Anonymous wrote:Cool. Can’t wait for Harvard to hire a white person dressed up in black face who self named them selves a racial slur to teach the young adults of America.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ. It's like the elites want us to fall behind China.

In the mean time, continue paying tax for this.

Humanities instruction and funding comes from the institution and is notoriously cheaper than stem research and the mega structures that come from STEM initiatives.

But sure, you can argue we should defund cancer, Alzheimer’s, and HIV research if that floats your boat.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ. It's like the elites want us to fall behind China.

Do tell, how will 100 undergrad gender studies and polysci students taking this one semester elective cause the US to fall behind China? And fall behind them in what exactly?

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ. It's like the elites want us to fall behind China.

In the mean time, continue paying tax for this.

Get over it. Most college kids, including me during my 4 years, balance their class schedule with a couple of really hard classes, say Organic Chemistry and Advanced Algebra, a medium one that meets a requirement like sociology and an easy fun one. That is what these courses are for and all colleges offer a few dozen of them each semester.

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a fun class!

Wait until you see the new offerings at UVA and Vandy once they sign Trump's government control over universities letter. Likely classes will include: "Women as a Vessel for Birth" and "Genius of Adolph Hitler" and "Muslim conspiracies" and "Downfall of Feminism" among other catchy classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ. It's like the elites want us to fall behind China.

In the mean time, continue paying tax for this.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, in college we had classes like
“Are the French having better sex?”
“Impure Genes: the case for eugenics”
“The color blue”
And one I actually took
“Thug Networks: American Fraternities and Sororities”

I wanted to make the same point. There are also classes on Taylor Swift, Harry Potter and so many topics that on the surface seem complete frivolous but there could be academic merit to them.

Would I be inclined to take such a class? No and I am starting to really look askance at all this forcing of Drag Queens on our culture - I think there is more to it. That could also be a good college class to take - but academic freedom.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, in college we had classes like
“Are the French having better sex?”
“Impure Genes: the case for eugenics”
“The color blue”
And one I actually took
“Thug Networks: American Fraternities and Sororities”

I wanted to make the same point. There are also classes on Taylor Swift, Harry Potter and so many topics that on the surface seem complete frivolous but there could be academic merit to them.

Would I be inclined to take such a class? No and I am starting to really look askance at all this forcing of Drag Queens on our culture - I think there is more to it. That could also be a good college class to take - but academic freedom.

Anonymous wrote:Meh, in college we had classes like
“Are the French having better sex?”
“Impure Genes: the case for eugenics”
“The color blue”
And one I actually took
“Thug Networks: American Fraternities and Sororities”

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a fun class!

Wait until you see the new offerings at UVA and Vandy once they sign Trump's government control over universities letter. Likely classes will include: "Women as a Vessel for Birth" and "Genius of Adolph Hitler" and "Muslim conspiracies" and "Downfall of Feminism" among other catchy classes.

1. I don’t have any moral objection to the class, but I’d argue that “RuPaulitics” lacks academic merit. I wouldn’t want to pay $90k for my kid to take it. (FTR, I’d similarly object to “MMA and American Masculinity”). It’s fundamentally frivolous.

2. It’s politically provocative and unwise for Harvard at this time. Billions of $$$ on the line.

“I’d argue that “RuPaulitics” lacks academic merit.” that’s okay. You’re just wrong. It’s a topic of social politics related to trans people and cross dressing communities- that’s pretty nut and bolts anthropology.
“I wouldn’t want to pay $90k for my kid to take it.” No one asked for you to.
“It’s fundamentally frivolous.” Welcome to Sociology and Anthropology and Political Studies.
“It’s politically provocative and unwise for Harvard at this time.” It’s a professor. A qualified professor. Teaching a course they’re qualified to teach. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it is provocative.

You seem deeply allergic to education.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus Christ. It's like the elites want us to fall behind China.

In the mean time, continue paying tax for this.

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Khubchandani holds a BA in sociology and anthropology from Colgate University, an MA and PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University, and was the inaugural Embrey Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

They have the credentials and have real world experience about gender politics- seems like a great person to take a class from rather than some boring academic who hasn’t actually interacted with society beyond their theory.