Reed College to revise Western Civ class after protests call it too ‘Caucasoid’ and ‘Eurocentric’

College Fix ^ | February 2, 2018 | Michael Jones

[C19fan]

Reed College leaders have agreed to revise a mandatory freshman humanities course focused on the Western Canon in the wake of a protracted student protest campaign against the class that decried it as too “Caucasoid” and “Eurocentric.”

[C19fan]

Another surrender to the SJW (Social Justics Warrior) mob. Hey ho, hey ho, Western Civ has got to go!!!

[PGR88]

But Reed College on the list of debt-bubble fed colleges which will die during the next economic downturn.

[Boogieman]

Their African Studies classes were a bit too afrocentric for my liking as well.

[D Rider]

??? It’s WESTERN CIV! How can it not be Eurocentric?

[Professional]

My daughter is a freshman in HS, and an honor student.

That said, she thought Abraham Lincoln had something to do with the fall of the Soviet Union...

McEducations...

[Buckeye McFrog]

When I went to college they did not allow students to make-up words.

[Fiji Hill]

I'm surprised Reed College has a mandatory course in Western civilization in 2018. I was on the campus in 1965, and at that time, it was already a hotbed of leftism. The People's World, a Communist Party newspaper, was readily available on the campus, and the students and faculty treated Comrade Pete Seeger like the rest of the country treated Elvis Presley or the Beatles.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My friend’s son, a very bright kid, thought that the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise was named after the TV starship and not vice-versa.

[Professional]

We all know that the Civil War and America was for slavery and that it took Ferris Bueller and black people to fight the south for the white people that refused to fight so that Abraham Lincoln could sign the declaration of independence and tear down the Berliner Wall.

[Professional]

LOL...

Oh man, my kids tell me stories about their school, just shockingly stupid. They go to one of the worst schools in the state, nation for drop outs...a drop out factory.

I kind of like them seeing the REAL world. It will only get better for them once they leave. Meanwhile, I went to a lilly white private school and lived a sheltered life until I hit reality.

[Red Badger]

Uh, it’s called ‘Western Civilization’ for a reason.

Not African Civ or Asian Civ..................

[chuckee]

Caucasoid? Do we still use that word as it seems that we have taken negroid off the acceptable list at the request of the the celestial word police.And God forbid anyone who refers to colored people other than the only authorized entity with permission to do so - the NAACP

[Pietro]

So they're going to replace Plato w/ what?

So they're going to replace Machiavelli w/ what?

So they're going to replace Shakespeare w/ what?

So they're going to replace Locke w/ what?

[Fiji Hill]

It’s WESTERN CIV! How can it not be Eurocentric?

At my alma mater Occidental College, they got around that by simply calling it the History of Civilization, or "Civ." It included a heavy emphasis on Chinese and Japanese civilization but also a unit on sub-Saharan Africa. I quickly came to the conclusion that sub-Saharan Africa had little to contribute to world civilization. Whenever a civilization arose in that part of the world, it usually took the form of a despotic kingdom or empire that was usually short-lived.

The quality of what we learned also depended on the professor. So our discussion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of the Young Werther quicly morphed into an examination of President Nixon's "war crimes" in Cambodia.

In my sophomore year, they got rid of Civ altogether and replaced it with a series of electives that included a class on "Fidel Castro's Revolutionary Socialism."

[blues-train]

The further Reed strays from its historic classical (great books) education model, the weaker they become. Even with their leftist focus, they were once a great small college. That is quickly passing. Yet the Trustees continue to be blind to this very obvious shift and will be left wondering (in the next couple of years) why enrollment has plunged. Sad.

[17th Miss Regt]

So they're going to replace Plato w/ what? Michel Foucault

So they're going to replace Machiavelli w/ what? Saul Alinsky

So they're going to replace Shakespeare w/ what? Maya Angelou

So they're going to replace Locke w/ what? Eldridge Cleaver

[Kenton]

Too Caucazoid and Eurocentric"?

Well, maybe that's because “Caucasoid” and “Eurocentric” describe the history of Western Civilization. That's it.

These are the same self-loathing pale-skinned trust fund babies that really believe that being white is shameful.

We need to teach these losers that to the rest of us, calling white people "racist" is the equivalent of calling a black person a "nigger". It is an epithet, and it may provoke a violent reaction.

[Unam Sanctam]

Kids have heads full of mush. Why should they get to dictate the terms of their education?

[Deplorable American1776]

What part of Western don’t they understand? The Western part is Europe...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks C19fan.