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PC students demand white philosophers be dropped off university course
They are titans of philosophy, without whose work an understanding of the subject is all but inconceivable. But now students at a University of London college are demanding that such seminal figures as Plato, Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell should be largely dropped from the curriculum simply because they are white.
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It would very well depend on the course subject/title. If it were Eastern or African Philosophy
then yep.
But that should not disregard comparison(s).
Stupid
To be fair, though, this is a racially charged outrage piece in a particularly shabby British tabloid. I wouldn't line a cage with that rubbish. That this user went with this source for this story tells you all you need to know around what their motive is in posting it.
Any other source might've made something else of it.
" The answer to these injustices, however, must be critical engagement and a push for diversity. It cannot be another “whitewash”."
A much more ephemistic way of addressing the subject, writing is like going fishing. It takes different bait to attract.