Caucasian men’s group at ASU
This kind of blew up while I was in Iraq, and I’m only now hearing about it. Nevertheless, it’s an interesting story.
A group of Arizona State University students, calling themselves the Caucasian-American Men of ASU (CAMASU), formed their organization in October of this year. Of course, their advent provoked all sorts of negative commentary, as well as some positive. Here’s co-founder Matthew Jezierski explanation of why the club is important, as noted in the ASU Webdevil:
“This club is a way to instill pride in each other and not be ashamed that we’re Caucasian males.”
Hmm, doesn’t sound all that bad. In fact, it sounds a lot like other ethnically-oriented organizations out there - and there are TONS of them on college campuses. Here’s a list, just at ASU.
Of course, some didn’t see it that way…
CAMASU, which (CAMASU member) Emily Mitchell says is 22 percent female, has received opposition from groups like ASU’s Feminist Organization.The group is sending a negative message to the campus, Feminist Organization member Cali Kahlman said.
“The group sounds like it consists of white men who cannot comprehend how … much easier they have it than the majority of society,” Kahlman said. “They are aggravated because people are ‘taking away’ their rights, which is complete nonsense.”
You would have thought minority groups would have had the biggest beef, but apparently the biggest complainers are feminists. Must be that pesky use of the word “men” in the title. Whiners.
One ASU policy CAMASU intends to challenge is the general studies requirement of a course relating to cultural diversity in the United States, Jezierski said.He said classes in European history and languages should also be included in the requirement.
“I can fluently speak and write Polish. I don’t know how that’s not culturally diverse,” Jezierski said. “God forbid something comes from Europe.”
Yeah, God forbid.
Jezierski said CAMASU is trying to increase equality between races and genders, and nothing else.“This isn’t a mindless, sexist and raceless group,” Jezierski said. “It’s the opposite - we want to stop sexism and racism.”
Of course, after the story got on the internet, the usual wacko liberal suspects chimed in. From Arizona Indy Media, a poster named Phoenix Insurgent says this:
The fact is, whiteness is a political identity, a political relationship which was consciously constructed through law and political action by a combination of English elites and some working class European immigrants. In order to make the New World safe for their profits, Colonial elites offered some immigrants from Europe a “Devil’s Bargain” in which some privileges would be extended to them in exchange for accepting the subservient status of others, slaves most importantly, but also including Indigenous peoples and other Europeans.
Wow, I didn’t know I was a political identity. I always thought I was an American, whose ancestors happened to have from England and Scotland. Does that make me English-American? Or maybe Scot-American?
He goes on to say that at one time you weren’t really considered “white” unless you came from a certain area of Europe. That may be true, but what that has to do with this story, I’m not sure. But, PhoenixInsurgent somehow thinks it’s relevant in this day and age.
Hey whatever, this whole club for Caucasians is okay with me. It may be a little “they can do it, why can’t we?” but it doesn’t appear to be any harm.
By the way, what exactly is a Caucasian? According to Wikipedia:
In the United States, Caucasian has primarily been used as a distinction based on skin color, for a group commonly referred to as White Americans, as defined by the government and Census Bureau.[12]
In contemporary U.S. parlance, Caucasian and white are slowly being replaced with European-American as a racial identifier. Like African-American, the term has the advantage of describing two characteristics: both the ancestry of the person and his or her more immediate nationality and culture. In addition, older identifiers do not as accurately describe some populations. A large segment of the Hispanic community in the United States can be scientifically categorized as Caucasoid, but may not be labelled as white (by themselves or others).
I never was big on the whole hyphenated-American business. You are either an American, or you are not. So, this “European-American” business is a little too much for me. I’ll just stick with calling myself White.
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Minority ethnic groups form organizations on college campuses because their interests are typically under-represented and marginalized. These clubs also act as a support mechanism when the minority person is excluded or harassed by the majority.
Since when do white males have to worry about any of the above?
Hey, if everyone else can do it, why can’t they?
White males are beginning to have to worry about that more and more now. Particularly if they happen to be heterosexual and Christian.