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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP. Why bother with a reasoned refute? Anyone who says with  a straight face "Most stuff written by non-Whites is vastly inferior. Compare Plato/Aristotle to Du Boies. No contest."

She starts with a hasty generalization then moves onto a false analogy.

Seriously. There is no gray matter or intellectual curiosity there to work with.[/quote]

Is it really? I don't know who Du Boies is, and I read only a little Plato since I studied engineering. Are they wrong about these writers? Why?[/quote]

WEB Du Bois (note the spelling) was a 19th and 20th century writer and historian. Aristotle and a Plato are 4th and 5th century BC philosophers. Comparing them and their scope of work is unhelpful. They were all brilliant for what they did.

The Harlem Renaissance writers produced some of the best poetry and music of the last two centuries. Everyone on that syllabus is recognized as creme de la creme.

That poster's grievance seems to be that 2500 year old Greek polemics are being replaced by more current and relevant polemics in mainstream syllabi.

And she/he is being reductive by labeling it grievance lit. The odds are that poster actually read any of it are exceedingly small[/quote]

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