A minority of attention whores, it won't happen because they don't even have majority support from ethnic minorities. Even if they did succeed it doesn't matter since philosophy departments were already ruined by postmodernism.
A minority of attention whores, it won't happen because they don't even have majority support from ethnic minorities...
Adrian Watson
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Jason Jackson
Good point.
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He suggests that at least some philo depts. have resisted this, so maybe not all is lost.
Wyatt Baker
You sure this isn't a false flag?
Wouldn't be the first time people are this retarded but it's always cause for suspicion
Mason Edwards
Good.
We've read more than enough from cis/het/white men. It's time to listen to what trans/queer/PoC have to say.
Andrew Morris
>The student union at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) insists that when studying philosophy “the majority of philosophers on our courses” should be from Africa and Asia.
>School studying Africa and the Orient want more figures of study to be African or Oriental
This sounds perfectly reasonable. Maybe you should have read a bit of your article OP.
Carter Wilson
Jacob Morris
Plato was Anatolian IE a Turk.
Zachary Perry
>This sounds perfectly reasonable. Maybe you should have read a bit of your article OP.
Should they stop learning math, because it was invented by White men? Instead of being an ethnic circle jerk, they should learn about the philosophies of other people in the world.
Brandon Evans
clearly this proves /pol/ was right! kill all niggers! race war now!
Jeremiah Walker
>philosophy departments were already ruined by postmodernism.
You must have missed the part where this was an anglo university. As such, part of the anglo-scandinavian tradition. No postmodernism there, merely autism.
Brayden Sanchez
>“If they think there is a colonial context from which Kant's Critique of Pure Reason arose, I would like to hear it.'
I like this guy
Blake Ramirez
If they're from a school named "University of African and Asian mathematical methods ", yes, of course, that seems to quite literally be the point of the school. .
Logan Kelly
The goal is reasonable, but the reason is stupid, "because they are white" isn't a valid reason, it's racism pure and simple.
Jonathan Walker
The school seems to be set up to exclude those people from the curriculum though
Alexander King
Students are the last people who should decide what should be taught in schools and universities.
Caleb Rogers
>But students at a prestigious London university
>The student union at the School of Oriental and African Studies
>prestigious London university
HAHAHAHAHA
SOAS is a shithole of lefty middle class pricks who can't get into a decent university but want to go to somewhere that doesn't get immediately tarred with the "oh, this person is second tier."
Its like deciding to suddenly go study abroad after you get rejected from all the decent unis in you're own country, you go abroad and tell everyone its actually really good.
Robert Howard
Yeah but is it really possible to fill a complete curriculum with them? There are ancient and modern philosophers, but the gap in between might be primarily filled with pre-modern European thinkers.
Gavin Fisher
Well yeah but that would be silly no? You get by with a few books on ancient mathematics which doesn't go very far beyond geometry of the plane and space, a bit of algebra, and perhaps something like series.
Easton Watson
Hardly even bait
Easton Nguyen
Sure, it's silly but its what the name of the school is and therefore what they signed up for. So they're entitled to get what they're paying for, even if you and I think it's shortsighted
David Smith
Kant was living in a colony settled on Baltic old Prussian land.
Christian Roberts
>yfw your children will know who Juba I was but not Augustus.
Caleb Adams
How is math invented by white men. Math is intrinsical
James Wood
These people come off as the Ultra radicals during the height of the French revolution, and we all know what happened after July 1794, there was massive backlash to everything they stood for. It's going to happen here. Already is. Trump's presidency (for better or worse), was a large part of America saying, "We're sick of your shit"
Ryan Clark
>plato
>white
Ryan Perez
If students demand that Plato and Kant should be removed from the curriculum for being white, the students should be removed from the curriculum for being stupid.
Leo Cruz
I'm pretty sure SOAS doesn't even have a maths department. The reason people go to that uni is because it's specialised.
If you're doing a course that focuses on africa or asia, it makes complete sense that you'd be more interested in east asian, or african (do they exist?) philosophers.
Evan Hernandez
It was invented by Egyptians, who was black...