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Posted on 01/24/2015 10:31:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
At Arizona State University (ASU), students can now learn about the “problem of whiteness” in America.
The public university is offering an English class to its students this semester called “Studies in American Literature/Culture: U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness.”
According to the class description on ASU’s website, students will be reading The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, Critical Race Theory, Everyday Language of White Racism, Playing in the Dark, and The Alchemy of Race and Rights.
At time of publication, 18 students were enrolled in the course offered at ASU’s Tempe campus. Students can receive three credits for successfully completing the course.
The class syllabus is not available online.
"I think it shows the significant double standard of higher education institutions," James Malone, a junior economics major, told Campus Reform. "They would never allow a class talking about the problem of 'blackness.' And if they did, there would be an uproar about it. But you can certainly harass people for their apparent whiteness."
The course, first reported by the Pundit Press, is taught by Lee Bebout, an assistant professor of English at ASU. According to his faculty page, critical race theory is one of his research interests.
Bebout, who is white, has previously taught classes titled “Transborder Chicano Literature,” “Adv Studies Theory/Criticism,” and “American Ethnic Literature,” among others.
Campus Reform was unable to reach Bebout by phone in time of publication.
At one time the purpose of a university was to attempt to teach the Truth and, in so doing, instill the love for the search for Truth. It was Aristotle or Kant as the Truth, not a “perspective”.
Try to explain this to any “educated” millennial, or anyone under 60 for that matter, and you will get blank stares or descriptions of how in high school they already were force fed Bible verses or To Kill a Mockingbird, then the requisite claims about how great diversity is, or that your truth is yours and mine is mine.
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Looks like Glenn Beck’s psycho twin.
oooooooh sh!t... right???
young skulls full of mush...
It originally extended where Jesus sent the Apostles.
That is an uninformative tautology. The Lord made a way too.
Aristotle or Kant as approximations to truth... they could still be debated.
The Anglican Church is huge in Africa; do you remember when their bishops were publicly opposing the changes set forth by Canterbury regarding homosexuality? They outnumber English Anglicans by more than 10:1; all the “white” Anglicans could do was threaten to withhold money.
African Anglican bishops publicly compared homosexuals to dogs and said the changes were an indication that the Devil was alive and well in their Church; they pulled no punches (and made it clear that they were the heirs of serious Christianity, not England).
Both the university and professor should be facing prosecution for anti-constitutional discrimination.
I don’t understand; Christianity was originally spread to the Gentiles by the Apostles set forth by Jesus.
I’m not sure of the point you are trying to make either, unless it is an insinuation that Christ in fact does not keep on sending missionaries today.
They were doing a better thing than Canterbury, assuming that they viewed themselves as stewards of the blessings of Christ and not moralists in a vacuum. And yet it could go further.
In all the brouhaha over homosexuality sometimes the simplest things get overlooked. Buggery is mean. The building of a “love” (more like worship in its characteristics and intensity) structure around it puts meanness on the throne for those caught up in it. It is only through eyes such as Christ’s that we can pity their situation rather than damn them immediately to hell.
The love and kindness of Christ can and will supplant that.
I was commenting on the fact that more importantly than trade routes, the original spread of Christianity was determined by the itineraries of the twelve apostles (which may overlap trade routes, but certainly didn’t into Africa). Much of the early Church there was spread by St. Mark, later than the apostles themselves.
They (like any serious Christian) couldn’t reconcile the permissive attitude towards homosexuality with the Bible. There is also something very “unbiblical” about female clergy (which is why serious Christians, Jews, and Muslims don’t have them) - it is obviously a deviation from the script(ure).
So coming full circle, even considering the church in various formats came into Africa, why are black people seeing this particular set of troubles today? Why are they yielding to certain kinds of sin that are less prevalent among white people?
I can’t figure out everything of the divine plan and neither can any other mortal.
Better stated: the professors presented the seminal thinkers as having the Truth, and challenged the collegians to choose among the greats.
If the only thinking done today is how you feel about someone’s skin color or what you do in your bedroom, we are almost done as a society.
Well that is a false dichotomy, if they really did. One had to be a Kantian or an Aristotlean and defend one or the other etc... but that is artificial.
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