Western Civilization? No Thanks,Stanford Students Say
BY WALTER HUDSON APRIL 12, 2016
To survive and thrive, human beings must think. You might imagine that such a statement goes without saying. But you would be wrong. In fact, the necessity of thought has long been a contested notion in philosophical circles. Societies which embrace thinking , societies which embrace rationality, steadily improve the condition of mankind. Those who reject rationality devolve into darkness, fostering human suffering.
Stanford Students: O!ering Western Civilization Classes Destroys Diversity
The generation making its way through academia today seems intent on the latter course, as evidenced most recently by news out of Stanford University. There, the student government just voted down a motion to require freshmen to learn “the politics, history, philosophy, and culture of the Western world” by a 6 to 1 margin. From the Daily Caller:
In contrast, over 90 percent of students voted in favor of an initiative requiring the school to administer a new campus climate survey designed to find the rate of sexual assault on campus. The school already administered such a survey in 2015, but it outraged activists by finding a sexual assault rate of just 1.9%, which they deemed far too low.
BY WALTER HUDSON APRIL 12, 2016
To survive and thrive, human beings must think. You might imagine that such a statement goes without saying. But you would be wrong. In fact, the necessity of thought has long been a contested notion in philosophical circles. Societies which embrace thinking , societies which embrace rationality, steadily improve the condition of mankind. Those who reject rationality devolve into darkness, fostering human suffering.
Stanford Students: O!ering Western Civilization Classes Destroys Diversity
The generation making its way through academia today seems intent on the latter course, as evidenced most recently by news out of Stanford University. There, the student government just voted down a motion to require freshmen to learn “the politics, history, philosophy, and culture of the Western world” by a 6 to 1 margin. From the Daily Caller:
In contrast, over 90 percent of students voted in favor of an initiative requiring the school to administer a new campus climate survey designed to find the rate of sexual assault on campus. The school already administered such a survey in 2015, but it outraged activists by finding a sexual assault rate of just 1.9%, which they deemed far too low.
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The mere suggestion that Stanford require studying Western civilization
had generated immense outrage among certain Stanford communities. A low-income advocacy group at the school suspended a
member based on the suspicion that he wrote an anonymous piece
supporting the proposal. A hostile column in The Stanford Daily warned
that accepting the proposal would mean centering Stanford education
on “upholding white supremacy, capitalism and colonialism, and all
other oppressive systems that flow from Western civilizations.”
Slouching towards slavery.
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