Wednesday, May 20, 2015

'Diversity Officer' - ‘Kill All White Men.'

Diversity Officer Who Tweeted ‘Kill All White Men’ Deserves Ridicule, Not Arrest - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "Some students at Goldsmiths, University of London have created a petition demanding the resignation and arrest of Bahar Mustafa, the campus’s diversity officer, because, well, she said a lot of hateful, racist things. And she should be mocked for them—relentlessly. She should not, however, face charges. 

Her statements include some pretty troubling stuff. Mustafa unapologetically defended her use of the hashtag “kill all white men,” according to The Independent: “It's a way of reclaiming the power from the trauma many of us experience as queers, women, people of colour, who are on the receiving end of racism, misogyny and homophobia daily," she added. 

 She recently instructed men and white people to steer clear of a diversity event she helped organize: "Also, if you've been invited and you're a man and/or white PLEASE DON’T COME just cos I invited a bunch of people and hope you will be responsible enough to respect this is a BME Women and non-binary event only." 

 Amidst charges that she is racist and sexist toward white men, Mustafa explained in a recorded message that this was literally impossible: I, an ethnic minority woman, cannot be racist or sexist towards white men because racism and sexism describe structures of privilege based on race and gender and therefore women of colour and minority genders cannot be racist or sexist, since we do not stand to benefit from such a system. 

 She also made a bunch of ridiculous claims about the need for “liberation movements” on college campuses and flatly denied that her job was to represent all students, since “all people… by virtue of their gender, race, and class, have opposing interests.” To deny the legitimacy of any of this nonsense “is to commit an act of violence,” she said. “Resistance to our resistance is futile.”"

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