Posted on 01/22/2015 12:58:37 PM PST by Zakeet
Two students at the University of California, Berkeley are calling for students to Occupy the syllabus, or consider dropping a course if it only includes the works of white men as class material.
Students Rodrigo Kazuo and Margaret Meg Perret wrote an op-ed in The Daily Californian, the independent student newspaper, titled Occupy the syllabus where they called for a student-wide occupation of all social science and humanities classes after they found their upper-division course on classical social theory lacked the works of women, trans people, and people of color.
The course syllabus employed a standardized canon of theory that began with Plato and Aristotle, then jumped to modern philosophers: Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Foucault, all of whom are white men, wrote the students. The syllabus did not include a single woman or person of color.
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
And all the women pilots that flew fighters and bombers from the mid west manufacturing plants to US airbases in the US, UK and Russia.....heroines all
The goal of racial and sex studies is that we achieve a color blind, sex blind society. How does stressing this kind of separation encourage that goal?
They are absolutely obsessed with race and sex. Everything evolves around it.
Where is your diplomatic gene, young fellow? I was trying to protect Warren Wilhelm's (aka "Bill DeBlasio") wife's identity! Bag: Cat out of. Over.
Why doesn’t Greek bisexuality count?
Must admit, I’m actually surprised they’d whine about Michel Foucault, considering he’s a major part of the reason why the LGBT movement as we know it gained huge traction, among other things.
And that pic is somewhat disturbing. Reminds me of this guy, Emperor Geldoblame from Baten Kaitos: Endless Wings and the Lost Ocean:
https://lparchive.org/Baten-Kaitos-Eternal-Wings-and-the-Lost-Ocean/Update%2024/16-lava13.jpg
I’d post the image directly, but unfortunately, it keeps giving me an x-icon even when I made sure the height and width parameters lined up, so I have to suffice with a link.
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