all right for our cancellation today we turn our attention to a gender studies master's thesis composed by a student at the university of wisconsin milwaukee jonathan k is an editor at quillette and he first brought attention to this on his twitter page the document had been available on the university's website but has since been put under embargo whatever that's supposed to mean what it actually means is that the university is embarrassed that the public took note of this and so they took it out of the public viewing for that reason all i really need to do is read the first part of the introduction to this thesis no other commentary is necessary though i will offer some anyway so here it is it's a little lengthy but it's worth your time so sit back and enjoy here it is and this is all totally real by the way i assure you as a white first generation college graduate who attended a mid-sized private university my identities and experiences inspired this study my whiteness offers a level of inherent violence to this study because of the history of privilege and structural and overt acts of harm my ancestors have contributed to society this echoes my experience in identifying as an anti-racist racist who as a white person spelled with an ex instead of an o a a persistent who as a white person is inherently racist but applies and is accountable to anti-racism in my life through activist educator and researcher capacities white supremacy is frequently misunderstood as only pertaining to overt or explicit acts of violence like neo-nazis or the ku klux klan however white supremacy in the context of this study centers the relationship between historical and unconscious bias that benefits whiteness through its structures policies culture and experiences over non-white individuals therefore it is irresponsible for me to be to begin this study without acknowledging the privileges that i am afforded in conducting this study as a white individual but also the contribution that i make to violence like white supremacy in the in the academy violence and university shows up in different ways than what may be explicitly produced violence in the context of this study includes interpersonal violence like slurs and ignorance politics that disproportionately have a negative impact on marginalized identities or bodies the hierarchical misuse of administrative power that make change seem impossible and the lack of understanding and support given to the marginalized university community and that's just the first few sentences of the introduction it's good that they took the whole document off the website i don't know if you could read much more of that or hear much more of it without slipping irretrievably into insanity so let's go through this somewhat haphazardly and make uh four points in no particular order first bookmark this podcast and remember that segment and come back to it this segment in fact that we're in right now and come back to it next time somebody demands that you define critical race theory because what you just heard is critical race theory it's hard to define because it's a jumbled unintelligible mess it's like being asked to describe in precise terms the contents of a of a porta potty now you may not be able to break it all down in specific detail but what you can say is that whatever is in there it's a whole bunch of for critical race theory the particulars are intentionally hard to discern and also irrelevant
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