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Car Culture. A course today, a Department next year, a Faculty the year after that.
UCLA teaching about the oppression of car culture is like the University of Toronto teaching about the oppression of hockey culture. Paid for by low income Californians with money they'd rather use for headers and paint jobs. It's like Oklahoma offering a course on the oppressive nature of football.
The course will give 5 units of humanities studies.....yeesh, I have two college degrees, but my brain locked up by the second paragraph.
Los Angeles is offeringa ... UCLA course blames 'car culture' for 'spatial injustice'
A course being offered this summer at UCLA aims to teach students how “car culture” and other factors produce “spatial injustice” in Los Angeles.
The five-credit course fulfills graduation requirements in both Diversity and Social Analysis.
“Students will investigate spatial justice and injustice in the multi-ethnic city through the lens of three thematic technologies,” the syllabus states, listing cars and highways, the Internet, and film and media as factors that contribute to spatial injustice.
Armed with a degree in this area, a graduate can look forward to a long and rewarding career of pumping gas.
Planners invariably expropriate and put new highways, transit lines, power lines etc.. through poorer neighborhoods not richer ones.
The Dakota Access pipeline could have taken a more northern route past Bismark through a whiter and richer area but NIMBYs got it moved south through Indian lands and more environmentally at-risk lake/water table area.
You do realize that it is all about economics when roads and utilities are built right? Transportation planning is (and should be) about moving people from one place to another in the safest and most economical way possible while also taking into consideration the businesses located along the route and projected growth. Safety is the utmost importance on that list. 100 years ago there were not many roads leaving cities across the US. Population and growth dictate what happens and where the need is along with safety considerations. Crash data, delays and a host of other things go into planning road routes.
And what happens when a road is planned and eminent domain takes place? Its all about the cost benefit analysis because it is a huge undertaking monitored by federal DOT to ensure all parties are treated fairly.
This class is not for learning it is for indoctrination like most humanities classes.
The Dakota pipeline issue cracks me up. Do you know how many pipelines are running across the US? This was an SJW dream to have this to protest. Where were they when all of these others were put in? And the mess they left is criminal.
I don't know what this thing is, but it must be bad and I'm going to make fun of it.
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Wow, folks are making a big fuss over a one-off, "Mickey Mouse," UCLA Summer Session course that anyone who's willing to cough up the fees can take for college credit.
Wow, folks are making a big fuss over a one-off, "Mickey Mouse," UCLA Summer Session course that anyone who's willing to cough up the fees can take for college credit.
Yeah. Kinda like handshakes and covfefe and hotel rooms and ......
I thought it would be about women's poor sense of spatial awareness (proven through studies). With practice, women who have poor special awareness can overcome this issue and learn to park without hitting things and recognize distance between the side of the road and the vehicle they are driving.
The tile-layers will be put to work by the people who take these
courses, because the old guard is dying off... new technologies,
new structures and new ideas that can sustain and enrich life
of all kinds is an INSPIRATIONAL motive. We need more inspiration
and less wanton greed; more virtuous endeavors and less useless commercialism.
The price for tile laying has come down and down.....as a result of the same forces (predatory capitalism) - to the point where, in many areas, a tile layer would have a hard time earning more than poverty wages.
In addition, the bodily strain means they can only work X number of years before they get the non-existent medical care that the GOP desires to remove....
Now - if one desires to be a great plumber of HVAC person.....that's a different story.
Cars are wonderful! I love cars, and the faster the better. Cars represent freedom. Freedom to go where I want and when I want.
Individual freedom? Then it must be wrong, said the far left.
They hate cars - auto racing, vintage car shows, cruising, road trips, trucks. They want to herd everyone into cities and force us to take subways, busses and Ubers, crowding in like roaches. Only the elite will have cars and freedom to travel independently.
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