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Ivy League prof floats idea of racial justice strike, hundreds of academics fall in line
Campus Reform ^ | August 31, 2020 | Jezzamine Wolk

Posted on 09/02/2020 7:06:56 AM PDT by C19fan

More than 600 scholars have committed to halting their teaching duties for two days to participate in a teach-in on racism and police violence.

It started when University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Anthea Butler tweeted last week, “I would be down as a professor to follow the NBA and Strike for a few days to protest police violence in America.”

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: antheabutler; bigotry; blm; college; pennsylvania; racists; uofpennsylvania; woke
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To: C19fan

Do it. Pretty please do it.

Wreck the whole business model. What Covid didn’t wreck, the professors will take care of.


21 posted on 09/02/2020 7:20:01 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: PGR88

Yep, it’s amazing how many people who add nothing signifiant to society are boycotting/striking their work.


22 posted on 09/02/2020 7:20:03 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: C19fan
Every leftist prof should boycott teaching for the next twenty years.

We might then create a generation of young folks who are competent despite attending college.

23 posted on 09/02/2020 7:20:49 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: lodi90

The radical left has been pushing for a “general strike” for weeks/months.

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And if the productive people in this country went on strike they would be the first to complain about its harmful impact on society.


24 posted on 09/02/2020 7:21:10 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: C19fan

If 600 scholars halted their teaching duties for two days in order to protest “police violence”, there would be no adverse effect.

If 600 law enforcement officers halted their duties for two days, the effect would be disastrous.


25 posted on 09/02/2020 7:21:30 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: C19fan

With hundreds of Professors on strike, 10’s of thousands of college kids decided it was time for some serious day drinking.


26 posted on 09/02/2020 7:21:54 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: Sirius Lee

A resounding YES to both of your points!


27 posted on 09/02/2020 7:22:52 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: nwrep

She does have a great future as a model for mops !


28 posted on 09/02/2020 7:23:38 AM PDT by Reily
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies Anthea Butler tweeted last week, “I would be down as a professor to follow the NBA and Strike for a few days to protest police violence in America.”
There's an associate professor and an area of study that should be at any university.

29 posted on 09/02/2020 7:23:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: C19fan
She's an Activist College Professor.......there to indoctrinate students.


30 posted on 09/02/2020 7:27:58 AM PDT by caww (Every politician should serve two terms...Only two terms!)
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To: nwrep

Boy, oh boy! How can UPenn afford to lose this professor for even a minute???


31 posted on 09/02/2020 7:31:30 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: SES1066

I think we found the problem.


32 posted on 09/02/2020 7:41:29 AM PDT by Eddie01 (NRA)
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To: SES1066
Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies -snip-
Professor Butler’s research and writing spans African American religion and history, race, politics, Evangelicalism, gender and sexuality, media, and popular culture

Figures.
A professor of made up garbage. She writes on sexuality?
When is the last time she got laid?
With her looks, she probably has to pay someone to get any. Why would anyone even miss a professor in sexuality if she didn't exist?

33 posted on 09/02/2020 7:46:13 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: C19fan

Last night when I turned on my TV it was oddly set on a PBS Channel. I say oddly, because I don’t watch PBS?

Be that as it may, they are running their telethon series to raise money. Last night’s “documentary” was dealing with Historic Black Colleges and the struggle for education. I was going to change the channel, but instead opted to let it play in the background.

It covered from the time of slavery and not being allowed to learn to read to WB Dubois and up through the current failing of black colleges. Which my first thought was...see...we are moving past the perceived need for black colleges and people of color have moved onto regular campuses. This isn’t sad news, it should be good news.

But something else struck me too. At some point in the mid-century black colleges turned from education to focus on the civil rights struggle. And as a nation where we say all men are created equal, it was needed at the time especially as the deep south continued on its violent discriminatory path.

Somewhere along the line though, it seems to me that the black community has forsaken the role of good education in the struggle against prejudice and civil rights discourses. The great minds that came out of HBCU’s have faded into obscurity for a very different kind of life.

Several generations in mass numbers have forsaken education as their escape from the poverty of race. In the annals of their history at one point they valued education and something so common as learning to read, that historic pictures of newly freed slaves holding books were so important, that they were included in photographs at that time period.

So to the Ivy League professors looking for a social justice strike...who took the black communities best shot of avoiding a life of crime and poverty away from them? How did people of color lose their pursuit of happiness?

Can the pursuit of happiness coincide with their God given civil rights? And what should that look like? Did the civil rights movement ultimately destroy the black community? Now that’s a sharp question to ask.

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/tell-them-we-are-rising/


34 posted on 09/02/2020 7:50:01 AM PDT by EBH (This had better be the last time I vote like my entire life depended on it.)
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To: C19fan

Could you make it for a year? I’m not feeling the love with just two days.


35 posted on 09/02/2020 7:55:51 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: C19fan

Dock their pay.

Make your political action on your own time.

You have the right to free speech but your right does not require me to pay for the practice of that right.

If I pay you for a service I expect 100% of the service I paid for.


36 posted on 09/02/2020 8:05:08 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirs)
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To: SES1066
These people are psychotic nuts. Problems in their souls that run deep.
37 posted on 09/02/2020 8:12:22 AM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: C19fan

So after making people pay insane tuition for glorified Zoom presentations you want to “strike” as well.

This will kill a lot of colleges already on the brink.


38 posted on 09/02/2020 8:20:24 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: C19fan

“Scholars”?


39 posted on 09/02/2020 8:22:38 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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To: C19fan

There needs to be a class action lawsuit against many universities


40 posted on 09/02/2020 8:26:13 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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