'Diversity' course at Indiana U teaches students about their own 'dominance' or 'subordinance' based on race and sex

An Indiana University (IU) course is teaching students that they are inherently "oppressors" based on innate characteristics such as sex and race as well as others such as their religion. The course requires students to detail their "dominant" and "subordinate" characteristics.

The course that teaches the left-wing ideas, "Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society," fulfills the University's "social and historical studies" requirement, according to The Washington Free Beacon. The course, which is taught in the School of Social Work at IU, is taught by Professor Colleen Rose.

Students were given a chart that displays a column of "examples of dominant groups" as well as a column of "examples of subordinate groups" in the United States. Students were then instructed to write an "in-depth reflection of two parts of [their] identity: one subordinate identity and one dominant identity," according to the outlet.

The reflection was their final assignment for the course, and it assumed that every student had at least one characteristic that made them more "dominant" compared to others as well as one that made them more “subordinate.”

Dominant characteristics included being white, heterosexual, middle- or upper-class lifestyle, Christian, or being able-bodied. However, not all students had at least one characteristic that made them subordinate, according to the list of characteristics. One student told the outlet they had to "make something up" to do the assignment.

"I'm being punished through an assignment for my identity as a person, and that's just crazy," the college student added. "I had to make something up and I don't enjoy doing that."

Rose, who is also staffed as the director of student engagement at the university's Center for Rural Engagement, did not tell students how to complete the assignment if they did not have at least one characteristic that made them more “subordinate.”

"It's very rich that in a class where we are supposed to be talking about identity and not suppressing identity, I'm forced to suppress my own identity," the student added. "I have to suppress myself because I'm presumed to be some privileged, horrible human being that didn't grow up without food. That's insane to me."