“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.
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.