Students At Top University Want to Ban White Philosophers

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[TigerClaws]

By Heat Street Staff | 3:30 am, January 9, 2017

Students at one of Europe’s top universities are calling for philosophers such as Plato, Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell (pictured) to be dropped from the curriculum because they are white.

The student union at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London is demanding that when studying philosophy “the majority of philosophers on our courses” should be from Africa and Asia as opposed to being white, Western thinkers.

The students claim this is part of a strategy to “decolonise” the college, which they regard as a “white institution”.

[353FMG]

Our top universities are the source of hatred against America.

[SMARTY]

“The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.”

E. Hoffer

[chris37]

Such good little racists they are!

What’s next, genocide?

[tbw2]

Which leaves you with who in the philosophy program beyond Mao and other totalitarians?

[Red Badger]

And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid.

I don't even know of any mediocre ones..................

[allendale]

“Top universities” have devolved. They are no longer centers of academic excellence and inquiry. Its what happens when you are forced to admit and accommodate hordes of unqualified students.

[eyeamok]

When Students make Demands you EXPEL THEM

[Hieronymus]

And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid.

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Augustine of Course. And if I remember correctly, the Neo-Platonists were largely centred in Egypt.

[rightwingcrazy]

“And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid.”

Moses, but that goes back a ways.

[eyeamok]

And I don’t know of any great African philosophers

Jesse Jackson
Al Sharpton
Samuel Jackson

The Best they have

[Jim Noble]

The School of Oriental and African Studies?

Who cares what they do? I believe in radical freedom of association. They want to study whatever African philosophers have come up with, I’m fine wid it.

[econjack]

Makes perfect sense if you think about it. Just think what this does to the pool of information you have to study to prep for final exams...damn near nothing!

[GunsareOK]

According to Rush, the University of London.

My idea of a top (college) anyway is Hillsdale. I’ll bet none of this claptrap would fly there.

[Oberon]

So... are white people allowed to exist? And if they do exist, are they allowed to have an identifiable and distinctive culture?

If the answers to the above questions are "yes" and "yes," then the next question that follows is "...then how, where, and in what fashion are white people allowed to practice that culture?"

You would think that they'd be allowed to have a college without catching a raft of crap.

[DJ Taylor]

What’s next, you ask.

In our country’s recent history we’ve celebrated diversity in our population as if it were a good thing. However, one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.

Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations were forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grew among them and the more violently they broke apart, but break apart they did, or genocide has settled the issue once and for all.

[NonValueAdded]

Inmates, asylum

[Jim Noble]

then how, where, and in what fashion are white people allowed to practice that culture

I do not recommend the School of Oriental and African Studies for that purpose. Just a hunch.

[Dr. Sivana]

The student union at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London is demanding that when studying philosophy “the majority of philosophers on our courses” should be from Africa and Asia as opposed to being white, Western thinkers.

I am not sure these people even know what philosophy is. A list of sayings or customs (e.g. Confucious) isn't really philosophy, good as all of those wise sayings may be. One might be able to describe some ancient religions (e.g. Hinduism) as having an underlying philosophy, but it really is true that classic philosophy was invented by the Greeks, and you don't have much generated outside of the heirs of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle until modern times (last five hundred years or so). Even Averroes (11th century Muslim philosopher) built off of these men.

You may as well say that most teaching on Ayurvedic Medicine should come from the Norse. It would make just about as much sense.

[TheTimeOfMan]

"Great Oriental and African philosophers such as Mao Tse Tung and Robert Mugabe."

Do not forget the contributions of various authors to the "Philosophy of Proper Preparation of Long Pig". It has been making a comeback world wide over the last 8 years!

[Dr. Sivana]

If the answers to the above questions are "yes" and "yes," then the next question that follows is "...then how, where, and in what fashion are white people allowed to practice that culture?"

You are using something approaching a Socratioc technique. I don't think that's allowed.