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Students At Top University Want to Ban White Philosophers
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Posted on 01/09/2017 12:52:27 PM PST by 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”.


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1 posted on 01/09/2017 12:52:27 PM PST by TigerClaws
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makes me want to buy them toasters for their bath


2 posted on 01/09/2017 12:54:19 PM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen
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If this happens, the UK will have slipped a little more into History’s trash bin created by PCism.


3 posted on 01/09/2017 12:55:31 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Challenge Freepers, who post a bs article from the left and they don't challenge it!)
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To: TigerClaws

Our universities need fewer students.

There is obviously a student perception they are there to educate the universities.


4 posted on 01/09/2017 12:55:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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To: TigerClaws

What is the name of this “Top University?”


5 posted on 01/09/2017 12:55:35 PM PST by Cowboy Bob
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If I were dean:

Isn’t that cute..

No.


6 posted on 01/09/2017 12:55:54 PM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: TigerClaws

and next week ,Book Burning


7 posted on 01/09/2017 12:56:07 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: TigerClaws

Can this crap please stop...just stop.


8 posted on 01/09/2017 12:56:10 PM PST by Blue Turtle
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Huhhh?

In terms or humanity and intellectual evolution, that will put you back to the caves....


9 posted on 01/09/2017 12:57:01 PM PST by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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To: TigerClaws

At a certain point, they’re going to have to stop referring to these as “top universities.”


10 posted on 01/09/2017 12:57:43 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: TigerClaws

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


11 posted on 01/09/2017 12:57:44 PM PST by nickedknack
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To: TigerClaws

In other words they think one class of 20 minutes should cover an entire semester.


12 posted on 01/09/2017 12:58:05 PM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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I’d like to ban all “black music” —

Wait.

What?

My statement is vile, and hateful, and racist???

Yeah. Let’s avoid saying stupid stuff like that. Okay?


13 posted on 01/09/2017 12:58:13 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: TigerClaws
What do we want?

IGNORANCE!

When do we want it?

NOW!

14 posted on 01/09/2017 12:58:45 PM PST by servo1969
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The college has Oriental in it’s name - that’s racist.


15 posted on 01/09/2017 12:59:09 PM PST by struggle (The)
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To: TigerClaws

The slow but steady drip, drip, drip of white racism and bigotry is having an effect on both sides of the pond.


16 posted on 01/09/2017 12:59:22 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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RACISITS!


17 posted on 01/09/2017 1:00:10 PM PST by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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Well, there are a few great Asian philosophers, such as Confucius, who could certainly be included if they are not already. But Plato and Aristotle and their like cannot reasonably be dropped. And I don’t know of any great African philosophers, I’m afraid.


18 posted on 01/09/2017 1:00:50 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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The irony is that they are depriving themselves and thus putting themselves at a disadvantage.


19 posted on 01/09/2017 1:01:03 PM PST by Pietro
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“War is Peace / Freedom is Slavery / Ignorance is Strength” ....................


20 posted on 01/09/2017 1:01:12 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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