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Berkeley students outraged course reading includes Plato, Aristotle but nothing from transgenders
Campus Reform ^ | January 22, 2015 | Maggie Lit

Posted on 01/22/2015 12:58:37 PM PST by Zakeet

Two students at the University of California, Berkeley are calling for students to “Occupy the syllabus,” or consider dropping a course if it only includes the works of white men as class material.

Students Rodrigo Kazuo and Margaret “Meg” Perret wrote an op-ed in The Daily Californian, the independent student newspaper, titled “Occupy the syllabus” where they called for a student-wide occupation of all social science and humanities classes after they found their upper-division course on classical social theory lacked the works of women, trans people, and people of color.

“The course syllabus employed a standardized canon of theory that began with Plato and Aristotle, then jumped to modern philosophers: Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Foucault, all of whom are white men,” wrote the students. “The syllabus did not include a single woman or person of color.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aristotle; berkeley; bias; college; familyvalues; foucault; fruitsandnuts; hegel; hobbes; homosexualagenda; liberalagenda; locke; lofan; marx; occupythesyllabus; plato; sexism; ucberkeley; uofcalifornia; weber
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The classroom environment at Berkeley is so hostile to women, people of color, queer folks and other marginalized subjects without my words of wisdom that it is difficult for students to focus on course material!

1 posted on 01/22/2015 12:58:37 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

I hear Socrates swung both ways .....

..... does that count?


2 posted on 01/22/2015 1:01:25 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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To: Zakeet

Well, those Greek guys were pederasts. That ought to count for SOMETHING.


3 posted on 01/22/2015 1:02:19 PM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: Zakeet

Talk about first world problems. And that picture is very disturbing.


4 posted on 01/22/2015 1:02:44 PM PST by Disambiguator (Je suis ein Berliner.)
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To: Zakeet

History is racist, bigoted and homophobic.

Damn all them evil white people for inventing stuff.


5 posted on 01/22/2015 1:03:19 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Yes. Of course. They also have no representation from dogs, cats, birds and fish, not to even mention the ape culture.


6 posted on 01/22/2015 1:03:48 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Zakeet

classical social theory

um.. earth to idiots! Of course CLASSICAL studies is only going to cover the works of white men!


7 posted on 01/22/2015 1:04:54 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Zakeet
The modern college "experience":


8 posted on 01/22/2015 1:05:10 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Zakeet

Due to a clerical error,two students at the University of California, Berkeley who are too stupid to live, let alone matriculate, have been suspended by the provost. Details at 11......


9 posted on 01/22/2015 1:05:34 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Zakeet

How do they know they weren’t transgenders?


10 posted on 01/22/2015 1:06:11 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: LostInBayport

At Berkeley, that has always been the experience for those in non-solid majors.

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11 posted on 01/22/2015 1:07:22 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Zakeet

They are Occupied with Priapus..........


12 posted on 01/22/2015 1:07:53 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Zakeet

It’s a Man in a Dress RUN


13 posted on 01/22/2015 1:08:29 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Zakeet

The most amazing part of this story to me is that Berkeley still has a course that teaches Plato and Aristotle.


14 posted on 01/22/2015 1:08:38 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: AppyPappy

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You’re right, Plato was a queer after all, so he could have been contemplating the knife.

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15 posted on 01/22/2015 1:08:51 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Zakeet

“We at Jerkly. We wannabe stupid.”


16 posted on 01/22/2015 1:09:45 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Zakeet
The course syllabus employed a standardized canon of theory that ...

... elaborated on the works of history's great thinkers instead of some latter-day flash-in-the-pan nobodies who will not be remembered a day after they're dead.

17 posted on 01/22/2015 1:12:26 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Zakeet; max americana
I have lived my life around the teachings of Marx.


18 posted on 01/22/2015 1:14:32 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Zakeet; golux
FYI, and for the offended of Berkeley:
immediately transfer to Yale, which has announced a new course for next term:
Francophone Transgendered Poets of West Africa.
This is an update of the course offered in my day, "Francophone Lesbian Poets of West Africa."

Do you think we are discussing the same poets?

19 posted on 01/22/2015 1:14:42 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Gay Muslim Marxist from Mombasa as POTUS? Sure! What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
The most amazing part of this story to me is that Berkeley still has a course that teaches Plato and Aristotle.

Sadly, that was my thought as well.

Just tried to hire someone from UCLA. Looked good on paper. Did not last the first day. Similar experience regarding a graduate from Berkley a little while ago.

I now simply consider those universities to be potential disqualifiers for new hires...

20 posted on 01/22/2015 1:15:35 PM PST by piytar (If you don't know what taqiyya and the doctrine of abrogation are, you are a fool!)
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