Students demand philosophers are removed from syllabus because they are white

What the actual fuck?
telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/01/08/university-students-demand-philosophers-including-plato-kant/

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greeks count as white?
isn't there like a mediterranean ethnicity or something? in any cause, stupid sjw's be stupid

We resolved this yesterday.

>decolonise by removing Greeks
Fucking Persians

Th-there's no way this could happen, right?

I'm going to play devil's advocate for a moment here as I don't think greek philosophy should necessarily be removed from a philosophy course but:

It doesn't look like they want to REMOVE them though. This looks like an article meant to insight controversy and plays the SJW card against itself, which is no better.

"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."

SOAS University of London is the only Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.

If I paid money to go to a school that was focused on the above, I would agree with them actually. Correct me if I'm wrong, it doesn't look like they want greek philosophy removed (much less white philosophers), they just want a philosophy course taught at this obviously specializing school to focus on Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.

>philosophers from Africa

there's got to be at least one

>who is Augustine

>We resolved this yesterday.
care to fill me in? i missed it

Ah true, North Africa exists. Have there ever been any notable sub-Saharan African philosophers? Seems like the lack of written language would prevent that from being possible.

wish I could post a picture of a creampie without it getting removed. my life is a sad one.

are there any sub-saharan philosophers? genuinely interested

From a quick wikipedia search, Henry Odera Oruka looks like the most interesting.

They're all 20th/21st century of course, although a lot is about capturing oral traditions.

>Under proposed reforms to higher education, the Government wants to place student satisfaction at the heart of a new ranking system

Holy shit the Brits are fucking retarded

>student satisfaction
Good fucking God.

White just means Caucasian. I prefer just using Caucasian as even a very tan Italian is still "white."
So yeah, Greeks are white.

Augustine

Ooga Booga Dooga Boo is quite good, his theory of rocks is insightful, but other than that niggerland doesn't have anyone special

The student union doesn't want any Africans. They want only black Africans.

95% sure these guys would count Augustine as white. Attacks like these might be wrapped in geographical categories, but always boil down to "whiteness." Augustine's immersion in western culture would definitely disqualify him.

So I think

>philosophers from Africa

is still valid

That is absolutely ridiculous.

It astounds and baffles me that students can spend their entire lives learning, make the decision to go into higher education, get there, and then immediately do the most asinine things possible (and not see it for what it is).

It's actually really depressing - kinda makes me lose faith in humanity.

Are they really so unable to see the unimaginably high levels of irony, and hypocrisy, which are so completely pervading their actions?!

Responding to racism with racism is the same thing they are doing.

It is a childish response.

(In their case it is more perceived racism than actual racism, but your comment is the kind of attitude which fuels their sentiments, and gives groups like theirs justification.)