“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
Such good little racists they are!
What’s next, genocide?
Which leaves you with who in the philosophy program beyond Mao and other totalitarians?
“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.
When Students make Demands you EXPEL THEM
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.
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!
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.
Inmates, asylum
Yeah, maybe they can study the philosophy of the black and Muslim slave traders in Africa and include great Asian philosophers like Mao Tse-tung and Pol Pot.
If you remove the works of those dreaded white males from the philosophy curriculum (and for that matter, the mathematics or physical sciences curricula), you’d wind up with about one or two paragraph’s worth of reading material left to cover. I suppose that the upside for the less motivated students will be a very easy curriculum.
They should just rename the philosophy major to “Europen Philosophy”, and then those people who WANT to study Aristotle, Kant, etc can do so, and the rest can major in Asian or African philosophy.
But you know that won’t satisfy them. They want to STOP people from being exposed to rigorous material. They want to STOP people from being exposed to true critical thinking.
Well I’d like to ban students and universities. Don’t mean stem of course but why should we pay people who hate us?
The Left is going to so thoroughly reject its own European/white founders that they're going to wind up rejecting Leftism altogether and come out as distinctly non-Leftist pre-modern shamans or something.
Whities aren’t included in any protected class in today’s PC World of Identity Politics. They are fair game for BOC (bigots of color).
Mixed bag. Some of the philosophers of the last 400 years have helped us to think in new ways.
They’ve also introduced us to meaninglessness, relativism and atheism.
Not sure they can be replaced with other skin colors just for the fun of it.
So they want to ban Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and so on just because of their race? I thought these were the heroes of the progressive Left.
Asia may have a few philosophers to cover, Africa? Not sure there. If the students are studying ONLY Asian or African Philosophies, then it is a short course.
My take: attention whores at work.
They can use the Bible because just about everyone in that book is Asian. Other great Asian philosophers include Heraclitus of Ephesus, Zenodotus of Ephesus, and John of Damascus.
Great African philosophers include Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Ptolemy of Alexandria, Hypatia of Alexandria, and Moses ben Maimon, aka Maimonides.