“There is a new kind of discrimination on campus that’s going on that I really feel that we need to talk about, and I feel everyone is afraid to talk about, and this discrimination is against whiteness — it is today,” he said in his nine-minute video, which is quickly racking up thousands of views.
The first time Aaron Kindsvatter, a professor of counseling at the University of Vermont, heard the term “whiteness,” it was “when a faculty member offered to help me with it, like it was some kind of disease.”
Fast-forward to today, and Kindsvatter has had enough.
He posted a video March 8 titled “Racism and the Secular Religion at the University of Vermont” in which he suggests his employers are close to if not outright in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits work-based discrimination on the basis of race.
“There is a new kind of discrimination on campus that’s going on that I really feel that we need to talk about, and I feel everyone is afraid to talk about, and this discrimination is against whiteness — it is today,” he said in his nine-minute video, which is quickly racking up thousands of views.
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