One college in New York is offering an instructional class to its resident assistants (RAs) called "StopWhitePeople2k16" that teaches them how to handle the "uneducated" campus folk.

The State University of New York at Binghamton wants its RAs, who help with residential life programs in exchange for free housing, to understand diversity and privilege.

“The premise of this session is to help others take the next step in understanding diversity, privilege, and the society we function within,” the class description says. “Learning about these topics is a good first step, but when encountered with ‘good’ arguments from uneducated people, how do you respond? This open discussion will give attendees the tools to do so, and hopefully expand upon what they may already know.”

The author of an article for the student newspaper Binghamton Review astutely observes:

The implication that comes across due to these perennial responses to perceived bigotry, however, is that Binghamton University is a very, very bad place to go to school due to the many racist, bigoted, and problematic staff and students. Whether an individual agrees with that implication, though, should be up him or her.

Is the university endorsing this view of the college community?

The terrifying implication here is not that students on campus think it is appropriate to call an event by that name, but that the university seems to endorse it as a proper part of a RA training.

The school's guide for RA's suggests that diversity is respected and welcomed.

“[T]he residential life program strives to provide environments which … create an environment where interaction between people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds as well as the sharing of divergent opinions and beliefs are respected and welcomed.”

It sure seems like only certain "educated" opinions and beliefs are respected and welcomed. So much for diversity and tolerance.