – a hallowed, 145-year American institution – has always had the same motto: “The customer is always right.” Thus we commend The New York Times for accurately reporting that we have lived up to that very demanding slogan: “We used to joke, don’t let a rich student report you, because if you do, you’re gone,” said Mark Patenaude, a janitor.” We proudly note that Smith College gives as many as six scholarships to non-rich students over every three-year period.
Smith College will immediately implement the following, as relayed by The New York Times: “…the creation of dormitories — as demanded by (the accusing student) and her A.C.L.U. lawyer — set aside for Black students and other students of color.” Smith College employees must ignore complaints from Smith College students who find a cross burning in front of their dorm room in order to expedite this “re-segregation” plan.
Being White means you are an obstacle to any and every “social justice mission”.
We hold such a truth to be self-evident in enlightened 21st century America, where – with the recent restoration of Joe Biden – a true leftism now reigns supreme. It is one which must be ruthlessly implemented in all non-American nations.
This is why we denounce The New York Times’ introduction of pernicious class warfare – which is not at all acceptable in “leftism with American characteristics” – and so very, very early in their article: By relaying the following intellectual concept proposed in the 61st paragraph of a 66-paragraph article (and from someone from the untouchable janitor class, no less!), all Smith College employees are now banned from talking to The New York Times.
“He (Patenaude) recalled going through one training session after another in race and intersectionality at Smith. He said it left workers cynical. (Editor’s note: such classes were not for teaching faculty but only for workers.) “I don’t know if I believe in white privilege,” he said. “I believe in money privilege.”
This worker will soon be fired for suggesting that economic class is even close to being as important as race, gender, sexuality, religion, ableness, handedness, hair color, height, weight, eye color, favourite sports team or shoe size in modern American society.
And to prove there is no “money privilege” at Smith College: White Smith College service sector workers who additionally pay the $78,000 yearly tuition are hereby exonerated from signing this agreement.
Your signature here _______________________________
With the current (and future) state of Western civilization, everyone is a comedian now. But hey, I understand it. Next up: changes in the Geneva convention, so that captured GIs in the next war can share name, rank, and pronouns.
drb
Well, not quite. The only comedians we have are the ones promulgating the sick nonsense presented in this article, not the ones being forced to accept it.
The author has stated that the demands being made are ” … an example of fake-leftism run amok”. Well, not quite. The leftism we see in the United States is nothing more than neoconservatism under a different name. If it was true leftism, then the neocon controlled FBI and others would go after the promulgators of such “leftism”, as they went after the US Communist Party, and still do.
It is by now quite apparent that neocon globalists are after sovereign nation states which, as such, they want to see destroyed, so that they can easily control them. The neocon created European Union is an example of a mechanism introduced to curtail the sovereign status of European states by placing them under the control of Brussels, which has introduced immigrant quotas for every member state. The immigrants, who originate from third world countries, are imported for the sake of subversion, as the neocons know they can never assimilate into European cultures. The intent is to create political, economic, financial, social and ethnic troubles for member states, and thus additionally weaken them.
What is a mystery to me is why such policies are also introduced into the US, which the neocons use as a hammer for globalist policies. If, and when, the US disintegrates, who will continue with neocon/globalist policies ? Which country ?
In the US, and partially in the EU, the neocons are concentrating on “white guilt”, provoking inter-ethnic conflict. What we have here is an example of selective history, pointing to certain aspects of white history and forgetting to state that other ethnic groups had similar or identical histories. For example, demands are being made for reparations to be made to descendants of Afro-American slaves. And who is going to pay those reparations ? The whites, because they brought slaves into North and South America. However, this particular piece of history needs to be elaborated.
It is true that whites brought slaves to the Americas. However, this was also done by Khazarian descendants. The sailors who came to West Africa for slaves did not have the numbers to wage war and capture slaves, certainly not with single shot muskets of the period. They simply bought them from African tribes who already had captured slaves from inter-tribal warfare. Perhaps some West African countries should pay compensation to Afro-Americans. Also, the first slaves in America were not Afro-American, but European, known as indentured servants. At the same time you had slaves in the Middle East and other areas of the globe.
What I find amusing is the fact that some Afro-American people converted to Islam, as a protest to the slavery which existed in the US and practiced by some Christians. They should have read some history on the Middle East. The fact that they converted to Islam does not mean that non African Muslims will ever accept them as equal.
How far will this neocon subversive nonsense spread ? Remains to be seen. At the moment we can only watch and analyze.
The limit to the insanity is showing no bounds.
An excellent post Leo; I like going to the Unz Review where I can get a good reading on what psychologists would call he Jewish Shadow. That being the part of themselves that their ego’s cannot handle openly acknowledging. We all have a “shadow” and now I believe is the time for the collective “shadow” of the West to emerge and come to the fore.
So I read that American history is an ongoing civil war between Protestants, Catholics and Jews. That seems believable to me. We have Catholics originally running the CIA and privately calling it “Catholics In Action” (See Douglas Valentine). Although I suspect the Neo Cons would have more influence now. And then there is the fact that the Supreme Court is dominated by Catholics. So you have a Neo-Con Zionist Whitehouse, a Catholic Supreme Court. Along with a Catholic – Neo Con CIA. And the Protestants seem to have lost all self cohesion and self confidence.
Another gem I picked up being – “the Jews use the Blacks as ammunition against the Whites” (meaning Protestant Christians.) With the Jewish New York Times running the 1619 project and Hollywood and the mass media backing them up we appear to have a reactionary Jewish campaign to push the Blacks forward as a reactionary bourgeois divide and conquer tactic in order to forestall any possibility of unity between the black and white working classes. As well as to enhance Jewish dominance in relation to White American Christian Protestants. Recall that the Saker defined modern Judaism a form of organized “Anti Christianity.” Of course understandably many African American’s take whatever advantage they can find in this opportunity. But then they begin to run up against the contradiction that the Jews are seeking to control the Black upsurge. When they start to buck at the traces the Jews pull on the reigns of the African Americans in order to retain control.
As i see it it the religious distortion of the Catholics combining with the religious distortions promulgated by fundamentalist Jewish Rabbis presents a formidable hidden challenge to any attempt to create a healthy American culture.
I believe these hidden dynamics are driving the absurdity that Ramin has written about here.
A very admirable illustration of the absurd.
Sadly this ‘humor’ is only funny insofar as it does indeed illustrate the merely absurd truths about what is happening in america and apparantly to the entire western world to a greater or lesser degree.
Some very serious human beings consider this madness to be a Powers and Principalities war of extreme significance.
Thanks to the author. Another great read that always helps me to keep an open mind toward the thoughts of people I can respect.
Peace.
Congrats on your rep. Much respect. I don’t think a pro bono lawyer will be hard to come by. Where is the ACLU when you need them? Can you say, how long will it take to settle out of court?
The freedom of association — unlike the rights of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition — is a right not listed in the First Amendment but recognized by the courts as a fundamental right.
Funny that is a right b/c guilt by association in theory should also then be able to be applied and used against the courts, fundamentally of course.
Conflating white skin with being part of the 1%.
‘White Trash’, that is the white underclass that has been used for centuries to do the 1%’s dirty work, are brainwashed to think that they’re privileged for having white skin.
And it’s a fact that ‘whiteness’ is privileged. That’s why, here in Thailand, girls use ‘whitening cream’ to make their skin lighter.
Nonetheless, whiteness is just part of the identity politics method of divide and conquer the rest of us from the ‘real owners’.
“trust the science”, but in this case trust the unverifiable and unfalsifiable implicit bias I believe you have.
These people will get what they get when civilisation drops dead and they have 3 days of food in their cupboards.
Perceptive U$ poet, Randall Jarrell, who was on the staff of such a womens college in the 1950s, confirms Ramin’s view:
„President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.“ — Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution
U$ college president’s environment being fund-raising, same as POTU$A’s environment.
Which would explain the quote:
“We used to joke, don’t let a rich student report you, because if you do, you’re gone,” said Mark Patenaude, a janitor.”
Was the student in question a regular paying student or one of the rare scholarship students?
The student in question, Oumou Kanoute, was the privileged daughter of parents from Mali, grew up in NYC where she attended the Westminster School (boarding and day prep school) before matriculating at Smith College. Another rich kid using “woke-ness” to make “woke” college administrations and faculty jump to his or her tune.
That must make the USA REALLY attractive as a place to live.
Anyone imposing that kind of trash should have to first prove that they, personally, as a very rich WHITE person, have handed over 40% of their assets to the downtrodden BLACK underclass.
Until they have set an example, they should not have the legal right to impose ANYTHING on anyone else.
Unparalleled bravery? Going back to Iran and speaking out publicly against the ayatollahs-now THAT would be unparalleled bravery. In the West ,you risk zero,zilch,nothing,except a few shrugs,that is.
You have no idea what you are talking about. There isn’t a single person in Iran who isn’t openly taking a crap on the government right now.
Sit in any taxi in Tehran, and the driver and passengers will be talking about how good Rouhani’s head would look like on a pile.
I think the pile-on is indictitive of every country, imagine having a drama Queen as a leader……ever been to Canuckistan.
Cheers, M
Lmao here, almost spilled my coffee….Thank god my father moved the family out of the US 20 years ago.
Seeing that the US is still a federation of states, it would maybe be advisable to migrate to a like minded state, assuming that there are states that legislate based on your views and beliefs. Because seriously, I don’t see how normal human beings with any kind of normal logic, morals or ethics can co-exist with this (woke) extreme liberal influential minority.
If government, educational and other types of institutions are run by this kind of elite you either need to organize revolt against them or find somewhere else to live.
Ok, I forgot how much I was laughing…going to re-read this article again…thanks go to Ramin !
Thanks Ramin, for sharing this gem of absurdness.
During reading first I thought this was a joke, but at a certain moment I realized that even the masters of absurdity, the legendary Monty Python, could not have come up with this.
They have gone completely bonkers and are defied from any logic. Looking back on slave trade with disgust is fine, but why don’t we focus then on battling slave trade that happens *now*, while that would make a difference, in stead of whining about people who are already so dead that flowers are growing on their bellies?
And people who are discussing ‘ethnomathematics’ are the living proof that math is a step too high for them, and I would certainly not drive my car with my family over a bridge that is calculated with it.
Gee, would they realise that Greta Thunberg is also white?
Cheers, Rob
Cheers, Rob
Thugberg, may be of the chosen, they are opaque. No one will ever have to excuse their opaqueness.
Cheers, M
Nothing absurd about this.
Leave the noise out (politics, ideology) and it is pretty simple:
The economic pie is shrinking.
The new normal is:
Either everybody agrees on a pay cut (not gonna happen bcs USians are very individualistic and socialism is ‘the devil’)
or
some stay employed with full pay and others get the pink slip. And this scenario is happening right now.
Absurd or not, but these bullying tactics are used to remove competition. If Trump had won, the right wingers would do the same to the liberals only using different methods and excuses.
What matters is not what you are – conservative or liberal – but who do you think has a better chance of prevailing.
Don’t need a fan. Join the winning team. It’s just business.
To quote the scientist in “The Thing” when one of his colleagues’ head fell off and started scurrying around the room:
“You’ve got to be f*cking joking.”
If the employees of the Smith College are actually being compelled to endorse such an utter bucket of idiotic puke as a condition of their continued employment, then I would expect in a rational world for the Smith College to be having a real hard time finding anyone to employ.
Seriously.
Never mind the fundamental stupidity of these assertions and demands, where is the moral fibre and egalitarian spine of the American society as a whole, let alone the dignity of the 60% majority white honkies who apparently are quite happy to sit back and take this BS?
If this sort of outrage can be inflicted on Americans with impunity, then it’s already all over for the USA.
I really like the term “Leftism with American characteristics”. Vanilla republican types like to claim that socialism/the left in general is not really American but the current neo liberal paradigm is 100% born in the US and is the bastard offspring of classical free market capitalism. The dialectical contradictions with in free market capitalism can either be resolved in favor of the workers or in favor of the plutocrats and “Leftism with American characteristics” is the latter coming to fruition. Its the worst of free market capitalism combined with social revolution from above which we are told is the right of the oligarch class because corporations are people in the US which no libertarian will challenge.
One of the hardest things to get through to the average American conservative is that his problems aren’t the communist, they aren’t because of the Chinese, Iranians or Russians, they are all totally homegrown (though many of the individuals involved have dual citizenship). But the point is that the “liberalism” American conservatives claim to hate incorporates pretty much everything they claim to support minus the identity politics. The oligarchs don’t have to pay taxes, big business is free to do damn near anything they want. And the result is big tech censorship of the masses that is worse than anything in China or North Korea, the jobs are exported abroad and the country is de-industrialized. Leftism with American characteristics is the failure of classical liberalism realized. American conservatives think the answer is to this is even more libertarian economics as if those with all the capital in a libertarian system won’t naturally do what in their interest, which is not what’s in the interest of the average worker or citizen. Why would they be?
Leftism with American characteristics is classical liberal free market economics combined with neo con foreign policy. The way this system is maintained is by constant revolution from above which homogenizes the population via disgusting, degenerate mass pop culture and breaking down all the morals and customs of society. The American conservative doesn’t even have the mental framework and vocabulary to recognize the problem much less address it. But the overall point is that conservatives have absolutely nothing to offer big capital that they don’t already have in partnership with the woke pseudo left. In short mammon worship is a very ugly thing and any society based on it is doomed.
Was it clear in this Manifest of the Smith’s Whitism Party any hint or clue that Chinese, vietnamese , Korean or Thai applicants to the School employee were at all eligible?
Because in thirty years or less these glorious white guidelines will be a joke tale in a museum.
The letter is so absurd that I assumed right away that this was a satirical article.
But considering that the USA gets crazier almost every single day, it could be real.
Exactly, also my sentiment. Considering NY schools sending questionnaires to white parents to rate their whiteness (white traitor – white supremacist), I’m not sure about lunacy being no joke anymore…
Jody Shaw, a Smith alumn, published this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blqpCMChBpI&feature=youtu.be
while still an employee of Smith college in this exact subject.
She has other videos also.
Moreover, last time I checked her GoFundMe funds were being withheld from her.
I watched and listened to that video.
Two comments.
One, she was being far too gentle. If I had been on the receiving end of that type of mistreatment, I would have told the perpetrators to go straight to hell.
Two, if this type of treatment is typical of identity politics, then identity politics is a form of mental illness.
I was impressed by the moral strength beneath her gentleness. What Karen Blixen called, The Steel in her Armature.
The college needs to change its name as Smith is 100% imbued with Whiteness.
Smith College should change its name in Cuckoo’s Nest College.
Puleeese!
That “leaked memo” is undoubtedly either satire — excellent satire — or the manifesto ravings of one of our latter-day PC nutbags.
I laughed my ass off.
Move right along, nothing to see here.