Posted on 02/20/2023 12:36:32 PM PST by CFW
Three students praised the University of Austin's inaugural summer program for fostering civil discourse and open dialogue around subjects that might be considered taboo through its dedication to free speech.
The University of Austin — established as a free speech alternative to other colleges — over the summer offered its "forbidden courses," which were intended to allow students to "inquire openly into vexing questions" about controversial subjects "with honesty and without fear of shame," the university's website states. The classes covered topics ranging from feminism to the history of the Black male experience since the nation's founding.
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“The classes covered topics ranging from feminism to the history of the Black male experience...”
Those are the complete opposite of “forbidden courses”. They should call them “Courses Completely in Line with Current GroupThink Orthodoxy” instead.
I’m hopeful you have that backwards, actually.
Sounds like it from the names.
Taboo subjects.
Kkk and the democrat party.
Democrats are the real racists.
Men can’t be women.
Get a job and move out of your mom’s house.
Let me know when they offer courses covering why African Americans commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes or why democrat political solutions never work and cost too much.
“Those are the complete opposite of “forbidden courses”. They should call them “Courses Completely in Line with Current GroupThink Orthodoxy” instead.”
Not if they allow different views discussed. If the “history of black male experience” discusses why so many black boys are fatherless, and how the government has worked to replace the authority figure in homes, it could actually be very informative to students who have never been presented with the “other side” of the narrative.
Wow, an environment where freedom of speech and religion are embraced, and it turns out that a marketplace of ideas yields better results than complete intolerance of dissenting views. If only someone had thought of this 250 years ago!
Just as with the Hollywood simpletons who believe they’re being courageous as they spout the standard leftist party line
The forbidden fruit is always sweeter. College students like the thrill of learning topics banned by “the man”. Doesn’t matter if they’re complete hogwash; the best way to get a young person to read something is to forbid him/her from doing so.
"Debated"
Yeah, sure.
Bible studies?
Or a course taught by Dr. Thomas Sowell— way back when black kids in the District of Columbia had two parents who valued learning and actually scored better than white students on standardized test while attending overcrowded classrooms in segregated schools with hand-me-down text books and school supplies.
I’m sure they will be discussing these topics in “Forbidden Courses”:
* Why do young urban blacks murder each other at an astonishing rate?
* Why do so many ghetto black people have no impulse control?
* Why do so many poor women have babies from four or five different men who never stay around?
* How will we light, heat and cool our houses after we ban all fossil and nuclear power plants?
* Name one thing that does climate does NOT cause.
quote “were intended to allow students to “inquire openly into vexing questions” about controversial subjects “with honesty and without fear of shame,”
LMAO
I thought for a second they would be studying whether global warming was a hoax, the democrats still elections, racial IQ differences, racial violence propensity differences, and other things like was masking and forced vaccinations really necessary...
but NOPE!
Just another WOKE class digging deeper into the liberal lies pile of crap.
Grievance echo chambers
Forbidden Courses:
* Math
* Proper English Grammar
* Shakespeare and Chaucer
* History of the Western World
Our parish is the campus center for Catholic students where we live. We’re part of the “family community” i.e. not students but alumni. So St. Lawrence always has at least one faculty member as a resident who teaches credit courses which are designed to fulfill the humanities requirements.
“Forbidden”, eh?
Let me guess... Civics?
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