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California requires ethnic studies for university system
AP News ^ | August 18, 2020

Posted on 08/18/2020 6:13:52 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Students at California State University, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, will need to take an ethic studies course to graduate under a bill signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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The measure will overrule reforms approved by the university’s Board of Trustees last month that required students to take ethnic studies and social justice courses on a wider array of marginalized communities, including Jewish, Muslim and LGBTQ groups.


I really want to take an Islamic woman studies course dealing with the female experience in Muslim societies.

1 posted on 08/18/2020 6:13:52 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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At this point, isn’t it redundant? Everything is ethnic studies.


2 posted on 08/18/2020 6:15:47 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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I had to take some multicultural requirement classes, so I took “The Glory of Greece” and “The History of Rome”.

We didn’t have to take some Black, Jew, or Homo class though.


3 posted on 08/18/2020 6:23:34 AM PDT by EEGator
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UCSD (San Diego) had a similar requirement when my son was attending. He signed up for a class with a black, lesbian, uber-feminist instructor. After berating and attacking all the whites in the class (particularly white males), she gave only the whites their first assignment. They had to write a paper on how their parents instilled racist values in their lives and how this was really a measure of how their parents hated the student.

My son immediately dropped the class and fulfilled the requirement by taking a Jazz Appreciation class. It was the only class he dropped in his university time. His response to the whole scene was, “Seriously?”


4 posted on 08/18/2020 6:26:46 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: artichokegrower

In the 70’s a course on propaganda analysis was required at Iowa State University to graduate.

We supposedly learned how the older generation was lying to us. I leaned how everyone was lying to me.


5 posted on 08/18/2020 6:26:49 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: artichokegrower

Wouldn’t it be more educational if they required the Students to actually LIVE in these ethnic countries??

Venezuela 30 days
Saudi Arabia 30 days
Cuba 30 days

they will learn a hell of a lot more than those books say


6 posted on 08/18/2020 6:28:38 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: artichokegrower

Because, apparently, CA students are not getting enough radical propaganda already.


7 posted on 08/18/2020 6:32:55 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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The change comes amid the national reckoning over racism

How many times has this trite "national reckoning over racism" line been parroted in the press? The mainstream media sure likes to push a talking point/narrative.

8 posted on 08/18/2020 6:32:58 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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The title is wrong. The truth is contained in the body of the article. They don't need "ethnic" studies.

........will need to take an ethic studies course....

They need courses on ethics. All kommiefornia politicians must be forced to study ethics. Actually, the entire west coast should be force fed a steady diet of ethics. And kolorado, new york, Illinois.......

9 posted on 08/18/2020 6:34:47 AM PDT by LouAvul ("..it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps..")
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To acknowledge your white supremacy and beg for forgiveness?


10 posted on 08/18/2020 6:35:13 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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The AP site has “ethnic” in the headline, “ethic” in the lead of the story.

Proofreaders, anyone? Fact-checkers?


11 posted on 08/18/2020 6:37:05 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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By definition, a group that can force you to take a course in marginalized communities isn’t marginalized. You are the one who is marginalized.


12 posted on 08/18/2020 6:40:49 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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In 1974 I was working on my BS biology minor chemistry degree. Needed a humanities course. All day was booked with lab classes. A woman’s studies course was offered at night. I was the only guy in the room. Felt like the high school girl taking wood shop


13 posted on 08/18/2020 6:47:02 AM PDT by artichokegrower (I)
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My son at Cal State also had a diversity requirement class for his BS degree. He took ethnic foods. I think Jazz Appreciation would be a good option too.

My worry is this must be an ADDITIONAL woke class that will likely be unavoidably woke and anti-white. Jazz and ethnic foods are not necessarily anti-white. I’d bet the new ones are.

I have two teens still in HS—I think Cal State may not be part of their futures. So very sad.


14 posted on 08/18/2020 6:54:18 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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I love ethnic foods. My grandmother was the best Okie cook ever.


15 posted on 08/18/2020 6:56:42 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Life is anecdotal)
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To: artichokegrower

Democrat Ethics? Bah hah hah hah...!!!


16 posted on 08/18/2020 6:59:53 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Under that plan, students could have met their graduation requirement by taking courses on social justice that explored issues such as the criminal justice system and public health disparities.

Liberals are constantly braying about "Social Justice," but just what the hell is it?

17 posted on 08/18/2020 7:04:51 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Trust me when I say it - it won’t matter. College has become a total joke and the only ones that haven’t caught on are the idiots still paying absurd sums to get the “title.” Nothing is learned, and nothing is retained. “I pretend to teach, they pretend to learn.” Education 2020.


18 posted on 08/18/2020 7:08:00 AM PDT by Bull Man
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In his second term, Trump should sign a bill requiring all schools, colleges and universities getting federal aid money of any sort to require a “Western Civilization and Its Contributions” Course, co-designed by Hillsdale College and Prager University.


19 posted on 08/18/2020 7:13:26 AM PDT by nwrep
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OK: English History 101; French History 101; Italian History 101; German History 101; and Spanish History 101.


20 posted on 08/18/2020 7:24:57 AM PDT by Petrosius
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