So I have to spend my entire afternoon mired in a Diversity Workshop here at this fine bastion of higher education. I've got worked piled up to the bloody ceiling in my office which I'd actually like to work on, but instead I have to waste four hours listening to some middle-class white HR employee tell me how to understand minorities. I've been witness to this little dog-and-pony show before. The term "diversity awareness" is horseshit rhetoric. If someone's a raging racist, does this university really suppose that four hours of white-guilt babble will help? "Whoa! Just hours ago, I was an ignorant white supremecist whose home decor consisted primarily of swastikas and confederate flags, but now I've seen the light. Thank you, perky human resources employee!" Instead of requisite seminars on shit that might make a difference around here, we have to listen to this. Why not offer a seminar on how to protect oneself from rampant crime? No matter that there's no evidence of racism on this campus. Meanwhile, three students and one employee have been either raped or brutally attacked in the last month. One kid was hit in the face with a brick; knocked out all his teeth, a few of which punctured through his face. Another girl was beaten and raped about 300 feet from the entrance to the building where I work. Why should events like these yield any action on the part of the university when it could be spending time and money teaching me how to pussy-foot around minorities?
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