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originally posted by: Logarock
a reply to: Jamie1
It sure is racist and not by accident. Sounds like a 1936 German university class......"the problem with Jews".
The university explained Bebout’s class “uses literature and rhetoric to look at how stories shape people’s understanding and experiences of race” while encouraging “students to examine how people talk about – or avoid talking about – race in the contemporary United States.”
Students can expect to “draw on history, literature, speeches and cultural changes – from scholarly texts to humor,” the statement continued, noting the class “is designed to empower students to confront the difficult and often thorny issues that surround us today and reach thoughtful conclusions rather than display gut reactions.”
originally posted by: Rabb420
But you gotta remember just last week me and my whole family were out whipping all the slaves while laughing at the disgusting amount of money i made last fiscal year from selling a couple of slaves at a high price/end sarcasm.
Im getting sick of seeing this type of news the double standard is strong. I mean come on "the problem with whiteness"???? ive said it before i do not/will not/never will feel guilty for something that happened so long ago that not even my lineage can be associated with it.i agree its probably just a ploy to get more people to sign up to their failing institution. Im gettin real sick of hearing all this white privilege BS also. if im so privileged why have i been unemployed for so long? why am i on welfare? Never once in my life have i ever benefited from being white, quite the opposite really there have been a few times im about 96% sure that my whiteness has worked against me. Then here come the group that will tell me "there now you know how it feels" blah blah blah.All this racism everywhere is giving me a migraine constantly. i dont know but this course sounds pretty stupid and i wouldn't mind seeing the syllabus for the course so i can have a really good laugh.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
Unless some of you can prove some sort of Supremacist reasoning behind this then the Nazi comparison is hyperbolic nonsense.
People need to stop equating things with Nazism that are nothing to do with supremacy and genocide...
It's a god damn insult to all the people the Nazis massacred.
As always, people find things of no consequence to be outraged about, just so they can bring up race in a conversation.
originally posted by: SonOfThor
The seed of hatred and indemnification of a whole race of people at institutions of academia is one of the first steps on the road to getting a society against a specific group of people. So actually, as someone who has a Masters degree in German Literature and has studied in detail how the Nazis rose to power, the comparison is quite accurate.
You're ignorance of the fact that genocide is made possible by an evolution and legitimization of hate rhetoric is what is disgraceful. Ignorance and silence in the face of such BS is what makes something like Nazism possible.
"This course uses literature and rhetoric to look at how stories shape people's understandings and experiences of race. It encourages students to examine how people talk about – or avoid talking about – race in the contemporary United States. This is an interdisciplinary course, so students will draw on history, literature, speeches and cultural changes – from scholarly texts to humor. The class is designed to empower students to confront the difficult and often thorny issues that surround us today and reach thoughtful conclusions rather than display gut reactions. A university is an academic environment where we discuss and debate a wide array of viewpoints."
"This course uses literature and rhetoric to look at how stories shape people's understandings and experiences of race. It encourages students to examine how people talk about – or avoid talking about – race in the contemporary United States. This is an interdisciplinary course, so students will draw on history, literature, speeches and cultural changes – from scholarly texts to humor. The class is designed to empower students to confront the difficult and often thorny issues that surround us today and reach thoughtful conclusions rather than display gut reactions. A university is an academic environment where we discuss and debate a wide array of viewpoints."