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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a serious “literature” education only values English langauge writers who have been dead for at least 150 years. Nothing else is of value.  That’s not studying literature[/quote]

This response is a huge part of the problem.  We live in the USA.  [b]Our culture, politics, customs, etc. are products of the Western World.  There are undoubtedly fantastic works of literature in China and India (for example) that have been hugely influential in Asia.  But regardless of your feelings, they’re not relevant here.[/b]

Furthermore, stating that authors like Shakespeare and Dickens “have value” does not mean they are the ONLY authors who have value.  What are you even talking about?[/quote]

What century are you writing from? How did you figure out time travel? [/quote]

The US is a western society.[/quote]

And a Christian nation.[/quote]
LOL no.[/quote]

You can laugh but I agree with the PP (and with atheist Richard Dawkins) that countries like the UK and US *are* nations with heavy socially Christian traditions.
Obviously it isn’t the officially religion, but even with fewer churchgoers and professed “believers” than there were 30 years ago, it is still a nation based on Christian norms.

Also the PP who dismissed concerns as “mad just because the emphasis is no longer on western, capitalist view as a positive”—or something like that…yes, I’d say that’s a pretty huge problem when American society is built on the free market and the liberal free-thinking philosophy of seeking truth and exploring and debating ideas in search of it as pretty much the basis of our shared American values and what we all want to promote in higher education.
So yes—when we see that our American institutions of “higher learning” have been ideologically captured by individuals who are pushing an anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-western dogma onto students and passing it off as enlightenment, it is very concerning.

Incidentally, this is not exactly surprising given that ex-KGB agents literally spelled out this exact plan when being interviewed by Phil Donahue in the late 1970s. But I think many boomers and GenXers dismissed that as laughable—and just didn’t buy that they could pull that off HERE on our own soil. It sounded like a crazy conspiracist plot, honestly.

Until suddenly it isn’t.[/quote]

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