5 May 2021
Cornell University is now offering a physical education course called “BIPOC Rock Climbing.” The Ivy League institution claims the class is: “designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported.” “BIPOC” is an abbreviation of “black, Indigenous, and people of color.”
The physical education course, “BIPOC Rock Climbing,” is “designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported,” according to the school’s website.
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The super woke students of Cornell University continue to defend a BIPOC-only rock-climbing class after an online uproar.
Various conservative outlets decried the prestigious university’s “Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color rock-climbing course which directly excluded white students when it was first announced for the Spring 2021 semester. After receiving extensive right-wing media backlash, the University finally opened the class up to white students as well. Cornell students, however, continued to defend the original intention of the course, which was described as “designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported.”
What the hay is wrong with Cornell, the Ivy League university offering rock climbing classes only to black, indigenous (whatever the hell that means), people of color? My skin is Olive so I demand special considerations! If you are off-white, you need to get benefits!
That’s no crazier than saying blacks and so-called indigenous should get special rock climbing privileges.
The class was originally only “for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color.”
By the way, plenty of Asians and Chinese are lighter than I am and I am considered white.
After some backlash over the obvious racism, the course description for “BIPOC Rock Climbing” was changed to read: “This class is designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported. The class is open to all Cornell students interested in learning rock climbing with thi
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