They also want the college to drop courses that require reading, homework and “stuff”....
A real brainstorm from the Snowflakes. After all, it’s all the other races who made important contributions in that field. (Real reason: Less material to study for finals.)
I am sure they will make an exception for Karl Marx.
Students should be directed to drop their ideas into a shredder marked “suggestions.”
The whole idea is to eliminate Western Civilization because it’s based on Judeo-Christian values, and replace it with atheistic materialism, after passing through izzllam.
African Philosophers? boy that would be a short course.
But at least it would offer an additional easy A to the delicate snow flakes taking worthless degrees.
They should have been expelled immediately for this nonsense
Get them a coloring book, some play doh and a slinky. The snowflakes be chillin’
> white thinkers should only be examined “from a critical standpoint” or in a “colonial context”.
Where do they get this idea? (rhetorical question) Of course they may study other philosophies, but will they apply the same “critical theory” to those? I doubt it.
Will the Science Department follow suit and ignore all discoveries made by white people?
If so, that would pretty much leave them with Chinese science. That might work, as the medieval Chinese were often quite clever. The Great Wall, fireworks, and all that.
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya ‘bout the turning of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, with half a pint of shandy was
particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, “I drink therefore I am.”
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed.
The leftist tactic is to belittle, scorn and attack whoever offends their sensibilities or resists their agenda. And then when they react and stand up to this bullying, call them racists or some other pejorative. In this particular case, whites are perceived as having too much influence so the Left initiates a campaign to provoke, then label and demonize. The Left has been doing this for a long time. Its time we put an end to this little game.
Are there ANY African philosophers, even fourth-rate ones?
Even the most cracked of “post-racist” Millennials will eventually be forced to admit that savages are savages!!!! PHOOEY to them!!
And that whole math and physics junk is like so hard.
We should just like invent things to do that stuff for us.
I used to worry as an aging software engineer that I would be obsolete. But they always call me to clean up the messes.
Judging from that picture, I think those students should go back to their native cultures and make it big there. It just has to be much easier, and why are they in England in order to advance themselves if it is so inferior? It was those white philosophers who built the culture that enticed them to leave their own.
why not craft a full major on Great Philosophers of Africa?
Or even graduate degrees?
“I have a Ph.D. in African Philosophy.”
I have never read such a racist, sophomoric statement from a supposedly learned institution.
It follows the current Liberal philosophy that other less economically developed nations have a superior moral compass.
True, there is much that can be learnd from Asian and African philosophy, but to exclude European philosophers unless from a "critical " or "colonial" context is absurd !
Such bias is emotionally driven, and in no way an intellectual discussion; if you want to study Asian or African philosophy,
go to that country of origin and experience it first hand, and see if that philosophy is actually applied,
or is it just strictly and intellectual and academic exercise.
Yes, that conversation sometimes detours into questions in which I have no interest, and sometimes in which I see no point (often due to my own blind spots). Back in the day, however, my own introduction started with Plato's Republic. "What is justice" is kinda, sorta, an eternally relevant question. The mainstream of western political philosophy flows from there.
I can only presume that these students think Plato is irrelevant because they have an a priori answer and aren't interested in probing questions. My guess is that they have no philosophy higher than a will to power and a gimmedat "commitment" to praxis. Real philosophy has traditionally included reflection on what it means to live a good life, and how to do it. These students would probably never dream of asking themselves that question; they simply resent people who are happier or more successful than they are.
The great achievement of classical philosophy was to establish the principle (not always honored) that truth has an independent claim on our actions. "Truth" is clearly not something in which these kids place any value.
Right. You wouldn’t want to understand the foundations upon which your society and government are built.
Not understanding these foundations is akin to playing a game of monopoly without the rules.
You know the idea of conscripting these maroons to work repairing and upgrading failing infrastructure might just appeal to the voters of Britain. I say they start with the rails first.