Cornell charges students $1,800 for racially-segregated rock climbing class, frantically scrubs website when confronted

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[–]asterias 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This class is designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing

Is there someone/something prohibiting them from rock climbing in the first place?

[–]specialsauces 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

basically, people of color first trained us to not be racist towards them and now they pushed whites out of the game.

now, it is blacks that are racist.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, unless one considers class differences.

One could argue that a rock climing course designed to be more inclusive to under-representated or traditionally marginalized people is itself really calling into question the conflation of racial descrimination with problems of access due to class status.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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