Posted on 02/06/2021 9:43:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
“Black Studies” professor Kehinde Andrews of Birmingham City University has denounced the Enlightenment as “little more than White identity politics” and “racist knowledge”.
Andrews, who is Britain’s inaugural professor of “black studies”, made the comments on social media while sharing a link to an interview with the Times Higher Education Supplement discussing his upcoming book, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World.
“The enlightenment was little more than White identity politics, yet its racist knowledge still underpins university education,” alleged Andrews, who has previously made waves by claiming that “the British Empire did far more harm to the world for a far more sustained period of time” than Nazi Germany, and that the patriotic song Rule, Britannia is “racist propaganda”, among other woke pronouncements.
In the interview itself, Andrews says of Enlightenment thinkers: “the argument has always been that you can separate out their racism from their moral theory. You really can’t!”
German philosopher Immanuel Kant comes in for particular criticism, with Andrew suggesting that his work was underpinned by an assumption that “African people obviously can’t think; white people can.”
Andrews characterises Kant as “essentially arguing that he can write the Critique of Pure Reason and we can have rights [in Europe] because of the superiority of the white race… That’s where you see the Enlightenment principles permeating universities, so you create a space for elite white men to create racist knowledge…”
The enlightenment was little more than White identity politics, yet its racist knowledge still underpins university education. Thanks to @timeshighered for the interview about #TheNewAgeOfEmpirehttps://t.co/0diNGaIYND
— Kehinde Andrews (@kehinde_andrews) February 6, 2021
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This level of dumbassery is simply astounding.
I am having trouble comprehending it.
Colleges and universities should just fold. Anyone who seriously wants to study any of the humanities can do so easily via books and online resources, including lectures, podcasts, and interest groups and forums.
All we need is trade schools, internships, and schools for specific careers such as medical schools. Even med schools are becoming woke now, though.
Only colleges employ people so astoundingly stupid and racist.
PROFESSOR...???
Leftist carry their dumbassery without limitation to the logical conclusion extremists go.
Met some blacks who don’t know their history; blacks who’ve invented stuff and those in the medical field as well.
Note tagline.
Enoch Powell tried to warn them.
Birmingham City University?
Are their degrees printed on the back of Coco Puffs cereal boxes?
No, make that on the back Thunderbird wine labels.
Shove it, buttwipes. Long past time to start calling you idiots IDIOTS.
What is there to say?
Andrews probably doesn’t know jack about the Enlightenment, never mind immanuel.
If this “professor” has ever even read Kant I’ll eat my hat.
“Inaugural professor”?
I guess UK hasn’t been stupid enough to have “black studies” decades back.
They will eventually turn many into the racists they claim them to be.
Bombshell resport! The Big Bang and everything that followed was a white supremacist conspiracy to create blacks for the purpose of discrimination.
-Supports Abortion because it kills 3 times more minority babies than white.
-Imposes slave wages on legal immigrants and minorities by flooding the labor market with cheap, illegal labor.
-Refuses to fight crime in minority neighborhoods because they really don't give a damn.
-Refuse to provide a meaningful education or school choice in minority neighborhoods because they want to keep minorities dependent on government handouts.
-(add your observations here ____)
In the world of University it is publish or perish.
This professor was hired to research Racism, so don’t be surprised that he sees racism everywhere. And as a professor he has to find racism in new places.
My issue is with the University. Why is it necessary to have so many people who’s job it is t to decide people.
Are these thoughts Andrew himself harbors about Africans? Asking for a friend.
They got their way and killed Western Civ for an entire generation of university and substituted it with Marxism, identity politics and politically correct culture
Unfortunately, we are finding Western Civilization is the only civilization that there ever was.
Western Civilization IS civilization and there is nothing to replace it with.
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