Black Lives Matter college course faces sharp criticism

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Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, a professor at San Diego State University (SDSU) has helped the school create new course for the upcoming semester that has drawn criticism for including speakers from a movement whose members have been blamed for inciting violence.

The weekly course, called "Black Minds Matter: A Focus on Black Boys and Men in Education,” will be open to the public for enrollment in October and will feature various speakers who will talk about how black men are undervalued in the classroom.

San Diego State professor J. Luke Wood, who helped create the online course, said it will connect themes from the Black Lives Matter movement to issues facing blacks in educational settings.

Craig DeLuz, a gun-rights advocate with the Sacramento-based Firearms Policy Coalition, says that a public university should not be offering a course that includes speakers from the BLM movement.  

DeLuz has formed a coalition which is demanding that SDSU withdraw their approval of the doctoral level course because it likely aims to organize teachers, school administrators and college professors to engage in the political movement.

“Black Lives Matter is political movement. And even worse, it’s movement whose members have promoted segregation and violence against law enforcement”, said DeLuz, who is also a Sacramento area school board member, in a released statement. “Now we want to give them taxpayer dollars to train educators on how to indoctrinate our children? That’s insane!”

 

 

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“The Black Lives movement comes to the classroom via our doctoral class (livestreamed for the general public) instructing school and college leaders on how to prepare, educate, and mobilize their educators.”

 

The “Black Minds Matter” course will include presentations from left-wing figures like Patrisse Cullors,  one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement, and Malcolm X’s daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz.

DeLuz says that course is a double standard when it comes to political ideologies and activism on college campuses.

“Conservative students have to fight universities tooth and nail to get conservatives approved to speak on most campuses”, DeLuz said in his released statement. “But liberal speakers are not only getting funded to push a political ideology, the students who come to hear them can get college credit.”

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/30/black-lives-matter-college-course-faces-sharp-criticism.html

 

Making degrees a joke, this especially for doctoral-level classes..

 

When's the CSU Antifa inspired courses?  

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

 It’s not liberals on campus crushing Republican ideas. It’s conservatives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/07/26/its-not-liberals-on-campus-crushing-republican-ideas-its-conservatives/
 

Those who argue that students need more exposure to conservative thinking to understand our current political dynamic seem to be missing the fact that, when it matters most, conservatives have stopped being conservative.

Viewed dispassionately, the lesson that the most visible conservatives appear to be teaching our students is that power is more important than principle, that winning is more important than adhering to an ethical code, that compromise is failure, and maybe worst of all, that facts don’t matter.

It seems rather shortsighted in this broader context to lay the blame for the poor behavior and narrow-mindedness of some of our students chiefly at the door of colleges. They have more than a few role models beyond the boundaries of campus.

Related: Student protesters burn American flags at confrontation over Trump victory

Liberals are surely guilty of many of the same failures as conservatives. Hypocrisy is not confined to any particular demographic or political party. But I refuse to buy into the narrative of false equivalency. Put simply, there is no liberal equivalent to President Trump and all that he embodies. There is no liberal equivalent to the ongoing championing of Trump and all that he embodies.

Related: College president, rejecting ‘safe spaces,’ writes: ‘This is not a day care. This is a university!’

Let us concede that liberals have their classrooms and syllabi. Conservatives, on the other hand, hold majorities in both houses of Congress and control of 32 state legislatures. They hold the U.S. presidency and 33 governorships. They hold a majority on the Supreme Court that is likely to grow.

They have an almost unprecedented opportunity to show the country what conservative philosophy looks like in practice.

 

They have, that is, the chance to persuade all people, including the young ones who attend college, that their ideas are worth putting into practice and will advance the common good.

If they are unable to persuade a college sophomore that conservatism is worth embracing, why should we assume that the fault lies with the college?

I am prepared to insist upon the seriousness of conservative ideas. It would be far easier to do so if conservatives resumed taking those ideas seriously

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

 It’s not liberals on campus crushing Republican ideas. It’s conservatives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/07/26/its-not-liberals-on-campus-crushing-republican-ideas-its-conservatives/
 

Those who argue that students need more exposure to conservative thinking to understand our current political dynamic seem to be missing the fact that, when it matters most, conservatives have stopped being conservative.

 

 

 

    It's sometimes looks like they've stopped the thinking part as well.

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The real reason there are so few conservatives on campus

 

http://theweek.com/articles/715836/real-reason-there-are-few-conservatives-campus

 

 

conservative professors are vastly outnumbered on college campuses by those on the left. And conventional wisdom holds that the source of the imbalance is flagrant ideological bias on the part of the faculty members and administrators who make hiring decisions.

The first claim is mostly (though not entirely) true. But the second is almost entirely wrong.

The consequences of that error are significant and alarming, encouraging a view of universities that is undoubtedly contributing to the recent sharp uptick in hostility toward higher education among Republicans. The reality of academic life is more complicated — and less deserving of a destructive, indignant response.

The ideological imbalance on campus is real, but it isn't as all-pervasive as rhetoric on the right tends to presume. Professional schools — business and medical schools especially — show no leftward bias and sometimes even lean to the right. Hard scientists may be far more predisposed toward atheism than the general public, but their work has nothing at all to do with politics as typically defined. The social sciences lean more heavily toward the left, though economics departments often employ significant numbers of libertarians, while political science departments frequently include more than a handful of conservatives.

 

That leaves the humanities — English, comparative literature, philosophy, history, and various interdisciplinary departments of cultural studies — as the place on campus where the ideological imbalance is usually most evident.

Is this because faculty members in the humanities are politically engaged leftists who actively avoid hiring conservatives? There may be some of this. But more significant is the fact that many conservatives are led to study the humanities for reasons that differ dramatically from the motives that typically prevail among faculty members and receive the richest professional rewards within the academy. This is especially true at the most elite universities, where a strong record of research and publication in peer-reviewed journals and university-press books is a requirement for hiring, tenure, and promotion — and where the ideological imbalance is most pronounced.

Professors are trained as graduate students to become scholars — and scholarship in our time is defined as an effort to make progress in knowledge. The meaning of progress in the hard sciences is fairly obvious. But what does it mean to make progress in our knowledge of, say, English literature? One possibility is to find obscure, previously neglected authors and make a case for their importance. (This could be described as making progress in knowledge by way of expanding the canon

3 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    It's sometimes looks like they've stopped the thinking part as well.

Yes see the next article above

Edited August 30, 2017 by Il Mango Dulce

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Reality and fact have a natural liberal bias.

 

Furthermore, education is for the elites, who also have a liberal bias.

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1 minute ago, CaliCat said:

Reality and fact have a natural liberal bias.

 

Furthermore, education is for the elites, who also have a liberal bias.

Dr Sebastian Gorka PhD is not a liberal, I tell you!

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Just now, Jacque67 said:

Dr Sebastian Gorka PhD is not a liberal, I tell you!

 

A PhD?? Who cares!? Anyone can get one of those through the school of hard knocks. 

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3 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

A PhD?? Who cares!? Anyone can get one of those through the school of hard knocks. 

Dr Sebastian Gorka PhD cares! And he's an alpha!

[Jacque67 7,328]

 

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8 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

 

Both of those guys workout, alot, which explains their alpha apperance

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2 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

Both of those guys workout, alot, which explains their alpha apperance

It's pajama party time.

Word is, Bannon is on a juice diet!

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4 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Word is, Bannon is on a juice diet!

 

oh come on, orange jubilee mad dog is not juice!

[Jacque67 7,328]

5 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

 

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5 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

 

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Lol

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6 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

 

oh come on, orange jubilee mad dog is not juice!

Oh..then why do I get juiced on it? 

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36 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

Reality and fact have a natural liberal bias.

 

Furthermore, education is for the elites, who also have a liberal bias.

This explains why Venezuela has so many well educated elites