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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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The classroom environment at Berkeley is so hostile to women, people of color, queer folks and other marginalized subjects without my words of wisdom that it is difficult for students to focus on course material!
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posted on
01/22/2015 12:58:37 PM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
I hear Socrates swung both ways .....
..... does that count?
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:01:25 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
To: Zakeet
Well, those Greek guys were pederasts. That ought to count for SOMETHING.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:02:19 PM PST
by
hlmencken3
(“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
To: Zakeet
Talk about first world problems. And that picture is very disturbing.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:02:44 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Je suis ein Berliner.)
To: Zakeet
History is racist, bigoted and homophobic.
Damn all them evil white people for inventing stuff.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:03:19 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
To: Uncle Miltie
Yes. Of course. They also have no representation from dogs, cats, birds and fish, not to even mention the ape culture.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:03:48 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
To: Zakeet
classical social theory
um.. earth to idiots! Of course CLASSICAL studies is only going to cover the works of white men!
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:04:54 PM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: Zakeet
The modern college "experience":
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:05:10 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Zakeet
Due to a clerical error,two students at the University of California, Berkeley who are too stupid to live, let alone matriculate, have been suspended by the provost. Details at 11......
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:05:34 PM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Zakeet
How do they know they weren’t transgenders?
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:06:11 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: LostInBayport
At Berkeley, that has always been the experience for those in non-solid majors.
.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:07:22 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Zakeet
They are Occupied with Priapus..........
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:07:53 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Zakeet
It’s a Man in a Dress RUN
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:08:29 PM PST
by
molson209
(Blank)
To: Zakeet
The most amazing part of this story to me is that Berkeley still has a course that teaches Plato and Aristotle.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:08:38 PM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: AppyPappy
.
You’re right, Plato was a queer after all, so he could have been contemplating the knife.
.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:08:51 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Zakeet
“We at Jerkly. We wannabe stupid.”
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:09:45 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: Zakeet
The course syllabus employed a standardized canon of theory that ... ... elaborated on the works of history's great thinkers instead of some latter-day flash-in-the-pan nobodies who will not be remembered a day after they're dead.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:12:26 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: Zakeet; max americana
I have lived my life around the teachings of Marx.
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:14:32 PM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: Zakeet; golux
FYI, and for the offended of Berkeley:
immediately transfer to Yale, which has announced a new course for next term:
Francophone Transgendered Poets of West Africa.
This is an update of the course offered in my day, "Francophone Lesbian Poets of West Africa."
Do you think we are discussing the same poets?
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:14:42 PM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
(Gay Muslim Marxist from Mombasa as POTUS? Sure! What could possibly go wrong?)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
The most amazing part of this story to me is that Berkeley still has a course that teaches Plato and Aristotle. Sadly, that was my thought as well.
Just tried to hire someone from UCLA. Looked good on paper. Did not last the first day. Similar experience regarding a graduate from Berkley a little while ago.
I now simply consider those universities to be potential disqualifiers for new hires...
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posted on
01/22/2015 1:15:35 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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