| Submit your comments on this article |
| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Notre Dame Students Call for the Removal of White Authors from Curriculum |
| 2019-11-26 |
| [BREITBART] Student activists at the University of Notre Dame are calling for the removal of white authors from the university curriculum to "decolonize" the university. According to the students, "diversifying the canon helps eliminate the violence of only privileging white scholarship." According to a report by The College Fix, a student activist group at the University of Notre Dame called "End Hate at ND" is demanding that the university drastically rewrite course curriculum because they believe it currently features too many works by white authors. The student activist group published a list of demands to their Instagram page. The students demanded that the curriculum be revised so that the works of minority authors account for at least 50 percent of required readings. Cultural competence is key in building empathy for marginalized folks. No course or program of study should have a view limited to white, western, and/or male voices. We demand that people who are of Color, Indigenous, Black, queer, or not male are represented in the authorship of at least half course and major required readings. Diversifying the canon helps eliminate the violence of only privileging white scholarship. Everyone should see themselves represented in coursework. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #31 #15 hit the nail on the head |
| Posted by: chris 2019-11-26 22:37 |
| #30 How do we know they're not paid Soros drones? You can usually tell by asking them what they are protesting about. A Soros paid protestor will do anything but answer the question. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-11-26 20:13 |
| #29 What if everyone doesn't deserve representation in 'the canon' at Notre Dame? Unlike student activists, djembe drummers have never hurt anyone Dron. And are actually entertaining. Why drag them into this? |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2019-11-26 14:50 |
| #28 Dron, We have a lot of data now to indicate that ped0phi!ia is indeed extraordinarily prevalent in the Church-- orders of magnitude more so than in the general population. The minimal estimates are 5-6% and probably about 10% based on the Church's own data and exhaustive analyses of same that have been done in the US and Australia. in Australia 7% of priests have been accused of ped0phi!ia; the government estimated that not fewer than 4% are guilty of same. In the US there were 4,352 documented cases between 1960 and 2002 per the John Jay Report. Today iirc there are about 40,000 active priests today, so we can estimate that perhaps 2x that number or ~80,000 priests were active in the period studied by the John Jay Report. That would yield an estimate of close to 6% incidence of ped0phi!e priests. And then we have very detailed, diocese-by-diocese data from data from the state of Pennsylvania. In 7 of 8 Pennsylvania dioceses (excluding the Archdiocese of Philadelphia with perhaps 1/4 of the state's total # of priests), the Church admitted to 311 individual cases of ped0phi!ia by priests over a 70-year period. There are about 1,400 active priests currently in those 7 dioceses,so perhaps 2.5x or 3,500 priests total were active over this 70 year period in those dioceses. That would yield a rare of about 9% of PA priests were, by the Church's admission, ped0phi!es. The actual number is of course higher but that 9% figure from PA suggests a good floor estimate. Call them whatever polite term you wish: this organization is an international crime syndicate. It's no wonder that the left-leaning clergy at Notre Dame and elsewhere drape themselves in all manner of virtue-signaling rhetoric, "liberation theology" and other left-wing political nonsense. It's a massive redirect from their gay mafia organization and its horrific crimes committed on a worldwide scale. /rant |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-26 13:43 |
| #27 Who says these 'protestor's are, in fact, students? How do we know they're not paid Soros drones? |
| Posted by: Bobby on the road 2019-11-26 13:31 |
| #26 Isn't that good though ? That the vatican or its cousins employ and sequester away young gays and make them perform a kind of community service for life. They are kept out of politics and woke activism and let's say 2 in 10 maybe end up molesting children. Or is that more ? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-11-26 12:42 |
| #25 My apologies. What term should one use to describe this dimension (up to 80% by some well-informed estimates) of the Church? No snark. Just seeking to understand where Rantburg draws the lines. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-26 12:27 |
| #24 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-11-26 12:13 |
| #23 Buttafuoco, Joey Buttafuoco. |
| Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 2019-11-26 12:09 |
| #22 Higher education is wasted on these people. They should have dropped out in the 5th grade to obtain a "world class" education. |
| Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 2019-11-26 12:04 |
| #21 Au Lex....? "The Buttfug connection" This really is a family show. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-11-26 11:57 |
| #20 Ah, #19 true. Makes sense: Buttfug connection to the lefty buttfug-friars. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-26 11:36 |
| #19 ND is outside South Bend. Home of Mayor Pete Buttplug |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-11-26 11:28 |
| #18 Profesor's high salaries are derived from income from students loans these low iq chillins will never be able to payoff but this will get them a few more class credits. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2019-11-26 10:56 |
| #17 Universities charge the students money because they are going to prepare them for the future and caving into everything and giving them a substandard education isn't preparing them for anything. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-11-26 10:08 |
| #16 ^^^^^^^^!!! |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-11-26 09:36 |
| #15 Ok. And we will remove all white funding for your school then as well. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-11-26 09:06 |
| #14 What the school should do, is simply tell them "We don't do demands. Next demand earns expulsion." |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-11-26 09:03 |
| #13 When you have CNN, MSNBC, and the other fake news outlets, who really needs books and libraries ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-11-26 07:11 |
| #12 ..well, that certainly fits with the Pope's version of the religion. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-26 07:09 |
| #11 And yet they're every one a devotee of Marx. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-11-26 06:37 |
| #10 Lets start with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-26 04:54 |
| #9 What if everyone doesn't deserve representation in 'the canon' at Notre Dame ? I mean... why ?  |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-11-26 02:33 |
| #8 Next semester they can paint rocks with poo. Hopefully they'll put that on their resume. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-11-26 02:32 |
| #7 Everyone should see themselves represented in coursework. Animal farm |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-26 01:52 |
| #6 It does smell fishy. I mean, at Notre Dame? This can only be a joke, right? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-26 01:47 |
| #5 I'll bet they're being paid directly in cash at this point. Who can be this suicidal for nothing but woke points ? |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-11-26 01:46 |
| #4 #2 exactly. Someone needs to tell these morons to go back and learn a bit about the history of the faith and the saints. Augustine was African. Paul was from Asia Minor, as was the dude whats-his-name from Galilee. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-26 01:44 |
| #3 Up = Down Night = Day Overgrown children's hurt feelings/rage = evidence of "violence" Actual violence against innocent citizens = "speech," "protest" |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-26 01:42 |
| #2 I'm pretty sure that the ancient Greek and Roman authors of many classic works would be baffled by the idea that they were "white." White people were the illiterate barbarians to the north who painted themselves blue. So the whole Dead White Men meme doesn't work when it comes to authors like Cicero or Aristophanes. Dead? Absolutely. Male? Certainly. White? Not so much. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2019-11-26 01:42 |
| #1 I'm starting to wonder what kind of education those "students" received prior to college. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-11-26 01:05 |