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Leftists insist that we live in a society that is “systemically racist” and in need of massive reform and restructuring. The only thing lacking from this scenario is any significant evidence of actual racism, and so it has to be invented. The latest addition to the ever-growing list of things people have taken for granted from time immemorial that have now become racist is the venerable institution of marriage — at least according to (you guessed it) a white feminist professor at a leading American university.
The College Fix reported Friday that Bethany Letiecq, a professor at George Mason University, actually went so far as to publish a paper making this ridiculous claim in the Journal of Marriage and Family, which, like Letiecq, should have known better. But the academic world is firmly in the grip of the woke, and so Letiecq’s “scholarly” exploration of how marriage is racist was likely one of the saner publications to come out of George Mason in recent months.
That doesn’t mean, however, that it wasn’t filled with the pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook that passes for academic inquiry these days. “I theorize,” Letiecq announced grandly, “that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy.” Wait a minute. Before we explore what “marriage fundamentalism” could possibly be, the question must be asked: why did Letiecq capitalize “white”? Some would see that as evidence that she is racist herself, and since revolutions tend to eat their own, it wouldn’t be in the least surprising if one of her comrades accuses her of just that in the near future.
In the meantime, however, Letiecq did her best to compensate for her own sinful whiteness by claiming that “marriage fundamentalism” was the sin of believing that marriage as it has been understood by every culture and religion everywhere in the world throughout recorded history was superior to the new forms of marriage that have been cooked up over the last decade or two. Letiecq explained that this “marriage fundamentalism” could be
“understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family.”
Wait a minute again. Letiecq goes on to excoriate the “structural oppression and unequal power relations” that supposedly characterize “white heteropatriarchal nuclear families,” but the racial aspect of her case appears to be stuck on to the rest of her case, simply in order to conform with today’s woke fads. It doesn’t really have anything to do with believing in the “superiority of the two-parent married family.” There have been two-parent married families since the beginning of human history, and a great many of them have been non-white.
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Emilie Green says
Belmont and Fishtown.
Charles Murray’s fictitious towns (Coming Apart; 2012). One espouses bourgeois values (e.g., education, marriage); the other contemporary customs & customary norms (high percentages of single-motherhood).
On a generalized basis, the occupants of which town fares better in life?
Bethany Lyn Letiecq: The hypocrisy of the left standing in front of today’s college students.
Hey, that’s DOCTOR Bethany Letiecq to you. She’s not one of those doctors with an MD or a doctorate in chemistry or physics. Oh no, she’s one of those genuine, for-real “doctors,” you know, like Jill Biden. Old Bethany has lots and lots of initials after her name because she has a PhD in “Health Education/Family Studies” from the U. of Maryland.
Ya hear that? A P-h-D! We are so duly impressed.
Emilie Green says
If you wish to be even more duly impressed with “Doctor” (cough) Letiecq, her Curriculum Vitae* can be found here,
https://cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/bletiecq/
* Curriculum Vitae = a highfalutin term used by those sainted few in the “Academy” (which itself is another high-toned descriptor of the collection of the ego-driven known as The High & Mighty) to let you know how brilliant the holder of that CV really is. To the rest of us who don’t think we’re better than others, it’s called a resume.
Steve Brown says
Oh, this loopy hackademic has pronouns in her bio, so can swiftly be ignored….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, anybody that stupid tells me all I need to know about it, and I simply don’t engage w/ them (unless I’m in a professional setting where I have to)
Keith O says
The “out to lunch” sign on her forehead was the first indicator that this clown show leans so far to the left that she spins in circles.
Then there was the word salad that passes for credentials.
bill says
It just shows the kind of nonsense that is accepted for PhD these days.The horrifyig thing is they are allowed to teach young people
Hoi Polloi says
Didn’t we all expect this was next? Especially since many have made prominent the observation that self-proclaimed elites disparage any vestige of the traditional while themselves enjoying the protection of the same. Or shriek continually about racism and diversity while living where there is none.
The use of “fundamentalism“ to attack everything that successfully opposes them is rampant. She (and those of her ilk) must give up her car, house, the internet, modern medicine, electricity, polymers, stainless steel, and on and on, as they are products whose presence in our lives rest on the fundamentals of actual science. And we all know foundational, fundamental principles are odious to them.
Or maybe she could get a real degree and do some real, productive work. But then how would the untold numbers of administrators taking tuition to new heights find employment, if education once again became education because they could only employ worthwhile individuals.
somehistory says
The idiot says she and her partner ‘co-parent’ or some such, but are not married. The poor kids have a mom and dad, but any day one parent could split and there would be no court to say ‘child abandonment.’ No legal grounds for pursuing child support from the splitter.
And she claims that it is a racist thing for kids to have two parents…mother and father, ignoring the bio-fact that kids must have one of each to even be.
The Bible, written by Jews, lays out the bounds of marriage and family. And it wasn’t the *idea* of White people to construct it in that way.
she’s just another fool wanting attention and getting it however she can find to do so, appealing to the perverted and stupid.
Hoi Polloi says
I guess she wants to deprive all children everywhere of that which she makes no effort to provide her own children, just to level the field? It must be someone else’s fault.
somehistory says
She probably assumes that she’s different and that nothing will happen that she and her ‘partner’ don’t want to happen. And her attitude about other kids, depriving them of the traditional family…which is her aim…doesn’t cause her any anxiety.
Arrogance.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I pity that poor kid. In a saner society, s/he would have been up for adoption
somehistory says
So do I. I feel bad for all kids who are victims of their parents and society, as if little kids have no feelings or fears; or any rights.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes. It’s sad.
Tony Rice says
Well one thing is for certain , she won’t get married, which will be a relief for many. And Muslims especially are in the firing line, four times over.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
She deserves a genuine islamic husband, who should seduce her by telling her that there is a chapter in the qur’an called “Women”, and then he can make her what his right hand possesses ?
tim gallagher says
The leftwing wanker brigade are out to destroy all aspects of normal traditional society. Of course, the type of society that these leftie creatures would create would be a thousand times worse than what was there before they destroyed it. Mentally they truly do live on another planet. Or rather, they should probably be sent off to some other planet where they can live out their insane fantasies and not bother the saner, normal members of society. The trans movement, where very young people are given drugs to start changing their sex, and even surgery, shows how evil some of woke brigade are. I’m sure that marriage will outlast all the woke clowns and their bullshit. Most of the idiotic ideas these destroyers come up with deserve to laughed out of existence.
Namer says
The medical terms of Idiot and Moron come to mind here.
abu taleb says
But I am sure that poligamy is not racist because it is Islamic thing. How come Islam can be racist even though Islam values people based on religion and sex.
James Lincoln says
Is marriage also racist if it involves people of color?
somehistory says
She claims that marriage “marginalizes” them and all others who are not White, Christian, hetero, claim their gender born, etc. She lists off every possible group in the alphabet people, as well as immigrants, and others.
someone should ask her, what about the claim that all of us are “immigrants” and yet, most immigrants way back when, from whom we descended and from whom we learned things, got married at some point and had children **after** marriage.
James Lincoln says
Spot on, somehistory.
Prof. Bethany Letiecq Is a complete whack job.
David M says
Here in Australia, in order to push their multicultural agenda every ad shows a mixed race couple. I’ve heard the same thing is happening in America.
Just because the leftists want something to be true doesn’t mean it is true. Multiculturalism is a failed concept, they are just in denial of that fact.
Kittiekhatt says
Same adverts appear here on UK tv..too..
Pray Hard says
And, it’s always a black male and a white female.
OLD GUY says
A vary high percentage of commercials on American TV are represented by Blacks and mixed couple relationships, both straight and LGBTQWXYZ COUPLES. FUNNY HOW THESE ADVERTISERS ARE PANDERING TO THE SMALLEST PERCENTAGE OF THE MARKET. Are these companies trying to sell their product/service or something else? Its called indoctrination of civilization by someones ideology through the media. I choose to turn it OFF.
Pray Hard says
Can’t we just put these people in a mental institution and lock the door from the outside?
Ray Jarman says
All one has to do is read about the crime committed by fatherless boys in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Oakland and other large cities. Crisis Magazine’s, Paul Kengor wrote, “At most, and this is probably being generous, we found maybe four or five of the 27 shooters that we could definitively conclude (without doubt) had been raised in an intact family, or a family that included the biological dad at home, or a biological father who was consistently at home.”
As Robert Spencer mentioned that LBJ’s war on the family by the use of welfare and Medicaid to force low income fathers out of their homes started the rise of crimes committed by young fatherless boys. I know that when I was young if I did not behave, there was paddle or even a belt waiting to be used on my behind to reinforce right from wrong and obeying the rules set forth. I have seen no figures but I also believe that without both parents in the home, children are less apt to attend church where right vs. wrong is taught as well as caring for one another.