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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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.[/b]

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]
Oh please, this is hilarious. Compared to writers/poets like Eliot, Frost, Faulkner, Hawthorne, Melville, and Coleridge, Harlem Renaissance Lit is garbage. I was forced to suffer through some of it for a few weeks at prep school, so yes I’ve read it.[/quote]

Further, compared to best foreign writers and poets, which is what we should have more of, those folks frankly don't even matter.[/quote]
This is correct. If you want great non-White writers, study Rumi, Hafez, Confucius, etc[/quote]

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