The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: The academic equivalent of telling students that their choco rations increased to 20 grams from 30 grams.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     What was once the receptacle of the knowledge of Western Civilization has become the form of its destructor.

“A group of Cornell University faculty, graduate students and staff sent a letter to the university administration with a handful of demands.

“In particular, the activists at the Ivy League school want to see a change in the curricula to emphasize ‘decolonized readings.’

“It’s one of a number of demands made at the university to address the treatment of black, indigenous and people of color, referred to through the letter as ‘BIPOC.’ The school has previously responded to other demands made by activists this summer.

“The group demanded in its September 8 letter posted to Medium that administrators ‘embed decolonized readings in every possible course at Cornell, including but not necessarily limited to the social sciences and humanities.’”

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