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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this comment from a student as offensive as black professors who make a point of disparaging "dead white males" in front of the white students in their classes?  My DS told me that's what one of his professors did and that it made him feel unwelcome in her class, as if she felt white males could safely be mocked. [/quote]

I am trying real hard to figure out why your DS saw this as white people being mocked.  Its a cliche thats thrown around to refer to the traditional cannon.  Mostly I've heard it mentioned by white men and the point is that the traditional cannon is limited and should be expanded.  How is this any worse than sitting in a history and learning about what white people did to enforce Jim Crowe?  If you can't hear about white people in any kind of negative light, you don't belong in college.  And the phrase "dead white males" isn't even a criticism of white men, its just shorthand for the fact that students should be studying MORE than those writers and thinkers.

I think your son just doesn't understand.  Maybe these classes are too advanced for him.[/quote]

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