Post by Daniel on Jan 14, 2019 10:38:18 GMT -5
A Tale of Two Talks: Profane Talk Condemning Whites Receives Praise at Wheaton College While Godly, Prolife Talk is Condemned
Julie Roys
January 11, 2019
I knew my alma mater, Wheaton College, was drifting left, but this is shocking even to me. In 2017, Wheaton’s philosophy department sponsored a profane, graphic, and racist speech by George Yancy, a philosophy professor at Emory University. In it, Yancy asserted that all white people are racist because they live as the majority in a racist society. He also asserted that given the history of white supremacy in America, black people should be afraid of white people. “If you’re black, you should be scared as hell here at Wheaton College,” he said.
Yancy’s talk was laced with expletives, including numerous f-bombs, and essentially equated the most disgusting comments made by white supremacists as being representative of “white America.”
That speech sparked zero organized protest on Wheaton’s campus.
In fact, the campus newspaper, The Wheaton Record, published only positive responses to the speech. One student called the speech “eye-opening” and something “everyone should consider.” Wheaton philosophy professor, Adam Wood, said Yancy’s message was one “that we should be open to.”
However, as Ryan Scott Bomberger, co-founder and chief creative officer of The Radiance Foundation, points out, his “expletive-free, fact-based,” prolife talk on Wheaton’s campus last month sparked significant backlash. That’s because Bomberger had the gall to challenge the hypocrisy of the Black Lives Matter movement for its support of groups like Planned Parenthood, which slaughter black babies. He writes:
Yancy’s talk was laced with expletives, including numerous f-bombs, and essentially equated the most disgusting comments made by white supremacists as being representative of “white America.”
That speech sparked zero organized protest on Wheaton’s campus.
In fact, the campus newspaper, The Wheaton Record, published only positive responses to the speech. One student called the speech “eye-opening” and something “everyone should consider.” Wheaton philosophy professor, Adam Wood, said Yancy’s message was one “that we should be open to.”
However, as Ryan Scott Bomberger, co-founder and chief creative officer of The Radiance Foundation, points out, his “expletive-free, fact-based,” prolife talk on Wheaton’s campus last month sparked significant backlash. That’s because Bomberger had the gall to challenge the hypocrisy of the Black Lives Matter movement for its support of groups like Planned Parenthood, which slaughter black babies. He writes:
As an adoptee and adoptive father who was conceived in rape, I challenged students to see the most vulnerable, the most marginalized, and the most powerless among us as having equal intrinsic worth and God-given Purpose.
Six days later, I was severely denounced by a campus-wide email sent out by two Wheaton staff members and signed by three student government leaders. My entire message was branded as “offensive rhetoric” that made “many students, staff and faculty of color” feel “unsafe” on their campus. And now, the school has cancelled the College Republicans’ next event, because leadership claims their speaker approval process needs to change so Wheaton students aren’t exposed to such factivism (aka truth) again.
Six days later, I was severely denounced by a campus-wide email sent out by two Wheaton staff members and signed by three student government leaders. My entire message was branded as “offensive rhetoric” that made “many students, staff and faculty of color” feel “unsafe” on their campus. And now, the school has cancelled the College Republicans’ next event, because leadership claims their speaker approval process needs to change so Wheaton students aren’t exposed to such factivism (aka truth) again.
Bomberger said the response was disappointing, particularly from a Christian school: “It’s one thing to have a different opinion about something but to so clearly demonize me … and then to send it out to the entire school with no other perspectives provided … I was really thrown.”
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