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AFRICAN-FINN MINNA SALAMI THINKS UNIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY COURSES TOO CROWDED WITH DEAD WHITE MEN…….

Racist!

Yet another post-enlightenment advocate (Frankfurt School) in a sea of post-enlightenment institutions.

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This is a continuance of the full frontal attack on Western thought and free market capitalism (that has given rise to the greatest period of prosperity in spite of all the problems and horrors in world history) by the traditional Left and their acolytes in university departments of the humanities and social sciences.

NOTE: That she champions radical marxist Angela Davis should be a dead give-away.

Yeah, more Davis and less Montesqieu right? I think not.

Philosophy has to be about more than white men

The campaign to counter the narrow-mindedness of university courses is gathering pace because philosophy should investigate all human existence

The Battle of Otumba in 1520
Aztec thinking was all but erased from history after their defeat by the Spanish. Photograph: Archivo Iconografico/Corbis

Across the country, students have been “dismantling the master’s house”. They weren’t smashing their principals’ offices, but rather demanding a revision of their predominantly white, predominantly male curricula. From UCL to LSE to York, Warwick, Nottingham and Kent, the student-led campaign “Why Is My Curriculum White?” has attracted thousands of people concerned that the course content at universities across the country reflects white dominance and under-represents black people.

It is about time too. The demographics of Britain are changing. Ethnicity, religion, heritage, language are increasingly part of the national discussion. Universities play a key role in shaping thought and policy that can relieve current tensions, and foster a culture of justice and equality. However, they can only do that if they themselves are just and equal.

Critics of the campaign argue that it undermines academic freedom; that all knowledge is of equal worth; that students ought to transcend cultural background in the interest of expanding knowledge; and that there are very good reasons why a philosophy, economics or history curriculum might be full of the works of dead white males. Very good reasons indeed: some of these include the systemic killing of female philosophers, massacres of some of our earliest thinkers such as the Aztec; and the destruction of ancient African cities that illuminate the thinking of old civilisations.

That is not all. When it comes to philosophy, for instance – a particularly important discipline as our world is built on ideas – the work of white males, dead or alive, dominates the field. This is not simply because white males have contributed profound work, but also due to the glaring yet tacitly silenced relationship between power structures and knowledge. This is why philosophy professor Angela Davis’s complex body of work on the social justice system has not influenced contemporary philosophical studies on prisons in the way Michel Foucault’s work on the same topic has. Or why the Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yaekob, who long before Nietzsche declared that “God is dead”, daringly criticised organised religion in his 1667 treatise, Hatata, where he also said: “He who investigates with pure intelligence … will discover the truth.” But despite promoting reason in this way, he is not dubbed the father of modern philosophy, Descartes is.

More here. H/T: Fjordman

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  1. “……. argue that it undermines academic freedom; that all knowledge is of equal worth; that students ought to transcend cultural background in the interest of expanding knowledge; and that there are very good reasons why a philosophy, economics or history curriculum might be full of the works of dead white males. Very good reasons indeed: some of these include the ….. fact that unfortunately other races and cultures have contributed next to nothing in the hard sciences, health and biology, legal and civil rights areas.

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