Swedish student says paper mocking CRT with milk and coffee points on his university professor
To counterfeit black coffee with white milk is an act of racism, has a tongue on the cheek Swedish proclaimed in an essay? only to find his work famous by a critical whiteness teacher at Stockholm University, he claims.
Student Arvid Haag says that he signed up for the course “Critical whiteness perspectives on Nordic culture” at Stockholm University during the autumn term, and describes his choice as little more than a joke, because he spoke to Free Times on Monday. The Hague explained that the local rules for the pandemic scholarship had provided him and other students with unexpected financial assistance, and that he then thought he could “get something fun out of it” by addressing what he thought was a harmless or absurd class.
The Hague, however, claims that he soon found his classmates “seriously believed in what was taught.”
“It’s one thing that there is a course coordinator in Sweden who thinks this makes sense. But everyone who read the course seemed to swallow this with gusto,” said Haag, obviously surprised to find that the American-born ideology is so easily embraced by his compatriots. While he said he “added some critical comments from time to time” during class discussions, he remained largely silent otherwise – until it was time to submit his final paperwork.
Haag’s magnum opus was an essay entitled “Black and White Drinks”, in which he described “an account of what happened from the early 20th century in the struggle between coffee and milk.” He described the marketing of coffee and reveled in “problematic” ethnic terms: how it had been “characterized by highlighting black and exotic elements in the drink”, while milk had instead been marketed based on its “local and white” properties.
Referring to the common practice of mixing milk in coffee, he questioned whether the mixture really “united” the two liquids, or whether the “forced” white properties of the black drink.
Although he admitted that he had not read most of the books or blog posts he quoted, nor understood what “critical whiteness perspective” really means – an accusation he similarly made against his classmates and professor – Haag says he received B-grade on the essay, which means “very good.” The teacher called it an “exciting topic” that could be extended to a “longer essay”.
The Hague, however, does not believe that the teacher took the joke. “The joke must have gone over his head. His only criticism was that I did not have exact source references to my pictures,” Haag said.
(RT.com)
Source: sn.dk