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Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 22, 2020, 12:38 am
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We have a degree program!
home.dominican.edu/news/2019/07/social-justice/
[quote]In response to a growing number of students interested in
careers focused on social justice and civic engagement,
Dominican University of California is adding a new degree
program social justice this fall.
The Social Justice major will examine the links between
well-being, social justice, and diverse worldviews and teach
students to analyze social injustices and work toward positive
social change. The major will integrate coursework, faculty
expertise, and practical experience and exposure gained through
engagement with community partners.[/quote]
I would like to see some course content.
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Some good news:
www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49435041
[quote]Glasgow University has agreed to raise and spend £20m in
reparations after discovering it benefited by millions of pounds
from the slave trade.
It is believed to be the first institution in the UK to
implement such a "programme of restorative justice".
The money will be raised and spent over the next 20 years on
setting up and running the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for
Development Research.
It will be managed in partnership with the University of the
West Indies.
The centre, to be co-located in Glasgow and the Caribbean, will
sponsor research work and raise awareness of the history of
slavery and its impact around the world.
Prof Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of the University of
the West Indies, said the university's decision was a "bold,
moral, historic step" in recognising the slavery aspect of its
past.
The move comes almost a year after a study by the university
looked at thousands of donations it received in the 18th and
19th Centuries.
It found many were from people whose wealth came from slavery.
University bosses said that although it never owned enslaved
people or traded in the goods they produced, it was clear it had
received significant financial support.
In total, the money it received is estimated as having a present
day value of between £16.7m and £198m.Dr Mullen said the
research was the first report of its type in British history and
Glasgow was the first university to acknowledge financial income
from slavery on such a scale.[/quote]
Consider that if colonial-era slavery had never existed, none of
these donations to universities would have been made, the rate
of empirical knowledge expansion would have been slower due to
less funding, and surely we would be living in a less complex
world today. In reality, however, although slavery has since
been abolished, we are still stuck with all that empirical
knowledge which should never have been discovered. Even giving
back the money now (while a nice gesture) won't erase the
knowledge already discovered. Only the total death of Western
civilization can perhaps achieve this.
[quote]However, Glasgow's decision to begin a programme of
reparations has not been universally welcomed.
Author and academic Joanna Williams said: "For me, the number
one problem with this is that it suggests people who are alive
today bear some historical responsibility for what their
ancestors did in the past.
"[These were] truly barbaric and criminal acts, but to suggest
that people alive today are responsible for the sins of their
ancestors is a step too far."
She added: "It also suggests that other people who are alive
today are victims of what happened to their ancestors. There
comes a point we all need to move on from that and say that the
past is the past."[/quote]
Yes. That point will come when:
1) all descendants of colonialists have either voluntarily
refrained or been prohibited from reproducing (currently not yet
the case)
2) all identitarian concepts (e.g. "whiteness") from the
colonial era have been discarded (currently not yet the case)
3) all symbols associated with colonialism (e.g. British Empire
flag) have been discarded (currently not yet the case)
Until that occurs, the past evidently continues into the
present, and to claim that "the past is the past" is
intellectually dishonest.
No individual alive today bears responsibility for what their
ancestors did in the past. On the other hand, every individual
alive today has a duty to not transmit any further forward the
bloodlines of those ancestors, and therein that very blood which
caused those ancestors to behave as they historically did. To
reproduce despite knowing your ancestors were colonialists is to
increase the chances of colonialism happening again.
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yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/01/24/art-history-department-to-scra
p-survey-course/
[quote]Yale will stop teaching a storied introductory survey
course in art history, citing the impossibility of adequately
covering the entire field — and its varied cultural backgrounds
— in one course.
Decades old and once taught by famous Yale professors like
Vincent Scully, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the
Present” was once touted to be one of Yale College’s
quintessential classes. But this change is the latest response
to student uneasiness over an idealized Western “canon” — a
product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male
cadre of artists.
This spring, the final rendition of the course will seek to
question the idea of Western art itself — a marked difference
from the course’s focus at its inception. Art history department
chair and the course’s instructor Tim Barringer told the News
that he plans to demonstrate that a class about the history of
art does not just mean Western art. Rather, when there are so
many other regions, genres and traditions — all “equally
deserving of study” — putting European art on a pedestal is
“problematic,” he said.[/quote]
Absolutely. An American university, in particular, should
primarily focus on New World art history. And when secondarily
covering Old World art history, it should certainly cover all of
the Old World rather than ignore the parts which did not
colonize the New World!
I do encourage studying Western art, but through non-Western
eyes able to perceive its ugliness:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/
This is infinitely more helpful than studying art around the
world through Western eyes (which will consider Western art
superior).
[quote]The decision to get rid of this survey art history course
resembles the English Department’s move to “decolonize” its
degree requirements in 2017. At the time, the department made a
sequence titled “Major English Poets” optional for majors.
For years, the Directed Studies program — a six-credit sequence
for first-year students focusing on philosophy, literature and
political philosophy — has also fielded criticisms about its
exclusive focus on the Western canon.[/quote]
We have plenty of work awaiting.....
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It used to be commonplace during counterculture times to mock
Ivy League Universities as being elitist havens for
Westerners.....
We would even make fun of their antiquated renaissance era
architecture, which they insisted on not changing due to
"heritage"!
Yet look at what has happened now, Gentiles, most of whom are
younger, fashionably proclaiming that monuments to Western icons
explicitly be preserved due to precisely that reason:
"heritage".
Oh how times have changed.
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[quote]Ignorance and Indoctrination of Westerners Kills Millions
Our Planet Earth is heading straight towards the most dangerous
collision in its history. It is not a collision with some
foreign body, with an asteroid or a comet, but with the most
brutal and selfish chunk of its own inhabitants: with people who
proudly call themselves “members of the Western civilization.”
Again and again it is clearly demonstrated that Western culture,
which the paramount psychologist Carl Jung used to call
“pathology”, couldn’t be trusted.[/quote]
www.globalresearch.ca/ignorance-and-indoctrination-of-westerners
-kills-millions/5489648
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: rp Date: November 23, 2020, 1:10 am
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Do you know who the author of this post was?:
[quote]It used to be commonplace during counterculture times to
mock Ivy League Universities as being elitist havens for
Westerners.....
We would even make fun of their antiquated renaissance era
architecture, which they insisted on not changing due to
"heritage"!
Yet look at what has happened now, Gentiles, most of whom are
younger, fashionably proclaiming that monuments to Western icons
explicitly be preserved due to precisely that reason:
"heritage".
Oh how times have changed.[/quote]
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 23, 2020, 2:16 am
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You!
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 18, 2020, 10:58 pm
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HTML https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-scholar-receives-prize-revolutionizing-how-we-look-aztec-society
[quote]When Camilla Townsend set out to tell the story of the
Aztecs, the Indigenous population of central Mexico whose
government was wiped out following the arrival of Spanish
explorers, she began a project that challenged previous beliefs
about their lives.
For 500 years, understanding of the Aztec people was based on
accounts written by their conquerors, or sometimes by Indigenous
people answering leading questions put to them by Spanish
historians. These accounts contained misinterpretations, now
widely taught in schools as “facts,” including that the Aztecs
were obsessed with death, and that they thought the Spanish
conquistadors were gods.
But Townsend, a Distinguished Professor of History in the School
of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick, realized that to
gain an accurate understanding of native populations, research
should focus on what the people said about themselves in their
own language when they were in the privacy of their own homes,
addressing themselves to their own descendants.
...
“Camilla Townsend revolutionizes how we should look at Aztec
society before, during and after the arrival of Europeans in
Central America,” said Peter Francopan, the prize’s 2020 jury
chair. “After more than 500 years, we are finally able to see
history through the eyes of the Indigenous people themselves
rather than those of their conquerors. Not many books completely
transform how we look at the past. This is one of those that
does.”[/quote]
This is what we need more of.
[quote]“I found some surprises in what they wrote. For instance,
there is absolutely no evidence that anyone thought Cortés, or
any other Spaniard, was a god returning from the east. That
story, as it turns out, comes initially from Spanish comments
made later in the century,” she said.[/quote]
I suspected as much.
[quote]The Nahuatl sources portray Cortéz and the Spanish as
powerful men who raped, burned and killed with impunity and
whose metal weapons, gunpowder and smallpox overwhelmed
Moctezuma’s efforts to fight them off or trade gold for peace,
Townsend says.[/quote]
In other words, Nahuatl sources portray Cortez & Co. as
Westerners. Which is what they were. (Cortez was also Jewish. In
fact he was Pizarro's cousin!)
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s
[quote]Through his mother, Hernán was second cousin once removed
of Francisco Pizarro, who later conquered the Inca Empire of
modern-day Peru, and not to be confused with another Francisco
Pizarro, who joined Cortés to conquer the Aztecs.[/quote]
Colonialism runs in their family! This is it is so important to
exterminate colonialist bloodlines.
Back to the article:
[quote]Townsend is currently studying the traditions of the
Lenape, or Delaware, people who were indigenous to New Jersey
but who in the 18th century were pushed out by European
colonists and now live in Oklahoma.[/quote]
Keep up the good work!
But although we have finally cleared up that the Aztecs did not
think Cortez was a god, it unfortunately remains reality that
too many of their present-day descendants think present-day
"whites" are gods:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/
and want to reproduce with them:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/
We are here to change this.
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 21, 2020, 10:45 pm
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HTML https://nypost.com/2020/12/19/faculty-at-nycs-dalton-school-issues-8-page-anti-racism-manifesto/
[quote]Abolishing high-level academic courses by 2023 if the
performance of black students is not on par with non-blacks.
[/quote]
This is basically what I advocated for years ago, in opposition
to the False Leftists (actually neocons) who wanted ways to
'improve' (according to Western standards) "black" student
performance in Western subjects. As I said back then, the
"black" student underperformance is not the problem; the problem
is the Western standards and the Western subjects themselves. If
anything, "black" underperformance in Western subjects is a
healthy reaction. Contrast with Jewish overperformance:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/other/racial-jewishness-archive-from-true-left-forum/
Imagine if the above policy had been implemented worldwide by
1823 instead of 2023. Almost all of the following could have
been avoided:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
This is what academic decolonization truly means. Many of the
academic subjects studied today were never meant to exist in the
world and would never have existed if not for post-Renaissance
Western civilization bringing them into existence. But with the
above measure applied worldwide we could end their existence
within one generational cycle and begin to heal the world.
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 9, 2021, 11:15 pm
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HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2021/01/09/muslim-teaching-assiatant-at-johns-hopkins-university-threatens-to-fail-pro-israel-students/
HTML https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/135313517_1110657252778798_6453914618832752942_o.jpg
Do it!
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 17, 2021, 12:50 am
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HTML https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/state-school-standards-banish-lessons-world-war-ii-holocaust-civil-war/
[quote]State school standards banish lessons about World War I,
II, Holocaust, Civil War
...
The new standards call for students to describe "the tactics
used by the United States government to claim indigenous and
Mexican land, including but not limited to an analysis of the
ideology of Manifest Destiny and its relationship to whiteness,
Christianity, and capitalism; and analyze the strategies used by
Native Americans and Mexicans to respond to U.S. settler
colonialism."[/quote]
Not a bad start at all. Which is not to say that WWII is not an
important topic, but by removing it from the school syllabus
(which has taught it with bias against Hitler) hopefully it will
become easier for people to approach the topic later without
prejudice. (Perhaps one day the reaction by students to the term
"Holocaust" will simply be "What's that?")
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 29, 2021, 10:49 pm
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Our enemy Glenn Beck acknowledges the success of our Demographic
Blueshift strategy:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML5m8Z0TtWI
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 3, 2021, 11:04 pm
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HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html
[quote]They have noted that in fifth-century-B.C. Athens, which
has been celebrated as the birthplace of democracy,
participation in politics was restricted to male citizens;
thousands of enslaved people worked and died in silver mines
south of the city, and custom dictated that upper-class women
could not leave the house unless they were veiled and
accompanied by a male relative. They have shown that the concept
of Western civilization emerged as a euphemism for “white
civilization” in the writing of men like Lothrop Stoddard, a
Klansman and eugenicist. Some classicists have come around to
the idea that their discipline forms part of the scaffold of
white supremacy — a traumatic process one described to me as
“reverse red-pilling” — but they are also starting to see an
opportunity in their position. Because classics played a role in
constructing whiteness, they believed, perhaps the field also
had a role to play in its dismantling.
...
Padilla’s vision of classics’ complicity in systemic injustice
is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies.
He has condemned the field as “equal parts vampire and cannibal”
— a dangerous force that has been used to murder, enslave and
subjugate. “He’s on record as saying that he’s not sure the
discipline deserves a future,” Denis Feeney, a Latinist at
Princeton, told me. Padilla believes that classics is so
entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.
“Far from being extrinsic to the study of Greco-Roman
antiquity,” he has written, “the production of whiteness turns
on closer examination to reside in the very marrows of
classics.”
When Padilla ended his talk, the audience was invited to ask
questions. Williams, an independent scholar from California, was
one of the first to speak. She rose from her seat in the front
row and adjusted a standing microphone that had been placed in
the center of the room. “I’ll probably offend all of you,” she
began. Rather than kowtowing to criticism, Williams said, “maybe
we should start defending our discipline.” She protested that it
was imperative to stand up for the classics as the political,
literary and philosophical foundation of European and American
culture: “It’s Western civilization. It matters because it’s the
West.” Hadn’t classics given us the concepts of liberty,
equality and democracy?[/quote]
At this point, if only Padilla had responded that America is not
the West, he could have taken the discussion to the level we are
already at and waiting for the rest of the world to catch up to.
But of course he did not.
False Leftists have to confront their internal contradiction
sooner or later. You cannot love democracy and hate Western
civilization. Either you love both or you hate both. But until
False Leftists make this choice, they will remain rhetorically
impaired.
[quote]Like their counterparts in the United States, slavers in
the Dominican Republic sometimes bestowed classical names on
their charges as a mark of their civilizing mission, so the
legacy of slavery — and its entanglement with classics — remains
legible in the names of many Dominicans today. “Why are there
Dominicans named Temístocles?” Padilla used to wonder as a kid.
“Why is Manny Ramirez’s middle name Aristides?” Trujillo’s own
middle name was Leónidas, after the Spartan king who martyred
himself with 300 of his soldiers at Thermopylae, and who has
become an icon of the far right.[/quote]
This should be considered embarassing.
[quote]Now he watched as alt-right figures like Richard Spencer,
who had fantasized about creating a “white ethno-state on the
North American continent” that would be “a reconstitution of the
Roman Empire,” rose to national prominence. In response to
rising anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and the United States,
Mary Beard, perhaps the most famous classicist alive, wrote in
The Wall Street Journal that the Romans “would have been puzzled
by our modern problems with migration and asylum,” because the
empire was founded on the “principles of incorporation and of
the free movement of people.”[/quote]
Beard is actually correct (though I would add that the Roman
Empire also ended democracy). But look at Padilla's idiotic
response:
[quote]Padilla found himself frustrated by the manner in which
scholars were trying to combat Trumpian rhetoric. In November
2015, he wrote an essay for Eidolon, an online classics journal,
clarifying that in Rome, as in the United States, paeans to
multiculturalism coexisted with hatred of foreigners. Defending
a client in court, Cicero argued that “denying foreigners access
to our city is patently inhumane,” but ancient authors also
recount the expulsions of whole “suspect” populations, including
a roundup of Jews in 139 B.C., who were not considered “suitable
enough to live alongside Romans.”[/quote]
Jews were not considered suitable to live alongside Romans not
because they were foreigners, but because they were Jews and
therefore racists. As we keep on repeating, hostility towards
Jews is anti-racism.
[quote]Enlightenment thinkers created a hierarchy with Greece
and Rome, coded as white, on top, and everything else below.
“That exclusion was at the heart of classics as a project,” Paul
Kosmin, a professor of ancient history at Harvard, told me.
Among those Enlightenment thinkers were many of America’s
founding fathers. Aristotle’s belief that some people were
“slaves by nature” was welcomed with special zeal in the
American South before the Civil War, which sought to defend
slavery in the face of abolitionist critique. In “Notes on the
State of Virginia,” Thomas Jefferson wrote that despite their
condition in life, Rome’s enslaved showed themselves to be the
“rarest artists” who “excelled too at science, insomuch as to be
usually employed as tutors to their master’s children.” The fact
that Africans had not done the same, he argued, proved that the
problem was their race.[/quote]
I am thankful they had not done the same, or else the world
would be in an even worse situation by today.
[quote]Jefferson, along with most wealthy young men of his time,
studied classics at college, where students often spent half
their time reading and translating Greek and Roman texts. “Next
to Christianity,” writes Caroline Winterer, a historian at
Stanford, “the central intellectual project in America before
the late 19th century was classicism.” [/quote]
[quote]While the founding fathers chose to emulate the Roman
republic, fearful of the tyranny of the majority, later
generations of Americans drew inspiration from Athenian
democracy, particularly after the franchise was extended to
nearly all white men regardless of property ownership in the
early decades of the 1800s.[/quote]
And look where that led. The US should have transitioned from
republic to dictatorship like Rome did.
[quote]Joshua Katz, a prominent Princeton classicist, published
an op-ed in the online magazine Quillette in which he referred
to the Black Justice League, a student group, as a “terrorist
organization”[/quote]
Katz is a Jewish surname. Jews are racist. The US should have
excluded Jews like Rome did.
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Re: Psychological decolonization
By: Zea_mays Date: March 14, 2021, 5:47 pm
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Music Theory and White Supremacy
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA
As explained in the later part of the video, the basis of the
academic study of "music theory" consisting of the study of only
post-Renaissance Western styles can most strongly be traced back
to the Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schenker
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