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Top UK university to swap portraits of bearded white scholars with wall of diversity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ^ | 07/20/2017 | Luke Mintz and Harry Yorke

Posted on 07/20/2017 7:54:54 PM PDT by massmike

King’s College London is to swap portraits of some of its founding fathers with a "wall of diversity" amid pressure from students, a dean says.

The proposals were unveiled by Professor Patrick Leman, the Institute’s dean of education, who said that the faculty should not just be filled with “busts of 1920s bearded men” but rather more modern, diverse scholars so that the Institute feels less “alienating”.

It comes two years after King’s sparked controversy for removing a photograph of Lord Carey, the former of Archbishop of Canterbury, in response to his opposition to gay marriage.

Facing widespread criticism at the time, the university defended its review of a “window display policy” on the grounds that some images had been unrepresentative of the "diversity of our university community".

Professor Leman, who describes himself as “tribal Labour” in blogs, added that portraits lining the main entrance are “almost entirely white middle-aged men” and will be replaced with a “wall of diversity”.

Meanwhile, teaching materials, such as diagrams of the human anatomy, will be changed to feature a “range of ethnic groups”, rather than just the “standard white male”.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: diversity
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Professor Patrick Leman

1 posted on 07/20/2017 7:54:54 PM PDT by massmike
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Gaydar alert


2 posted on 07/20/2017 7:59:29 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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This is sheer INSANITY...akin to the Department of Silly Walk!

Re the anatomy charts...so blacks don't have the same organs and bones and whites do and Asians have different organs, bones, and nervous systems than either of the those other two groups?

3 posted on 07/20/2017 7:59:35 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: massmike
Who needs Shakespeare when you can have people like this guy?


4 posted on 07/20/2017 8:02:33 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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WHY should immigrants integrate into a culture COMMITTING SUICIDE...? It’d be an act of illogic.

They can’t love us any more than we love our own past.

And from appearances we don’t love that, so naturally they get here and LOATHE us.

Malmo, Paris and London are owing to IDIOCY just like this.


5 posted on 07/20/2017 8:07:25 PM PDT by gaijin
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6 posted on 07/20/2017 8:15:42 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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UK has multiple possibilities. Unless it’s either imperialistic or basketball season.


7 posted on 07/20/2017 8:24:38 PM PDT by t4texas (Remember the Alamo!)
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To: massmike

They need a picture of Maya Angelou.


8 posted on 07/20/2017 8:26:47 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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The history of the contributions of bearded white men is being hidden.


9 posted on 07/20/2017 8:27:30 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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“They need a picture of Maya Angelou.”

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Oh my God,I never understood what she was trying to say when she read one of her poems.

Overrated to the max.

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10 posted on 07/20/2017 8:29:01 PM PDT by Mears
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To: ClearCase_guy

Is he part of the Congressional Black Caucus?


11 posted on 07/20/2017 8:35:48 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

#6. I recognize Pelosi on the Left, Maxine Waters in the Middle, but who’s on the Right, Helen Thomas?


12 posted on 07/20/2017 8:50:40 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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#1. They should rename the school, Kings College, in honor of him, to “Queens College”. It’s more fitting


13 posted on 07/20/2017 8:52:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: massmike

More European suicide.


14 posted on 07/20/2017 8:53:47 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

You could be right. Although there is a strong resemblance to Kamala Harris.


15 posted on 07/20/2017 8:54:56 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

He looks very gay; happy, that is...


16 posted on 07/20/2017 8:58:17 PM PDT by GnuThere
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Overrated to the max.

Yea, but she's a black female. That means something.

17 posted on 07/20/2017 9:01:28 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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The proposals were unveiled by Professor Patrick Leman, the Institute’s dean of education, who said that the faculty should not just be filled with “busts of 1920s bearded men” but rather more modern, diverse scholars so that the Institute feels less “alienating”.

Anyone who feels it important to not only notice, but make a big issue of someone's race is a racist.

If someone says that he feels "alienated" by the amount of melanin in someone else's skin, he is a racist.

Regards,

18 posted on 07/20/2017 9:20:07 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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After removing the pictures, it will be wholesale cultural appropriation.

Like Bammy said, “You didn’t build (invent) that.”

Look for revisionist history that states Aristotle, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Mozart, Brahms, and other notables all had dalliances with their slaves.

Sometimes I swear I am living in an alternate reality...


19 posted on 07/20/2017 10:14:34 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (In Safe Space, no one can hear you weep....No one cares either.)
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I think it is racist to say white faces are alienating.


20 posted on 07/20/2017 11:36:01 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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