Article

2016-12-16 Home Front: Politix

Penn University English department replaces Shakesphere

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by badanov 2016-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-16 01:30|| 2016-12-16 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 I am pretty sure there's nearby community college that can be hired/contracted to teach English for technical writing and just dump the entire department. Lots of savings to be found there.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2016-12-16 06:57|| 2016-12-16 06:57|| Front Page Top

#3 From the article:

"The portrait has resided over the main staircase of Fisher-Bennett — home to Penn’s English Department — for years. The English Department voted to relocate and replace the portrait a few years ago in order to represent a more diverse range of writers, according to an emailed statement from Esty, who declined to be interviewed."

The article's author then makes the point:

"Not merit. Not worth. Diversity. And diversity means meritless worthlessness. Always remember that. Diverse equals worthless."

Posted by Heriberto Greper9897 2016-12-16 07:58|| 2016-12-16 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 How many copies of Audre Lorde's books have been sold?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-16 12:08|| 2016-12-16 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Check back with me in five years and tell me how many people can quote Lorde or even read her?

Politically correct non sense and literary moral equivalency.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-12-16 12:43|| 2016-12-16 12:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Diversity without choice is a synonym for low quality

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-16 15:45|| 2016-12-16 15:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Why do they even *have* an English department?
English is the language of the white, colonial oppressors. Plus all those words stolen from oppressed languages around the world.

Posted by SteveS 2016-12-16 16:33|| 2016-12-16 16:33|| Front Page Top

23:22 Steve White
22:20 rjschwarz
22:08 newc
20:52 Injun Bucket8891
19:54 Barbara
19:30 trailing wife
18:45 Rob Crawford
18:42 gorb
18:38 Rob Crawford
18:34 gorb
18:31 Neville Bonaparte7852
18:31 gorb
18:09 Eltoroverde
17:39 CrazyFool
17:30 BrerRabbit
16:50 g(r)omgoru
16:47 phil_b
16:43 Bright Pebbles
16:35 Bright Pebbles
16:33 SteveS
16:27 CrazyFool
16:16 SteveS
16:16 Alaska Paul
16:13 Alaska Paul