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Mark Marshall's avatar

Two excellent posts in one day. You are spoiling us, Rod!

Yet again, we are shown the need to reinvent education . . . which should be mostly a reassertion of traditional un-decolonized Western education. I've posted on that a bit in the past.

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Katja's avatar

Really, if they're so worried about "decolonizing" everything, they need to stop using English to try to boss everyone else around. Throwing in the occasional "indigenous" term merely smacks of cultural appropriation. While they're at it, why don't they move into houses like the "indigenous" people lived in before European settlers came to North America? Anything less will not be acceptable!

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Dave W's avatar

Right, they need to go whole hog. Half measures won't do. The university itself is a European import. Abolish it. Pretend the white man never set foot in North America and live exactly as the indigenous did 500 years ago.

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Katja's avatar

They also need to cease using these "Latin" letters. For the languages that were only oral before "colonization", only the gradual development of "authentic" glyphs will do, in order that every sound can be perfectly transcribed into writing, and not shoehorned in to European preconceived notions of what sound the letter "d" generally represents.

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Elaine's avatar

Every person of European descent should immediately fire themselves.

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Pariah's avatar

The whole endeavor smacks of cultural appropriation. I wonder how many indigenous people are involved in it. Isn't a large university kind of a western invention? Why try to make it something it isn't? If they want to "decolonize," though it can't be done, they should dismantle the whole university. Stop with the electricity and potable water already! Clocks don't run backwards, but if they're going to try or even pretend, do it for real.

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Sethu's avatar

The entire woke project is the white man's burden all over again.

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Dale Nelson's avatar

Clocks? Clocks!! They must go!

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Laura M's avatar

I would so watch that reality show!

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Sun Love Pax's avatar

Wow! Someone’s feeling spicy today. 😂.

Can’t blame you for saying what needs to be said though. Why not just go back to being Hunter-gatherers and see how long they survive w/o knowing how to hunt or build a shelter? Bet that gender studies degree will be super handy then? My guess is that most of them don’t even realize that food comes from farms these days.

This is their logical end result. Spot on, Katja.

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Tee Stoney's avatar

Guilt-ridden white people. So bored.

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Frau Katze's avatar

This nonsense is happening south of the border too. See a course called Afrochemistry: the Study of Black Life Matter, at Rice University. Search for Afrochemistry at The College Fix for more details.

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Matt Jamison's avatar

I googled it. Surely, I told myself, such a hilarious term must be satire. Right? Wrong.

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Randolph Carter's avatar

"Seems to me that if you’re going to study Ireland, you don’t have any choice but to be Eurocentric. Seems to me that the faculty of the School for Irish Studies had either better get busy finding the secret connection between the Iroquois and the Celts, or find other jobs."

As an Irish myth might say, "easy, that." Just go all in on St. Brendan and claim his adventures resulted in the Irish being counted among the First Nations people as indigenous. It clearly doesn't matter if you just make stuff up in this new paradigm, so their jobs should be safe as long as they lie for a living 🤦‍♂️

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Darrel Hoerle's avatar

Not to mention all that speculation in the 19th century that Native Americans were the 12 Lost Tribes of Israel. That would make the connection to Jewish Studies. (Fiddler on the Pueblo, anyone?)

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Randolph Carter's avatar

Since everything old is new again, let's put a revival of British Israelism on the board for 2024 😂

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Darrel Hoerle's avatar

Is buffalo meat kosher?

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Randolph Carter's avatar

I thought that was the word for pork, my 1.5 semesters of Japanese may be failing mehere

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Darrel Hoerle's avatar

No, pork in Japanese would be "buta-niku". I still remember that much, although my last visit there was eight years ago.

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Randolph Carter's avatar

Sumimasen (I remember that one!)

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Randolph Carter's avatar

So I just realized I thought you were replying to a comment on another article where I was talking about the show One Piece 😂

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Colin Chattan's avatar

I’m beginning to wonder if Alice Cooper’s “Ballad of Dwight Fry” (written, or published at least, in 1971) wasn’t just some weird, solipsistic rant, but prophetic of the deepening darkness descending on our whole society.

“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, “I will return into my house from whence I came out;" and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.”

I guess the good folks at Concordia can look forward to long, happy hours of indoctrination and struggle sessions.

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C. Bowdre's avatar

I’d say come teach in the South but then again he might run into those poor white Southerners for which he has nothing but contempt.

He’s a leftist that’s mad that the revolution kept going after the 90s.

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Bobby Lime's avatar

How so? What has he said along that line? I've never seen it.

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Bobby Lime's avatar

I thought he was smarter than that. Man, that is dumb. Haven't Jews learned that they're unlikely to find more zealous defenders anywhere else in the world than in the American South?

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C. Bowdre's avatar

I’ve heard him on a few podcasts to boot. On a gut level I just don’t like him. Politically on par with a 90s democrat, brags how smart he is and how stupid everyone else is, bragged about wealth and book sales, arrogantly atheist, etc.

I don’t wish ill and, sure, he’s right about some stuff but I’m not real worried about Mr Sad.

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Bobby Lime's avatar

I confess, I haven't watched him that much. But gee. That comment is thoroughly alienating.

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Kat D's avatar

Oh yes I was very disappointed when I read that. I had a favorable impression after he appeared on the Megyn Kelly show...

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Rob G's avatar

And here I thought my workplace was bad....Good Lord!

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JonF311's avatar

I see Rod has not lost his talent for finding ludicrous pictures to share. :)

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Gail Finke's avatar

That can't possibly be real.

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Bobby Lime's avatar

Which one? The pink wig? Oh yeah, that's real. Go to his YouTube channel. He can be hilarious, my favorite segments being the ones in which he denounces himself for various offenses against Wokeness, periodically thwacking his back with a flagellum.

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Mcferic's avatar

I bet some white girl bosses with blue hair wrote the entire thing, in consultation with two-spirit Chief Blue Beard of course.

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Kyle West's avatar

As a Lutheran (the original founders of all the Concordias), I’m thrilled that I have to apologize for this nonsense on behalf of my religious tradition. :P

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Kyle West's avatar

Never mind; different Concordia actually. They can have it!

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Sun Love Pax's avatar

Concordia has a campus in Ann Arbor, so I was very confused, but happy to learn it wasn’t the Lutherans going mental.

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Dale Nelson's avatar

No you don't, Kyle! Look this Montreal institution up on Wikipedia. I find nothing about a Lutheran connection.

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William Tighe's avatar

Actually, it wasn't Lutheran in its origin (in 1974); see:

https://www.concordia.ca/about/history.html

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Darrel Hoerle's avatar

Most of us from an LCMS background probably did a double-take when we saw that name "Concordia".

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Espe's avatar

I did ... and I’m not even Lutheran.

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David A Charlton's avatar

I expect that St. Olaf or another ELCA college/ university will be quick to follow suit.

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Dave W's avatar

Those poor besotted lefties. They need to decolonize their minds.

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Sethu's avatar

"finding the secret connection between the Iroquois and the Celts"

Hm, St. Brendan the Navigator? The legends say that he made it to America in the 6th century AD and made contact with the Native Americans. But somehow I don't think that's what these people have in mind.

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Rombald's avatar

Prince Madoc too!

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Hollis Brown's avatar

The Pedagogy of Self-Loathing.

I hope they try this out so we can check back in 5-10 years. will the students be living nomadically? will they follow the buffalo? the elk?

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Thomas F Davis's avatar

The caribou

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Sethu's avatar

Maybe they can follow the polar bear and see how that works out.

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Mark Hudson's avatar

There was a comma-splice in that "university document." My high school English teacher said he would give an instant F to any paper with a comma splice. The person who wrote that is an embarrassment to higher education.

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