Yale administrators must be loving getting money for this level of stupidity:

Too many white English poets in a two course requirement about ... Major English poets?!?

Quote:When students are made to feel so alienated that they get up and leave the room, or get up and leave the major, something is wrong. The English department loses out when talented students engaged in literary and cultural analysis are driven away from the major. Students who continue on after taking the introductory sequence are ill-prepared to take higher-level courses relating to race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, ability, or even to engage with critical theory or secondary scholarship. We ask that Major English Poets be abolished, and that the pre-1800/1900 requirements be refocused to deliberately include literatures relating to gender, race, sexuality, ableism, and ethnicity.

It’s time for the English major to decolonize — not diversify — its course offerings. A 21st century education is a diverse education: we write to you today inspired by student activism across the university, and to make sure that you know that the English department is not immune from the collective call to action.

Even Slate authors are letting these knuckleheaded dumb-dumbs have it..

My girlfriend will like this... she has a particular hatred for Yale.

(06-06-2016 05:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  My girlfriend will like this... she has a particular hatred for Yale.

That seems an oddly specific hatred.

(06-06-2016 05:46 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 05:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  My girlfriend will like this... she has a particular hatred for Yale.

That seems an oddly specific hatred.

It's a rivalry thing. She has a tendency to whisper yuck fale when people with Yale gear pass her.

(06-06-2016 06:05 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 05:46 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 05:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  My girlfriend will like this... she has a particular hatred for Yale.

That seems an oddly specific hatred.

It's a rivalry thing. She has a tendency to whisper yuck fale when people with Yale gear pass her.

Happen a lot in Idaho?

(06-06-2016 06:14 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 06:05 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 05:46 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 05:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  My girlfriend will like this... she has a particular hatred for Yale.

That seems an oddly specific hatred.

It's a rivalry thing. She has a tendency to whisper yuck fale when people with Yale gear pass her.

Happen a lot in Idaho?

I hate to break it to these dipshits in Connecticut, but most folks who spoke English in the 1700s and 1800s were white folks. It's hard to have Hispanics, Africans, and Asians represented in an English class when THEY DIDNT SPEAK FREAKING ENGLISH!!

John Donne and Edmund Spenser are much more than entertaining and deep than Maya Angelou.

(06-06-2016 08:25 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  John Donne and Edmund Spenser are much more than entertaining and deep than Maya Angelou.

Plus, you know, Maya Angelou wasn't born in the 1800s

(06-06-2016 06:14 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 06:05 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 05:46 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 05:27 PM)dmacfour Wrote:  My girlfriend will like this... she has a particular hatred for Yale.

That seems an oddly specific hatred.

It's a rivalry thing. She has a tendency to whisper yuck fale when people with Yale gear pass her.

Happen a lot in Idaho?

I'm happy to say I'm no longer a resident of Idaho.

Ok, I'll re-ask the question....

Happen much in Pyongyang?