The story of the students preferring African or Asian to European philosophy isn’t what it seems. These so-called PC snowflakes just care about learningWe all know what students are like nowadays,don’t we? Special snowflakes who can’t cope with the genuine world, who refuse to venture out of their secure spaces to memorize anything, or who are so achingly PC they won’t even let their institutions serve sushi in the cafeteria. When they’re not wasting their lives on social media or fighting for a fairer world for all,these mewling, overprivileged babies like to spend their time policing their academic superiors on their curriculum choices.
The latest scandal? Step forward SOAS, or University of London students’ union,which has outraged basically every outlet in the rightwing press by calling, astonishingly enough, and for such great philosophers as Kant,Plato and Descartes to be banned from the curriculum, just because they are white.
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Source: theguardian.com