{"id":393,"date":"2007-01-30T06:11:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T12:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/01\/30\/the-force-is-strong-in-this-one\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T06:11:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T12:11:36","slug":"the-force-is-strong-in-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"The Force Is Strong In This One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona State student Ryan Visconti proves that there is hope for the future.
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\nVisconti – a senior at the school – is pushing back over a “diversity exercise” in which students were assigned ethnic, affectional and social backgrounds, and subjected to society’s supposed stereotypes.<\/p>\n

Visconti said the students who designed the roleplay overlooked their own stereotypes, such as the notion that white men don\u2019t have to work for wealth because society gives them a free ride. Or the idea that Christian churches are filled with bigots, and people who support traditional family values such as heterosexual marriage are hateful and narrow-minded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were basically saying that if you don\u2019t feel the same way, you\u2019re wrong,\u201d Visconti said. \u201cIt got to the point that if you weren\u2019t a minority or gay, you were supposed to feel guilty and that everything was given to you in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

To start the role-play, participants were handed coded index cards that indicated their race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Participants were then told to visit different \u201clife stations\u201d and create their \u201cperfect life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The stations included booths for housing, banking, church, jail, transportation and employment.<\/p>\n

At each stop, Visconti said he was given scripted responses based on his gay Hispanic identity. He was told he could be a landscaper and live in a ghetto apartment or be unemployed and homeless. Meanwhile, students assigned white identities were encouraged to be business executives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the “training” starts well before college.\u00a0 I’ve had a longstanding program with my kids; I pay ’em a buck for every example of liberal indoctrination they bring home from school.\u00a0 These sorts of stereotypes are all over schools well into the elementary grades.<\/p>\n

It’s equally interesting to read the comments from the “tolerant” people at the end of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arizona State student Ryan Visconti proves that there is hope for the future. Visconti – a senior at the school – is pushing back over a “diversity exercise” in which students were assigned ethnic, affectional and social backgrounds, and subjected to society’s supposed stereotypes. Visconti said the students who designed the roleplay overlooked their own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}