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Home Front: Culture Wars
Degenerate U
2006-08-03
By Walter Williams
Colleges and universities will start their fall semester soon. You might be interested in what parents' and taxpayers' money is going for at far too many "institutions of higher learning."

At Occidental College in Los Angeles, a mandatory course for some freshmen is "The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie." It's a course where Professor Elizabeth J. Chin explores ways in "which scientific racism has been put to use in the making of Barbie [and] to an interpretation of the film 'The Matrix' as a Marxist critique of capitalism." Johns Hopkins University students can enroll in a course called "Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll in Ancient Egypt." Part of the course includes slide shows of women in ancient Egypt "vomiting on each other," "having intercourse" and "fixing their hair."

Harvard University students can take "Marxist Concepts of Racism," which examines "the role of capitalist development and expansion in creating racial inequality." You can bet there's no mention of the genocide in Africa and former communist regimes like Yugoslavia. Young America's Foundation and Accuracy in Academia publish lists of courses like these, at many other colleges, that are nothing less than student indoctrination through academic dishonesty.
Posted by:mcsegeek1

#4  Chalk this up to spineless lawmakers and administration. The are sooo scared about passing any kind of judgment they accept these whacky class antics without a whimper. If any of them still had their cajones these “professors” and their sick recipe for academia would be flushed down the toilet.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-08-03 18:31  

#3  That comment was, like, soooo
ethnocentric, tu...
Posted by: Raj   2006-08-03 14:15  

#2  "The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie."

I'm trying to get a job teaching a class next semester. It'll be called "Find The Black Man In The Elvis Movie".
Posted by: tu3031   2006-08-03 13:57  

#1  As I once heard, if you want to keep kids safe from unwholesome material, put it in their textbooks. They'll never see it.
Posted by: Dreadnought   2006-08-03 12:02  

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