universities white privilege classes

[DauntlessDan]

Other universities offer such classes. Instead of promoting unity, it seems to promote racial division. It's one thing to examine cultural differences between different people's in order to promote better understanding and unity, but this singles out one group based upon race alone in a way that can generate animosity toward the study's subject group.

That's what your PC radicals want to do. Create divisions in society and play those divisions against each other to better foment revolution.

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by shiftymh

Next, they will make it mandatory and then give half of your credits to a transgendered black woman.

Perhaps you should step into a university some time rather than making silly statements that make you sound foolish.

[cephalopede]

Originally Posted by ALackOfCreativity

Those kind of classes tend to have very different results depending on whether or not they are mandatory.

When they are optional, it's mainly an ideological circle-jerk with a handful of kids in the back who don't really care but signed up anyway for the easy A. No harm, and if people are willing to spend their tuition dollars on that they should be able to, it's their money and time.

When it's mandatory, that's another story. First, you're wasting the time and money of students who are there to actually learn. Second, it does create problems because you have the crowd who would take it willingly arguing with a handful of students who disagree and can't or don't want to keep their mouth shut for the sake of maintaining a good grade in the class, with most of the students who are there only because it's required resenting being there, judging all the students who participate for doing so, and then going back to their dorms later to trash talk the professor, administration, and participating students behind closed doors.

There is one good argument for it, though: learning to make arguments for cases you don't believe in is good practice for when you have to do that in the future - obviously for those who enter law, but also for the much larger group of everyone who goes into the corporate world and inevitably will sometimes have to back their managers' decisions once made even when they disagree with them.

The class in question fulfilled a general ed requirement, so doubtless some students were more interested in the material than others. We still had a lot of lively but respectful discussion, and it was hard a circle-jerk.

Oh, and actual learning did occur.

[cephalopede]

Originally Posted by fat lou

Ableism? Goodnight.

The world is built for and on the assumption that people are able-bodied. That's ableism.

Are you going to deny that isn't true?

[cephalopede]

Originally Posted by NJBest

Perhaps you should step into a university some time rather than making silly statements that make you sound foolish.

Universities are just LIEburl Indoctrination Centers. No red-blooded Real American would be caught dead in one.

[Ceece]

We don't need "mandatory" social justice classes. That stuff is just a money/power grab for university and federal resources, and has nothing to do with a well rounded education for anyone. People really need to look past the pretty-feel-good talk.

[Mathguy]

Well, with all the standards Harvard has relaxed to bolster their mens basketball and football programs, it was inevitable that they were going to have to start offerring some curriculum for athletes like UNC and many others have\had.