Ohio State University requires students who sign up for a health sciences program to participate in discussions addressing white or heterosexual privileges, Fox News reported.
The information was obtained by the organization Do No Harm through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
The course, Individual Differences in Patient/Client Populations, includes an assignment titled “Unpack the Invisible Knapsack,” which requires students to complete activities about “privilege.”
The “knapsack” assignment is based on an essay entitled “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”
In July 2023, Ohio State University held a workshop based on the essay.
“In 1988, American feminist and antiracist activist Peggy McIntosh published an influential essay about what she labeled ‘white and male privilege,'” the university wrote in a description of the workshop. “In her essay, McIntosh identified 46 tangible unearned advantages she experiences because of her whiteness – things that are denied to people of color. In this 90-minute introductory workshop participants will learn about privilege, what it is and how it functions within systems to maintain oppression, and identify areas in which they simultaneously have and lack privilege across social identities.”
American Faith reported that a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis put up a display of “Christian privilege.”
According to reports, the bulletin board display put up by Charmayne “Charli” Champion-Shaw contained six full pages of detailed information on the topic, including an explanation that is “the idea that Christians receive inherent advantages in society (in school, in the workplace, and in public places) due to the perception that Christianity is status quo, while other religions are not.”
The material claimed that the idea behind Christian privilege is “benefits that apply to one group of people (Christians) that other groups don’t receive.”
