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Students Told to Disavow ‘American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality’
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Posted on 11/28/2012 6:10:46 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Students Told to Disavow ‘American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality’

Posted By Ryan Lovelace - Butler University On November 27, 2012 @ 12:02 am In Fix Exclusives,Image Slider | 95 Comments

A political science professor at Butler University asks students to disregard their “American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status” when writing and speaking in the classroom – a practice the school’s arts and sciences dean defended as a way to negate students’ inherent prejudices.

The syllabus of the course at Butler, a small Midwestern liberal arts institution in Indianapolis, spells out that students should use “inclusive language” because it’s “a fundamental issue of social justice.”

“Language that is truly inclusive affirms sexuality, racial and ethnic backgrounds, stages of maturity, and degrees of limiting conditions,” the syllabus states, referencing a definition created by the United Church of Christ.

The syllabus of the class, called Political Science 201: Research and Analysis, goes on to ask students “to write and speak in a way that does not assume American-ness, maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality, middle-class status, etc. to be the norm.” It is taught by a black, female professor.

In an interview with The College Fix, Jay Howard, dean of Butler’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, denied this practice essentially presumes every student who walks through the door is a racist or misogynist.

He said students must be told not to assume such prejudices because such assumptions are ingrained into the culture and remain there until questioned. With that, a liberal arts education questions these assumptions, and such questions can make for uncomfortable situations, he said.

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To: Sub-Driver

College? Hell save your money... They’ll only end up working at Mc Donalds in this Obama-economy anyway...


21 posted on 11/28/2012 6:45:53 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: Sub-Driver
“Our language doesn’t make it easy to write in ways that are inclusive,” Howard said. “We don’t have a generic singular, I mean we have he and she. There is no pronoun that is gender-neutral there.”

How about we just start referring to everyone as “it.”

22 posted on 11/28/2012 6:46:43 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: jboot

Find one of the good ones. May I suggest Colorado Christian University in Denver? Fabulous Christian education and home of the Western Conservative Union. Just had Stossel do a full day seminar for the business students. They have nationally known conservatives speak to and put on seminars for the students all the time. I’m jealous of my son - almost makes me want to go back to school....


23 posted on 11/28/2012 6:47:56 AM PST by Mom MD (T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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To: I want the USA back
And an American HS diploma is about as useful as Kleenex-less so, really, because it is much rougher.

Our education system is a disaster. If it were making cars instead of educated adults the vehicles would be fantastically expensive but only a minority of them could attain normal driving speeds. Many basic features would not be offerred while dubious and deleterious features would come standard. Many would be dangerous to operate. A sizeable fraction would spontaneously self-destruct. No one in their right mind would buy one.

Yet we keep sending our kids to known dysfunction-breeding factories, because it is "our civic duty." Or something.

24 posted on 11/28/2012 6:48:15 AM PST by jboot (This isn't your father's America. Stay safe and keep your powder dry.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Btw, BRAVO Ryan Lovelace!


25 posted on 11/28/2012 6:49:45 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: Sub-Driver
The best description of college I've heard is

"It's where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without going through the minds of either"

This nonsense is the end result of race / gender affirmative action.

The definition they gave for inclusive said it affirms the language of race, sexuality, etc., not exclude. I'm not sure what affirm means in Ebonics, but in English, it has a positive connotation.

"this practice essentially presumes every student who walks through the door is a racist or misogynist."

Not true - it assumes that only whites are racist and women are the only victims of bias.

By the way, what on earth is "manness"? Is that "manhood", manliness, manstraficationness...? Sheesh, and parents pay for this asinine ignorant brainwashing.

26 posted on 11/28/2012 6:54:12 AM PST by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: Mom MD
Sounds like a great school, today. Tomorrow is another matter. The opposition actively infiltrates and subverts any institution that they see as a threat. I've seen this happen to several schools that I attended or planned to attend.

Trust but verify. Repeatedly verify. And always have an action plan to get your son out. Bad schools ruin people for life. You cannot be too paranoid on his behalf.

27 posted on 11/28/2012 6:55:11 AM PST by jboot (This isn't your father's America. Stay safe and keep your powder dry.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Nothing new here.

Colleges have been at the business of ‘invalidating’ everything you are for donkeys’ years... heck, it's what they do in place of actually educating you!

It's why American college kids are as dumb as dirt about everything except social issues... and they don't get THAT right either!

28 posted on 11/28/2012 6:55:52 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: KansasGirl

Here is something that is generic singular that applies to this air head prof: GFY.


29 posted on 11/28/2012 6:58:28 AM PST by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why not just call students and classmates ‘fellow travelers’????


30 posted on 11/28/2012 6:59:35 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda
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To: Sub-Driver
My stomach muscles hurt really bad from all the puking I've been doing lately. I won't take it for much longer.

FMCDH(BITS)

31 posted on 11/28/2012 7:02:44 AM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: Sub-Driver

How about we change “He said students must be told not to assume such prejudices because such assumptions are ingrained into the culture and remain there until questioned.”

He said LIBERAL ARTS PROFESSORS must be told not to assume such prejudices because such assumptions are ingrained into the culture and remain there until questioned.


32 posted on 11/28/2012 7:02:52 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: jboot
I'm an Alabama alumnus and even at the University the political correctness has long been pervasive. I recommended that the Tuscaloosa campus change its name to the University of Alabama at Calcutta (its not there but that name would better reflect its multicultural mission).
33 posted on 11/28/2012 7:04:43 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Inherent biases. Right. So lets replace those “inherent biases” with unnatural ones. They don’t see the irony in this? Idiots.


34 posted on 11/28/2012 7:18:18 AM PST by youngidiot (God help us.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Being a white male particularly if you have a conservative point of view or are Christian and especially Catholic makes you a focus for derision. Our mixed race metrosexual President is the new role model for the modern male.


35 posted on 11/28/2012 7:28:34 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Sub-Driver

Students should give profuse thanks to America’s straight white men. Directly or indirectly white men pay for about 80% of everything, including the tuition bills of minority students.


36 posted on 11/28/2012 7:33:24 AM PST by Reeses
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To: Sub-Driver

PURE EVIL!


37 posted on 11/28/2012 7:41:36 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadows of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: Sub-Driver

In short, students are to support every evil and disgusting practice promoted by Marxist pigs. It is called undermining what is right and good.


38 posted on 11/28/2012 7:45:41 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Sub-Driver

With a little luck this will provoke some rebellion from his students and accomplish the exact opposite...


39 posted on 11/28/2012 7:49:17 AM PST by Little Ray (I have VOTED AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: melsec
White, Hetero, American Male(WHAM)

Female, Lesbian, African Black (FLAB)

Your choice...

40 posted on 11/28/2012 7:59:18 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (The trouble with the "masses" is that they never achieve the "m")
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