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Classical Mythology Now Too Much for Sensitive College Students
American Prowler ^ | 5.13.15 | Emily Zanotti

Posted on 05/13/2015 12:33:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" is a fixture of Lit Hum, but like so many texts in the Western canon, it contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom. These texts, wrought with histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression, can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.

Ludicrous. Doesn't the university see it is being punked?

21 posted on 05/13/2015 3:08:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Politicalkiddo

I hope you did The Iliad too.


22 posted on 05/13/2015 3:09:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

We didn’t have time for that, but I may get back around to it one day. I’m busy reading American classics and political works by the Founders at the moment. :)


23 posted on 05/13/2015 3:14:08 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again."- Nathaniel Greene)
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To: Disambiguator

I said “if”. They gotta start someplace. Or they can just be Eloi. Food for the Morlocks. HG Wells nailed it a century ago.


24 posted on 05/13/2015 3:18:01 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Zeneta

Kidding? I guess you get my thrust. We have rampant ignorance all over the place and anything that can’t be fingered-up on a hand-held is just too much work to bother with.

And if you think the number one is agressive just think 250 pound linebacker Marine re-training the occasional millenium. Just the memories give me a warm fuzzy upper.


25 posted on 05/13/2015 3:27:15 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: A_perfect_lady
This “triggering” nonsense has gotten out of hand.

Of course, hypothetically everyone has a "trigger" somewhere. Generally we don't pay them any heed, and just get on with it. But when a "trigger" threatens to disrupt one's functioning, as with these etiolated little flowers, it is a sign of mental illness, not worthwhile sensitivity. These pathetic creatures need therapy not college. They are clearly not ready for the cold cruel realities awaiting them.

26 posted on 05/13/2015 3:29:07 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Zeneta
Here’s a clue and a place to start. The number 1, is aggressive.

You know, I've suspected that for awhile.

You don't notice it, but it's always starting things.

27 posted on 05/13/2015 3:32:17 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

I’ll go even further - did you ever notice that in any of the great disasters in history both math and physics are involved? Why we didn’t ban them long ago, I just can’t imagine...


28 posted on 05/13/2015 3:33:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: nickcarraway

The Greek myths are stories the Greeks told about their gods and expressed their ideas on such things as good and evil and human failings. How can this possibly be one of those “trigger points”? During WW-II kids their age were enduring the horrors of a world war fighting the Nazis and the Japanese to save the world from fascism. Today’s generation are epitomized by Obamacare’s metro sexual pajama boy who needed a cup of hot chocolate to fortify himself to sign up for Obamacare and who would piss himself if he even saw photos of what his grandfathers generation did during the war.


29 posted on 05/13/2015 3:42:30 PM PDT by The Great RJ (Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what t)
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To: cherokee1

It was not the Holy Romans it was our friends the Muzzles. Their rational? If it wasn’t in the Koran it wasn’t true and if it was then we didn’t another source for the truth. The Prophet be praised. Allah’s clark bar.


30 posted on 05/13/2015 3:44:00 PM PDT by redangus
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To: Billthedrill
I’ll go even further - did you ever notice that in any of the great disasters in history both math and physics are involved? Why we didn’t ban them long ago, I just can’t imagine...

I know. Because once they got together and started breeding, they made... statistics.

And from statistics we got Social Sciences.

And from Social Sciences...

...Liberals.

31 posted on 05/13/2015 3:54:45 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

More than one makes a group.

Small or large it doesn’t matter.

Once in a group, even a “like minded” group, you will have lost your liberty in some way.


32 posted on 05/13/2015 4:11:09 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: nickcarraway

History begins when they enter College?


33 posted on 05/13/2015 4:23:06 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: Zeneta
More than one makes a group. Small or large it doesn’t matter. Once in a group, even a “like minded” group, you will have lost your liberty in some way.

Liberals make groups TO lose themselves.

34 posted on 05/13/2015 4:25:20 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: redangus

Muzzies hadn’t been formed yet. The Holy Romans burned the library at Alexandria, Egypt about 391 AD-—300 years before Moohamud. Constantine, usually considered the first Popester, or Holy Roman leader, apparently thot there was just too much heresy in all those historical accounts of pretty much everything that was known before. So he had it torched. I suppose his burn-fest made the later churchdicks think it was OK to run the Inquisition for 500 years or so. It’s fascinating just how much our various churches have tried their best to keep us from having flush terlets for the past 2,000 years or so.

Maybe we’re seeing the millenials form a new church. Call it the Church of Idiocracy——that movie was right on.


35 posted on 05/13/2015 5:21:05 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Billthedrill
The pattern I've observed in a couple of web forums is: "Oh, for me that needs a trigger alert. I am a victim of abuse and I, I, I, I, I..."

Yep. Sounds like reddit.

36 posted on 05/13/2015 5:57:12 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: nickcarraway

I think there are so many already written papers about classical lit floatig around out there that a) even in an original paper nobody will think of anything new to say, and b) maybe it’s time to look at other books that don’t have so many pre-written papers one can tap and hand in as their own work.


37 posted on 05/14/2015 12:16:57 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Not even close.

What are you Maya Angelou's agent?

38 posted on 05/14/2015 12:19:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Talisker
Sitting here laughing! This is why I read Free Republic! Very good! :-)
39 posted on 05/14/2015 12:23:39 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: nickcarraway

Seriously, douche, do you always have to be a presumptive jerk?

Why the hell would you think that’s what I meant they should read.

I mean are you just so antisocial you cannot help yourself?

Cheezits. Maybe look at what you write before actually hitting the Enter key.


40 posted on 05/14/2015 12:40:01 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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