An Open Letter to Wadham Race Symposium

Subject: An Open Letter to Wadham Race Symposium
From: A Concerned Student
Date: 11 Jan 2016

By stating that an institution contains "whiteness", are you not just enforcing the racial stereotypes that you state to be fighting against? Why does it matter if an institution is slightly more "white" in what it teaches and its makeup anyway? The nation it is in is made up of a majority of white people, so perhaps it is not surprise that it is a "white" institution, if it is that at all? The "white curriculum" you rally against is surely just a reflection of the best historical, scientific, mathematical etc thinking, and many of these thinkers just happen to be white. Why should their validity be any different because of their colour? In your authoritarian quest for racial "equality", you are just encouraging racism against thinkers regardless of the validity of their findings, just because they may be white and/or male. I honestly thought this event was a satire, but sadly it is not. If only the founders of Wadham College and Oxford University could see what has become of their institution. But they probably don't matter to you, because they're white males and so just enhance the "whiteness" and 'male domination' of the institution....

I urge you all to reconsider what your event really means, and whether the quasi-censorship of our history as you suggest is an act that is worthy of students of that great British institution that is Oxford University, who have throughout history been a bulwark against unreasonable thinking and dogma, two things this event is expressing.

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