On their website and by email, NARTH endorsed a delightful article on Townhall.com attacking essentially all multicultural studies college classes as evil. I’m not kidding, whoever wrote this article was rabid, foaming at the mouth and willing to go after anyone. Have a read:
There’s an emphasis on multicultural studies, and few campuses have escaped the disease — and it’s not yet Halloween. The title of a course taught to undergraduates in American studies at New York University, for example, is called “Intersections: Gender Race and Sexuality in U.S. History and Politics.” You might think this is a strange way to get at American history.
You’re so right NARTH and Townhall.com! History should only be delivered to us as it happens through the perspective of heterosexual (ok mostly heterosexual) white Christian men at Fox News.
I’m not sure if NARTH realizes how much of an ass this makes them look like, promoting an attack on the very notion of a cultural studies class. (The article at Townhall isn’t just about queer studies classes, the author goes after several ethnic groups too.)
Wow, that’s gunna make it uncomfortable for NARTH Chairman of the Board and UC Davis Professor Benjamin Kaufman next time he runs into the ladies of Women and Gender Studies in the cafeteria.
One wonders what NARTH would say about Jewish physics. I’m referring to Einstein, of course (although he was a secular Jew).
2005 is the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Einstein’s five papers that resulted in a revolution in several aspects of physics–special relativity, brownian motion (which gave rise to the theory of the atom) and the photo-electric effect (which provided more evidence for quantum physics) . And, ten years later, Einstein’s paper on general relativity provided an explanation for anomolies in Newton’s theory about gravity.
Multi-cultural? Heck, yes.
You need to realize: NARTH is a religious operation, and should be reviewed as such. There is no “science” there. Why do I say that? Science tries to describe what is. NARTH on the other hand puts out what they believe should be. There is a significant difference, one that is often overlooked.
We’re not even American and have no problem with children learning about Jefferson.The whole truth that is.
Beautiful, time-surpassing words — from a slave owner regardless…
Primetime did a television article on twin girls growing up in Bakersfield as white supremacists.
They are homeschooled and the textbooks used in their education do not go past the forties and fifties when much accomplishment attributed to women and other ethnic groups weren’t represented.
These girls play musical instruments and have recorded songs glorifying ‘the white race’.
These girls are adolescent, blond and blue eyed and very pretty.
I don’t see how they’ll get into a university or pass any history tests if their education was whittled down to this.
I consider this child abuse-for parents to constrain their children in this way. When the real world confronts these children, the results might even be deadly. It’s already happened many times before.
I’ve mentioned to other school boards about balking at gay inclusive clubs or education and citing religious reasons.
I told them they wouldn’t stop their teaching out of texts from 1934, so why is a 2,000 year old standard about gay people still in effect in this century, especially while gay people are present in their school as students or faculty?
Any school that wasn’t teaching every single fact and option to their students to prepare them for as many aspects of life and learning as possible wouldn’t be considered right, or a school worth attending doing such a thing.
So, no extremely integrated aspect of humanity such as gay people can’t be excised as if they didn’t exist.
Only in the interests of hate and/or arrogance, would anyone expect a school to never educate on cultural or gender issues and differences that effect everyone.
After reading the article on Townhall.com, I thought to myself, “Isn’t college when you’re supposed to question things you were taught?” That comes under that critical thinking stuff.
Apparently the author of the article wants to spend, by her reckoning $40,000 per year, in tuition to have her son/daughter never question anything and not learn much.
Is it possible to home school college students? 😉
Smith College, the elite school that once was only for women, and still is, sort of, has a different problem. About two-dozen women who arrived as female have become male, more or less. The Financial Times reports that some of the more traditional “girls in pearls” on campus think the new “guys” should transfer to a co-ed college. Smith has long been “gay friendly,” but now that girls have become “boys,” Smithies joke that the school motto is “Queer in a year or your money back.” It’s not a joke, and it costs $37,000 a year.
My favorite part of the article. It speaks for itself…