The campus left has been arguing for years that the United States Constitution, the Western canon, and other “dead white male” materials are shot through with misogyny and white supremacy, and are largely irrelevant to the experiences of oppressed minorities.
The “years” in question were fifteen minutes back in the 1980s. Since then, nobody on any campus has argued such a thing except for a hopeless adjunct who is never getting employed in a real job and has no idea why. Jeez, wake up already. Today’s college students weren’t even born back when this short-lived fad existed but the idiot still can’t get over it.
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I am not sure where “irrelevant to experiences of minorities” come in since they were and are subject to the Constitution too. But the way slavery was written into the constitution and women out are standard topics in history courses, law, etc. — in part since some legal decisions in 19th century can still apply against the various forms of slavery today. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/thirteenthamendment.html
And I still have people — professors at good schools — telling me I should teach narcocorridos instead of Borges, etc.
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Wackadoodles like this though
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