Story of the day: the University of Kansas has decided to offer a course called 'Angry White Male Studies'. And predictably, people are ticked off. My dear congressman Ron Estes, a stuffed shirt white male if ever there was one, took to twitter to complain about how this is divisive.
On the one hand, I get the point...change the title of this class to 'Angry Black Female Studies' and the thought police would go nuts. Change the title of this class to 'Angry Gay Latino Studies' and there would be a riot on the campus. But angry white males? Yeah, let's go after them and laugh at them. So I get it...white male privilege is low-hanging fruit, the last bastion of outrage for many of a certain ideological persuasion.
But isn't the fact that old white guys like Ron Estes get ticked off about this the point of the class? These are the people who have lived in power and privilege for, I suppose, forever. These are the people who had a solid 200 year run being president of this fine nation and then for eight years screamed how they were going to 'TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK'. And these make up much of the 38% of people today who continue to accept without question the unacceptable from our nimrod president and his nimrod advisors. They live in power and feel powerless. They have much of the wealth (often built on the backs of others) and scream how unfair life is. They moan about 'entitlements' that the government provides but are the most entitled of all.
My guess is that the University of Kansas is eventually going to back down, but it's going to eventually be a good story for the professor (a white male, BTW) who proposed this class. I suspect a book deal and a few segments on MSNBC and a new job at an eastern university is on the horizon.
