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Post by tubman13 on Nov 19, 2015 17:15:03 GMT -6
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Post by Colt45 on Nov 20, 2015 8:26:02 GMT -6
Tom, This concerns me very much. Not only are they out-breeding us, which within 50 years or so, will make them the majority, but with the massive importation they will dominate us well within 50 years, more likely within 20. I just hope we wake up as a country before we look up one day and realize we don't recognize this place anymore, and we also notice there is no such thing as a constitution and bill of rights.
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Post by jodak on Jun 3, 2016 8:02:47 GMT -6
Dave,
As an ex college administrator I thought that you might enjoy this, the latest posting by the fellow that you got a kick out of before.
fredoneverything.org/
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Post by dave on Jun 3, 2016 18:24:21 GMT -6
I gotta admire Fred's ability to send an arrow straight to the heart of a subject. He has a talent that not many posses where you can verbal assault them and they have no clue they are had. Regards Dave
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Post by jodak on Jun 15, 2016 15:34:43 GMT -6
Another "concern". Wouldn't want the little darlings to be harmed by Shakespeare and Chaucer
Yale may cave on English poets course after students called it 'too white' "The English faculty at Yale looks prepared to surrender to social justice warriors demanding a rewrite of the storied “Major English Poets” course. The faculty’s chair appeared to make concessions after calls for the compulsory course be “decolonized” because it features too many white male authors. Students claimed that they were “so alienated that they have to walk out of the room” because of a preponderance of authors like Shakespeare and Chaucer, who “actively harm” them. In a petition demanding that minority writers be injected into the curriculum, students left their teachers little room for dissent. They concluded: “It is your responsibility as educators to listen to student voices. We have spoken. We are speaking. Pay attention.” In the wake of widespread news coverage of the course, Professor Langdon Hammer responded in a blog post on the faculty website. While noting the course – which dates from the 1920s – has “never been in the news before”, Hammer said it “seems fitting for students and faculty to raise questions” about the content."
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Post by dave on Jun 15, 2016 21:08:05 GMT -6
jodak "The inmates are running the asylum!" It would be extremely difficult to have a course entitled “Major English Poets” if they were not all white Anglo-Saxons. Universities offer many Literature Courses such as Arab-Islamic Literatures I: 500-1200, Arab-Islamic Literatures II:African-American Literature 1200-1900, African-American Literature, American Indian Literature, African-American Female Literature just as examples.
Demanding change just for change is not an educational decision and certainly not one to be decided by students. Students are not knowledgeable enough on their ones sans a college degree and they are, why go to college?
Young students are demanding change and concessions in an attempt to see how much sway that have and are just screaming to be heard and have themselves validated as an instruments of change. Regards Dave
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Post by jodak on Jun 16, 2016 8:40:58 GMT -6
Dave,
My thoughts exactly. However, I am not as disturbed by seemingly everyone and special interest group always making "demands" as I am by the caving into those demands and pandering to them by the establishment, in this case Yale. I'm sure that Yale has a very long list of rejected applicants who would really like to be there and more than happy to learn about Major English Poets, so, instead of pandering to the perpetually offended, they should tell them to take a hike and provide a Yale education to someone who really wants and would appreciate it. As a private institution they are not beholden to "the public" to give them what they demand, and I would dare say that a very large proportion of the demanders are actually receiving a high level of financial aid in order to attend Yale, so, again, I think that those who don't appreciate the opportunity that they are being given should make way for those that do.
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Post by Colt45 on Jun 16, 2016 12:23:36 GMT -6
Well said, Jodak. It's high time we told all the prima donnas out there to leave if they don't like it. This politically correct pandering has gone on way too long. No one is guaranteed a right not to be offended by anything. It's time these sissys grew up.
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Post by jodak on Aug 25, 2016 10:42:03 GMT -6
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Post by tubman13 on Aug 25, 2016 12:52:07 GMT -6
What an interesting concept, going to a university to think. I hope they don't have all of the make me feel good about myself courses. I doubt it/hope not.
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Post by dave on Aug 25, 2016 18:42:31 GMT -6
Of all the universities that I have visited and read about the University of Chicago never entered my top 10 of reality schools. On my 2 visits to this venerable institution I was informed that I, as a male white Southerner, was responsible for the enslavement of blacks as well as the mistreatment of people of color through the establishment of "Jim Crow" laws and the Civil Rights fights post World War II. I attempted, failed miserably, to explain slavery was established under the American government and flag long before the life of the Confederacy which only lasted from February of 1861 to May of 1865. The Missouri Compromise and Dred Scott case were of no interest as they did not fit their views of the South and especially a Mississippian. To be honest I do not believe any of the many folks who shared their opinions and thoughts had ever heard of the 36°30′ latitude being the deciding line between free and slave states.
To see that University of Chicago is willing to allow democracy to flourish on campus is outstanding. The possibility of the Ivy League schools might follow their lead would be heartening to my soul. In my years of working with college students, of various faiths and races, I always stressed that they were here to educate themselves both in knowledge and interacting with people. This country was established to provide all citizens the rights needed to live in freedom and prosper. To waste the sacrifice of far too many men and women who gave their lives in defense of this nation would be a sacrilege. The future of America is only as good as its young people who are the seed corn. Regards Dave
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