Miguel de la Torre argues that “hope” is a “white concept,” which would come as a surprise to St. Paul. In typical fashion, Sean McFarland, Carlow University Public Relations & Communications Manager, defends the university’s featuring of de la Torre’s message of fashionable racial hatred, resentment, and rage by claiming that the university exposes students to a wide variety of perspectives in order to encourage critical thinking. Is that so? All right: when was the last time the university hosted a foe of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women? Why, never, because that would be “Islamophobic”? That’s what I thought. So what’s that you were saying about free thought and free expression, McFarland?
Universities today are indoctrination camps for the hard Left. Flee them.
“Catholic university speaker: ‘crucify whiteness,’ embrace ‘hopelessness,’ ‘ethically lie,’” by Katelynn Richardson, College Fix, April 1, 2022:
Carlow University recently hosted an event on “Rejecting White Christianity” that featured a speaker who argued white people should “crucify their whiteness,” called for the embrace of “hopelessness,” and urged people to “ethically lie” to make right for past wrongs….
The March 3 event was sponsored by Carlow’s Atkins Center for Ethics and featured Miguel De La Torre, professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.
De La Torre began his presentation by lambasting evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump, according to a video of the speech.
“When eight out of ten white evangelicals voted for a person who is completely against everything Christianity stands for, I don’t know what Christianity they are practicing,” he said. “But I want nothing to do with that Christianity.”
He then distinguished “white theology and ethics” from “Latinx ethics” and noted that the term white does not refer to skin pigmentation but is an “ontological concept.”
“Those of us who are colored, some of us can also be white. But the good news is there is salvation,” he said. Later, he explained that this salvation means “we [who are colored] have to crucify our colonized minds, and for our white brothers and sisters, they need to crucify their whiteness.”
Torre’s speech focused on the idea of “hope,” which he rejected and characterized as a white concept.
“We embrace Euro-centric concepts like hope because it helps to pacify the oppressed during their oppression,” he said. “It leads to spiritual liberation, and ignores physical liberation.”…
Action for De La Torre means using what he called a “trickster ethic” to transform society.
The ethic covers things like “how to ethically lie so we can discover what is true, how to ethically steal so we can feed those who are hungry…[and] how to disrupt the structures that have trained us to oppress ourselves and to take upon our body our own discipline,” he said.
“This empire was built on stolen resources and cheap labor,” De La Torre said. “So hospitality is really the wrong word. What we need is restitution…By seeing this dilemma through the eyes of the margin, we come to a very different understanding of what the Christian response should be.”…
Sean McFarland, Carlow University Public Relations & Communications Manager, told The College Fix that “viewpoints of lecturers should not be taken as either an endorsement or opposition of how the University feels about a particular issue.”
“Rather, the intent of our university’s liberal arts tradition is to expose students to a variety of worldly perspectives and encourage them to think critically and individually on how they feel about the topic(s) in question,” McFarland said.
“Carlow University is proud of our Catholic heritage and mercy mission, which welcomes all. As such, the University welcomes respectful discourse and multiple perspectives, including being open to hosting speakers like Dr. De La Torre whose topic may engender thoughtful reflection and dialogue.”
John says
Nutcase.
bill says
Of course it is a Catholic ‘university’ seeking to prove how woke it is. Well, the RC church has always had more than its fair share of lunatics, including some popes.
The Protestant churches are not a whole lot better
Pray Hard says
Just another self-loathing leftist whoring for attention.
Wellington says
Ironically, it is the white world which has done more to create true freedom, equality under the law and the capacity to apologize for past wrongdoings (when has the decrepit Islamic world ever apologized for its many wrongdoings, ditto for the Asian world, the American Indian world, the sub-Saharan African world, et al.?) than any other sphere of mankind.
Upside-down world. Damn hypocritical world too. Frankly, I am disgusted by people like Miguel de la Torre and Sean McFarland. They are race hustlers and race hustlers are just about the lowest kind of human beings. Think Al Sharpton as another example. They are bottom-dwellers and yet often make a lot of money off of their parasitism.
Screw ’em all. Anyone paying them any attention is, at best, a fool. Such people should be confronted with their warped and highly tendentious view of history at every turn—but they won’t be except rarely.
gravenimage says
+1
bill says
Pardon me, but what would the American Indians (aka Native Americans) have to apologise for? Resisting their extermination?
They were in the position of the Jews of Europe in the 1933’s or more contemporaneously the Ukraininans desperately resisting Putins savages
Wellington says
bill: They could start with how they treated one another long before Columbus’s first voyage. The Aztec priests made capes made out of human skin and engaged in human sacrifice and cannibalism. The Arawak Indians were almost cannibalized out of existence by the Carib Indians after whom the Caribbean Sea is named. The Iroquois Confederation treated non-Iroquois like dirt, and the Huron and Algonquin skinned each other alive inch by inch when caught, a brutal and protracted death. The Five Civilized Tribes (Seminole, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw) in what is now Oklahoma had an extensive black slave system and a major reason why they joined the Confederacy. The last Confederate General to surrender to Union troops was General Stand Watie. Watie was a Cherokee chieftain. If Geronimo’s women of the Apache disobeyed him he caught off their nose.
Indians were murderous to each other as they were to white as whites were to them. Over thousands of years successive waves of Indians coming down through North America and South America exterminated previous Indian groups and the archaeological and physical anthropological records show this. Yes, whites did much wrong to the Indians (though diseases brought by whites which the Indians had no immunity to killed off more of them than any other factor) but Indians did much wrong to other Indians and to whites. Indians in North America were very wasteful per capita with land because of their slash and burn techniques, as recorded in even a left-leaning work like Tindall and Shi’s “America: A Narrative History.” I hope you don’t think that Indians always lived in harmony with the land. Sometimes they did, often they did not.
Do you know any of what I have just related? Are you so ingenuous as to believe Indian civilizations good, European civilizations bad, Indian societies not imperialistic, European societies imperialistic? Your turn if you care.
john smith says
Not just an excellent reply, but a very informative post.
PMK says
Thank you, Wellington. I second john smith.
Wellington says
Thanks to both of you, john smith and PMK.
Man’s inhumanity to man is universal. I have no objection to pointing out the wrongs of Western Civilization, indeed it should and must be done, but what I do very much object to is not pointing out the wrongs of other human societies.
No human slate anywhere on the planet is clean but we live in a phony world where only the West is excoriated for past wrongs. And what makes this doubly objectionable is that the West, more than any other civilization, has done more to better mankind by way of such magnificent achievements as the greatest technological heritage of any civilization, exploring women’s rights as no other civilization has, demonstrating a capacity to apologize for wrongdoings not equaled by any other civilization, and creating more freedom in government, beginning with the ancient Greeks, and a greater emphasis on equality under the law, than any other non-Western portion of mankind has ever done.
Sorry to go on so long, but I hate double standards and phoniness. I also think the time is way overdue to exalt the many achievements of the West and not just its negatives. Yes, way overdue just as apologies from non-Western societies (including American Indian societies, bill, if you are reading this) is way overdue. I would start with the Islamic world. It would be a good start.
gravenimage says
Fine posts, Wellington.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“…race hustlers and race hustlers are just about the lowest kind of human beings. Think Al Sharpton as another example. They are bottom-dwellers and yet often make a lot of money off of their parasitism.”
YES!
The Al Sharpton “types” do NOT want normalization of / peaceful race relations.
Why?
Because it would make these “types” irrelevant – forcing them to get real jobs.
somehistory says
That is so true, James.
Funeral directors may love people, but if all stopped dying, his job would be no longer needed.
commonsense says
Yet another excellent post, Wellington.
Anna Yelena says
What bull ?.
somehistory says
Stupidity is from the enemy of mankind. Any person who spouts this kind of nonsense…is working for mankind’s worst enemy.
There is no such thing as an “ethical lie.” Ethics means one must be truthful. A lie is the opposite of the truth…something this idiot evidently does not know.
and “hope.” Hope has been around since the days of Abel. He “hoped” that his sacrifice would be acceptable.
Hope was expressed by all of the people in the Bible who tried to do the right thing.
Perhaps some who were doing wrong, also hoped, but their hope was wrongly expressed. A thief may “hope” that he will not be found out, but his is not a good hope; whereas a person undergoing an operation may hope that the surgeon and staff got a good night’s sleep.
And the “whiteness’ is an evil thing, has reached the summit of stupidity and hate.
satan wants us all to *lie* and he wants everyone to be *hopeless* and depressed.
Anyone who listens to this kind of hogwash is asking for trouble. Being a *hopeless liar* does not make anything better.
bill says
Perhaps you mean the nadir rather than the summit.
somehistory says
either way. Those who are looked up to are some of the worst at being stupid and uttering lies. all of them, along with the lowest scum, are working hard to bring down any good, and the pile of evil is about as high as it can get.
Duane Mo tez says
Uhhhh…. Don’t forget the “White Hispanic” and lil travon…… La Raza is missing their Idiot Child
gravenimage says
Pittsburgh: Catholic university hosts speaker who calls on white people to ‘crucify their whiteness’
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Just sick. How is this *not* racism? Then, Miguel de la Torre looks pretty damned white to me. He looks like actor Billy Bob Thornton–so much so, I at first thought the picture above was of him. But he’s a person of color because he “identifies” as such.
More:
He then distinguished “white theology and ethics” from “Latinx ethics” and noted that the term white does not refer to skin pigmentation but is an “ontological concept.”
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Maybe he *has* noticed that he’s white–or at least that others have noticed.
More:
Miguel de la Torre argues that “hope” is a “white concept,” which would come as a surprise to St. Paul.
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It would indeed. In fact, faith, hope, and charity are key tenets of Christianity, and were before the first white person found Christianity.
Besides, why is de la Torres preaching hopelessness if he has given up all hope? Why would he even care?
What he is *really* doing is preaching nihilism. He wants everyone but his own band of thugs to give up hope.
Preaching hopelessness is not just sick–it is also false. And no–hope is not just spiritual. People also have hope about matters on earth.
More:
Action for De La Torre means using what he called a “trickster ethic” to transform society.
The ethic covers things like “how to ethically lie so we can discover what is true, how to ethically steal so we can feed those who are hungry…[and] how to disrupt the structures that have trained us to oppress ourselves and to take upon our body our own discipline,” he said.
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“Trickster ethic” has nothing to do with Christianity–it is a Native American concept. Then, this was applied to figures such as Coyote or Raven. These figures were sometimes looked upon with some fondness, but they were also considered disruptive and anything but ethical. Most often they were considered figures of fun, *not* role models for all people to follow. This would have meant anarchy *at best*.
Certainly lying and theft are anything but Christian concepts.
And the idea that the only way to feed the hungry is by lying to and robbing people is complete claptrap. It is the Capitalist West where people are best fed, *not* some sort of third world anarchy. In fact, these are the places most in need of charity–which almost always comes from the West.
This is warmed-over Marxism–and of a particularly ugly kind.
That Pittsburgh Catholic University is hosting this creep is “politically correct” madness. And that’s not all–he is a professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver.
commonsense says
gi,
I have always admired your ability to masterly demolish and debunk, point by point, the arguments preferred by those who are deranged and evil. You have accomplished this once again.
commonsense says
That should be proferred, not “preferred.” Damned autocorrect strikes again.
Wellington says
Seconded, commonsense. Gravenimage is a master of destruction of a bogus argument, point by point as you noted, like no other commenter here at JW.
She has done this for years and kudos for her immense skill in this area. As I wrote to her a while ago, she would have made a great lawyer—and I write this as the lawyer that I am.
commonsense says
gi,
My reply to you was distorted by autocorrect re: “proferred,” which posted erroneously as “preferred.” My apologies.
john smith says
1+
gravenimage says
Thank you so much, commonsense and Wellington. This means a lot to me coming from such fine posters as yourselves.
Andrew Blackadder says
I guess PRESIDENT Donald Trump not starting any new Wars and tried to get out of these endless wars, and made a deal with the Tali Boys to get OUT of Afghanistan is somewhat against the Christian values this moron speaks of.
Strange it is that a University promotes such people in the name of free speech, diverse views etc however let an opposing view point take place in the University and they will lose their minds screaming fascism fascistic…Yada yada yada.
Truly an upside down world we inhabit today.
JHL says
Let the bastard crucify himself. What a moron.
OLD GUY says
Maybe we should check to see how much muslim money is in their endowment accounts. The Saudi’s and others have pumped millions into our higher education system giving them access to who and what is on our college campus today. Our American Universities and Colleges have been sold out to the foreign money interest and they are indoctrinating our children.
Cato says
Back in the ’70s, long before the whole white guilt thing started, Tom Wolfe wrote a short story called “Mau-mauing the Flack Catchers”, a remarkably prescient article at the edge of the “equity” movement which states we are no longer equal, some are more equal than others.
I don’t apologize for the color of my skin, any more than I do the color of my eyes. It’s irrelevant, but it is interesting to discover that those who clamored for “equality” all these decades really didn’t mean it, they just wanted a chance to lord their skin color over others of “lesser value” – which is a pretty good definition of bigotry.
somehistory says
When “bo” was selected and about to assume power, at least one Black person I heard say, “Now it’s our turn.”
gravenimage says
Spot on, Cato, about the Tom Wolfe book. Written in 1970, it is still unfortunately of import today:
“Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers”
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Chic-Mau-Mauing-Flak-Catchers/dp/0312429134
It is also very funny.
PMK says
“As such, the University welcomes respectful discourse and multiple perspectives, including being open to hosting speakers like Dr. De La Torre whose topic may engender thoughtful reflection and dialogue.”
What was respectful or thoughtful in De La Torre’s presentation?
He’s a professor but he rejects the nuclear family and working hard and being polite and delaying gratification? All of these are hallmarks of ‘whiteness’, as defined by the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History.