Posted on 11/20/2015 4:33:55 PM PST by Altura Ct.
A student at Columbia University is urging the school to inject more diversity into its required courses, claiming she suffered severe emotional trauma from reading too many books by and about white people.
Columbia students and faculty gathered Wednesday night for a panel discussion on “Race, Ethnicity, and University Life.†According to the Columbia Daily Spectator, much of the commentary revolved around the idea that minorities on campus simply spend too much time being traumatized by the white-centric content of their classes.
One of the panelists at the event was black Columbia student Nissy Aya. Aya was supposed to graduate in 2014, but instead is only on track to receive her degree in 2016. That, Aya says, demonstrates “how hard it has been for me to get through this institution,†though it’s worth noting she is an exceptional case, as Columbia has one of the highest four-year graduation rates in the country.
Aya attributed some of her academic troubles to the trauma of having to take Columbia’s current Core Curriculum, which requires students to take a series of six classes with a focus on the culture and history of Western, European civilization. Aya says this focus on the West was highly mentally stressful for her.
“It’s traumatizing to sit in Core classes,†she said. “We are looking at history through the lens of these powerful, white men. I have no power or agency as a black woman, so where do I fit in?â€
As an example, Aya cited her art class, where she complained that Congolese artwork was repeatedly characterized as “primitive.†She wanted to object to that characterization but, in the Spectator’s words, was “tired of already having worked that day to address so many other instances of racism and discrimination.â€
Roosevelt Montás, Columbia’s associate dean for the Core Curriculum, didn’t exactly offer a spirited defense, instead saying Aya was showing the troubling racism that may lurk inside the Core.
“You cannot grow up in a society without assimilating racist views,†he said, according to the Spectator. “Part of what is exciting about this conversation is that it’s issuing accountability for us to look within ourselves and try to understand the way that racism shapes how we see the world and our institutions.â€
This isn’t the first time students have complained about the mental anguish of studying the Western canon. Last spring, four students published an editorial for the Spectator complaining that a student was triggered by having to read Ovid, and proposed replacing his offensive works with those of Toni Morrison.
Snowflake
Their endless list of achievements, inventions, discoveries, and artistic creations make her feel highly inadequate.
All of a sudden everything and everyone is racist..
Frankly, reading and hearing too much about senseless protests is traumatizing me.
Don’t they teach these mindless yutes about MLK and dignified protests over legitimate grievances?
George Washington Carver was one of the greatest inventors in American history. He was black and often referred to as the “black Leonardo Da Vinci.” Why aren’t colleges promoting him in their history and science classes?
Columbia can do even better and ban all white people from their campus. Let the dark ages begin!
Well read this you faggot. We annihilated 300,000 in Dresden Germany with fire bombs in WWII. The we incinerated 300,000 japs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and WE WON!! THAT”S “WHO WE ARE” !!
Was that Nissy or Sissy?
Think maybe they should stop accepting students based on race????? If they’re too stupid to know that exceptions are being made for them because of their color, they’re too stupid to accomplish anything in college anyway!
This deranged, disordered, brainwashed, sexist, racist twit should be locked up in a psych ward all by herself so she can have a safe space forever.
She needs to go to Iran or someplace in Africa or North Korea. They’d put her out of her misery.
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Bring back eubonics
At this point all I can say is,whatever.
There is a huge big continent to the east of her location that would gladly accept her and her kind. She could have her pick of about 54 countries....good luck, toots! Be sure to make nice with the black terrorists.
These assholes are insulting those with real problems. How about the trauma from rape? PTSD? Miscarriage?
Brain strain?
Both cells of this ignorant sl*t’s brain were taxed beyond their limits.
The fact that she is in a university is a damning illustration of the lack of academic standards of the school.
...Aya was supposed to graduate in 2014, but instead is only on track to receive her degree in 2016...
Could it be that some underperforming high school students are “equal opportunity diversified” admitted into a University way above their capabilities and ability for success. Of course, the problem is external and not within the slow college student.
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