Stanford Students Claim Western Civ Classes Would Harm Diversity
How did these people get into college? That’s not even a joke, I really want to know.
PJ Media reports.
Stanford Students: Offering Western Civilization Classes Destroys Diversity
“Hey, hey, ho, ho, the mere option of studying Western culture’s got to go.”
Those aren’t the words but the spirit of what a group of Stanford students is saying to classmates who are “elitist” and “racist” enough to want to study Western history.
In February the editors of the Stanford Review, an independent campus publication, published a manifesto embracing Western values and announcing a petition to put Western civilization back into the core curriculum. Stanford abolished that course in 1988, a year after Jesse Jackson marched students around campus chanting against the topic. Currently Stanford offers the class to a tiny fraction of its 7,000 students. The only Western civilization survey course is carefully locked away inside the “Structured Liberal Education” (SLE) program, where a cohort of 90 students opt to study the liberal arts.
Those who signed the pro-Western civilization petition met a barrage of unflattering (sometimes unprintable) epithets and warnings that signatories would be blacklisted and shunned from future campus leadership. One suspected—suspected, mind you—supporter was stripped from helming a support network for low-income students. Evidently his co-leaders concluded there are no good reasons a low-income student might want to study the history of the society whose economic ladder he is trying to climb.
Stanford Students: Offering Western Civilization Classes Destroys Diversity (PJ Media)
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I used to think that Stanford students were very smart. Now I know that they are simply the richest and coddled. Send your kids to a little junior college. They will get a better education than at Stanford.
“Diversity” has never been properly defined and its scope keeps changing. From all of the recent student incidents, however, “diversity” seems to mean “a rejection of white, European, males and their culture, in all its forms.” If this is indeed the proper definition, then, of course, Western Civ would harm “diversity.”