If you’re way woke, this might be music to your ears.
As indicated by internal documents acquired by The Telegraph, following Black Lives Matter protests, Oxford University is feeling pressure to clean up its act.
Amid the sweep: a decolonizing of curriculum.
And one professor at the world’s oldest English-speaking university has purportedly proposed removing a “colonialist” clunker: Western musical notation.
As it turns out, it would help purge “white hegemony” from the school.
The teacher allegedly asserted that Oxford’s currently-offered classical repertoire which includes works by Beethoven and Mozart is too concentrated on “white European music from the slave period.”
Society appears to be fighting racism for all its worth.
But how and where do you fight, if virtually everything’s been declared racist?
And if institutions are the ones announcing the omnipresence of institutional racism, aren’t they fingering
themselves? But if they believe racism is racist, how can they still be instituting it?
Amid the mess comes recent discoveries by California-based Stanford Law School.
As reported by The Daily Wire, new research hub “Youth Justice Lab” is a policy research center as well as a three-unit law course.
The school website puts it thusly:
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and calls for police reform, the United States is in the midst of a national reckoning that is forcing us to confront systemic racism and the institutions that perpetuate anti-Black racism, white supremacy, and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
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The A.V. Club saying, “those screenshots have been falsified, and since they are the entire premise of the story, we are requesting an immediate, full retraction and an apology from your publication. To be clear: Ben has never DM’d @Seinfeld2000, nor has he blocked that account. The exchange is a pure fabrication.” We have reached out to the admin of the @Seinfeld2000 account asking for corroboration. We here at
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Two-thirds of Americans believe the ongoing corporate political wokeness that has overtaken much of its dialogue has gone too far, according to a poll by Public Opinion Strategies.The poll, commissioned
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