26% of White Republicans Say They Face Discrimination

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37. The Young Republicans on my campus back in the 90's pushed this wheeze saying they were

discriminated against by the curriculum choices and course content at UNC-Chapel Hill and threatened but never filed legal action. Of course this was a shot across the bow at that time. Their claim was that conservative thought and expression was being oppressed by a Liberal Arts curriculum which included Black and Women's studies but did not accept the conservative view of history, culture, law, or science.

In a way they were right. UNC didn't accept unfounded interpretations or propagandized versions of those subjects. The Young Republicans were a front group for the arch-conservative John Locke Society whose primary mission was to undermine objective thought and reason in North Carolina and replace it with racist elitism.

The social pressure those conservative students were complaining about came from other students on the campus. The academic pressure came from their attempts to subvert scholarship and replace it with propaganda.

Neither of those situations were discrimination. They were the result of a distorted world view confronted by reality. Their response was to demand a change in the rules to allow their views to be included in the curriculum and the rules of social order on campus. As they always do the conservatives played the victim card and wanted to change the rules to suit their views and preferences, rather than accept that the long established rules had validity and reason.

At that time UNC was the oldest public university in the US and had an important history in race relations in North Carolina. The John Locke Society had publicly named UNC as a public institution they intended to change. The whole "conservatives are discriminated against" which lead to the more current "cancel culture"meme was a strategy to undermine public perception.

This idea that racism is somehow a legitimate point of view and therefore equivalent to what I will call convention is an attempt to place racism on a level with religious faith in our understanding of civil rights under American law. I get angry when the MSM treats it that way. Individual people have the right to think and feel what they will. They do not have the right to impose those beliefs on anyone else. Racism presumes a privileged class of humans and several underclasses with no privileges at all. That is neither American nor Christian.