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De- Or Re-Stereotypes?

The University of Virginia, according to this report, has just enjoyed its third annual ?de-stereotype day.?

The University of Virginia continues to work on fixing race issues on grounds. They have dealt with housing, and political cartoons, and Wednesday, it was stereotypes.

More than 1,500 students walked the grounds in white t-shirts with written messages to defy stereotypes. Their words were different but their collective message was there is more to everyone than meets the eye.

The goal was to get people to acknowledge and talk about stereotypes and hopefully to keep that conversation going. Organizers say some people do not think they are stereotyped, but they say it happens all the time.

It seems to me, however, that, far from defying stereotypes, this sort of annual display of self-congratulatory feel-goodism simply re-enforces a stereotype of college campuses (or in the case of UVa, grounds) as hotbeds of political correctness.

Full post as published by Discriminations on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).