College Class On Greco-Roman Books May Be Changed For 'Being Too White'

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

thecollegefix

Max Diamond - Reed College •May 5, 2017

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32453/

[excerpt]

At Reed College, a mandatory freshman literature course focused on the works of great thinkers underpinning Western Civilization has come under fire from campus activists, who allege the mandate is systemically racist because the class only assigns the works of white authors and therefore perpetuates white privilege and racism.

The target is Humanities 110, “Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean,” an introduction to the works of celebrated Greco-Roman thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato, Epictetus and Ovid.

Humanities 110, which has evolved over the years, has been a required course at the private, Portland, Ore.-based liberal arts college for decades, but a group of students calling themselves Reedies Against Racism want the curriculum changed.

[Oceander]

[bolobaby]

I remember seeing these place mats around the edge of which were "famous African Americans."

90% of those pictured were on the place mat for one of two reasons:

1) Civil rights leader and/or abolitionist
2) First black [insert thing here]

While civil rights is important, I couldn't help but think, "This is kind of sad. Surely there are black people who have contributed to society more meaningfully than simply in the name of 'the struggle.' Why don't we know those names first and foremost?"

[mountaineer]

How many of the great thinkers from Greece and the Ancient Mediterranean were not white/Greek/Roman authors? Couldn't these snowflakes take any of a few dozen other courses in African-American, Lesbian, Gay, Queer, Latino, Chicano, Cubano, etc., etc.,  ad nauseam literature offered by this joke of a school in addition to just this one stinking little course on the ancient Greeks?

[Dexter]

Social justice warriors have to find something to be outraged about. Cut em' a break.