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Home Front: Culture Wars
University Of Oregon Stops Teaching World History/Western Civilization Because Of "White Supremacy"
2019-04-03
[Red State] Brett Rushforth, the chair of the University of Oregon history department announced on Twitter that the department decided to stop teaching about Western civilization because they felt it encouraged "white supremacy".

Rushforth writes a long thread outlining his decision because apparently history is entire subjective, and also, Western civilization is racist, of course. The department has also apparently decided to not accept AP credit from high schools on the subject.

In his thread Rushforth claims "The obvious problems‐what is "western" and who gets to count as being "civilized"‐weren’t the only reasons to make the change. It was also about how white supremacists have embraced the notion of western civilization to make racist claims about non-European people."
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  The state should cut all their funding, since the university has decided to abandon their mission.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-04-03 21:49  

#14  Then why tech History™ at all? Disband the College and fire all of the professors.
Posted by: magpie   2019-04-03 20:24  

#13  When will they stop accepting white supremes taxpayer's money.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-04-03 17:13  

#12  How will this self-hatred end?
Posted by: borgboy   2019-04-03 16:22  

#11  Western civilization is so horrific we are fighting about how to keep folks out.
Other civilizations don't seem to have this problem.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-04-03 15:24  

#10  If the supremacy thing weren't so obvious, there'd be no need to censor the subject.
That said, "good" is defined in western terms. indoor plumbing, democracy and justice (if only pretend), industrialization, ending famine, coat and tie for formal affairs, medicine, such like.
If there were other ways to define "good", I'm sure the courses would reflect those.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2019-04-03 14:06  

#9  Pistol Pete Maravich could have been a Harlem Globetrotter if he didn't have white privilege.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-04-03 13:11  

#8  Don't forget to can math as a tool of the patriarchy. that will make room for the circle folks song jamboree class that will prepare these folks for life as perm protesters on welfare.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-04-03 12:31  

#7  Mrs. JohnQC said "If he's that stupid, he shouldn't be teaching anything."
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-04-03 11:45  

#6  Inter-sectional biology
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-04-03 11:39  

#5  So, what will they teach?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-04-03 11:24  

#4  More re-writing or ignoring the past so they can lay their Maxist indoctrination on the students.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-04-03 11:11  

#3  If I had to take a guess, I'd say that Western Civ was by and large already heavily deemphasized by this point in Eugene, and now they have a convenient excuse to finally kill it dead. In a broader context, it sure as hell has been déclassé for decades in most other parts of academe & high school curriculums.
Posted by: Raj   2019-04-03 10:32  

#2  Sounds like the University needs to stop being a parasite on Western Civilization as well.

BTW, idiot, it seems the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, et al have been embarrassing a lot of the fruits of Western Civilization. So much so, that progressives institutions have been racially segregating them for their success.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-04-03 10:24  

#1  If I wanted to study "Eastern Civilization", I'd sign up for that course. Will you teach "Western Civilization" in Pakistan and China?
Posted by: Bobby   2019-04-03 10:17  

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