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Berkeley students outraged course reading includes Plato, Aristotle but nothing from transgenders
Campus Reform ^
| January 22, 2015
| Maggie Lit
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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aristotle; berkeley; bias; college; familyvalues; foucault; fruitsandnuts; hegel; hobbes; homosexualagenda; liberalagenda; locke; lofan; marx; occupythesyllabus; plato; sexism; ucberkeley; uofcalifornia; weber
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To: Zakeet
all of whom are white men, Ayn Rand should be included
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:15:59 PM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Best approach would be to identify the ringleaders, then their pay source, then go after them, picking them off and disposing of them one by one.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:19:04 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:20:07 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Red Badger
We've all seen the Pompeian fresco of Greek horn dog Priapus proudly weighing his trouser-trout on scales.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:20:22 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Zakeet
Maybe they could add Bodecia, Joan of Arc and the heroic Greek Women of Zalongo
The Dance of Zalongo (Greek: Χορός του Ζαλόγγου, Horos tou Zalongou) was a mass suicide of women from Souli and their children during the Souliote War of 1803, near the village of Zalongo in Epirus, in the then-Ottoman Empire
The accompanying video song complete with English language subtitles should be mandatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZGAPbzUiqM
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:21:10 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
To: Zakeet
What idiots.
If there were any “transgenders” in ancient times, they weren’t writing books on philosophy.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:21:46 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: Zakeet
Duh, you have your whole life to read that stuff. Duh!
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:24:55 PM PST
by
bboop
(does not suffer fools gladly)
To: Zakeet
Let these weirdos start their own university.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:26:26 PM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Everytime the cash register rings in a gun store, a Founding Father gets his wings.)
To: Uncle Miltie
Well, Al Sharpton pointed that out in a more eloquent way: “taught philosophy before Socrates and dem Greek Homos ever did”
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:35:09 PM PST
by
Augustinian monk
(" If you ain't Muslim, you ain't Shiite")
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:35:24 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Open Up!" "Must be another UPS delivery, honey.")
To: Zakeet
Boycott...fine, they already paid for the course...no attendance to me means a failure.
Meanwhile, if they want some material about fags and the transgenders, they are close enought to ground zero for that, just cross the bridge and stop in the Castro District. They can consider that a lab or a field trip.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:37:26 PM PST
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
To: mjp
LOL! St. Augustine (African), Anna Comnena.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:39:16 PM PST
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
To: Zakeet
Then they can fail the class.
Screw ‘em.
To: Zakeet
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. At my alma mater, disrupting classes was an academic offense that could result in discipline. I don't suppose that matters at Berzerkeley.
To: Zakeet
I have heard it put much more rudely, but it comes as a revelation to a lot of these brats that historical thinkers considered who you liked to have sex with to be a private matter and that intellectual life transcended it.
To: Zakeet
Law is about translation, namely translating classical texts. But I guess no one wants to translate truth factually rejecting transgender dangerous “creativity” in matters of truth.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:45:33 PM PST
by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
To: Zakeet
Good grief.
Ever since 3 shrinks said homosexuality/cross dressing was not a mental illness we have let the loons out of the nuthouse and now we have them and their supporters thinking it’s OK now.
Go to school get an education, not perversion.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:47:38 PM PST
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: Kenny Bunk
If I remember correctly from some old Free Republic post, the course was called Francophone African Lesbian Novelists of the Caribbean.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:51:15 PM PST
by
golux
To: Zakeet
Let’s state the obvious...Plato is just too hard for them.
And, while I’m at it....
Must.
Clear.
Mind.
Of.
That.
Abortion....er...picture.
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Um, they have. It is called the University of California at Berkley...
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:59:39 PM PST
by
piytar
(If you don't know what taqiyya and the doctrine of abrogation are, you are a fool!)
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