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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our culture no longer has any guiding values or convictions. Just a general sense of shame and an unquestioning belief that any idea put forward by oppressed or non-western people is categorically correct. [/quote]

I’m a professor, though I am not in the humanities. It’s wild to think about how much has changed in even the past 10 years. I have really had to think about how I talk about certain topics for fear of saying the wrong thing. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to be more mindful of our language and consider how it impacts others, but I think the pendulum has swung too far. There’s a lot of talk and pressure to “decolonize your syllabus”, include works from more diverse voices, hire faculty focused on DEI no matter what the discipline. It seems that in the effort to combat “the WEIRD problem” young people have gotten the message that Western = bad. The intention behind this stuff makes sense to adults who can appreciate the history and nuance. The point was to include non-Western perspectives *in addition to* the traditional Western voices. But it’s not being received in the intended way by people who lack the proper education, experience, and brain development. And now they’re getting exposed to some crazy ideas on TikTok where they spend a lot more time than they spend in class. It’s not good.[/quote]

It is amazing the messaging that American kids get that Western=bad

The reality is almost everyone in the world wants to move to the US because of opportunities that they do not have in their countries. [/quote]

In 10 years there will be no Americans in US in the sense we have them now. We rename all the historical places like George Mason school or Abraham Lincoln so they don't know their history. We re-write the history for them, so they never know what actually happened. It may not even take 10 years from now. [/quote]

Omg the great replacement theory lives on.[/quote]
It’s GOP dogma. Of course it lives on; they’re still indoctrinating their youth.[/quote]

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