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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t believe people want to learn about non-white people.  What a waste of a brain.[/quote]
Most stuff written by non-Whites is vastly inferior. Compare Plato/Aristotle to Du Boies. No contest.

[b]Also, I find that when Leftists ask for “diversity” they just mean studying stuff that blacks and Hispanics have written. No Hindu, Chinese, or Islamic literature/philosophy. For example, look at this new “diverse” reading list for the Spring Humanities 110 class at Reed College( which they changed last year because of student protests)[/b]

“Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).
W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Vintage International, 1980).
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (New York: Harper Perennial, 2006).
David Levering Lewis, ed., The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (New York: Penguin, 1994).
Alain Locke, ed., Survey Graphic; Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro (Baltimore: Black Classic Books, 1980).
Jean Toomer, Cane (New York: Liveright, 2011).”

[b]Where’s all the Chinese, Hindu, and Islamic literature/philosophy?[/b]( you know, serious stuff that isn’t just people whining about how they can’t get ahead) You throw out St. Augustine’s Confessions so you can read Harlem Renaissance garbage? Give me a break![/quote]
That’s a very fair point that Leftists avoid[/quote]

It's not a point "leftists" avoid. A lot of Eastern lit and philosophy is offered, taught, and taken. It is an outright lie to say it isn't. That said, if you are going to college in the western world, there will be a fair amount of material from the western world. The fact that world is not all classic Roman and Greeks may have eluded you, however.[/quote]

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