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“De-colonizing” the curriculum to focus on race and “diversity.” Fri Feb 12, 2021
Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Another week, another Dead White Male toppled off his perch in the classics canon by university administration milquetoasts pandering to the woke, anti-intellectual mob. This time the DWM in question is medieval literary giant Geoffrey Chaucer of
The Canterbury Tales fame, courses on whom are being eliminated at the University of Leicester in England because the man often called the Father of English Literature doesn’t match the current “enthusiasms” of students there. Last month, the University announced its intention to remove courses in
Share What a tragedy if these are being denied to students now, and how crazy if this narrowing down is being done in the name of diversity or decolonization . The value of literature is to help is to imagine worlds we cannot otherwise reach, not to tell us about what is already familiar.
Whilst Leicester bosses will keep modules covering William Shakespeare s classic works, many of the academics who teach the under-threat courses could now lose their jobs.
The University of Leicester has denied the changes are because they are too white
According to The Telegraph, up to 60 jobs are now under threat.