In Conversation with David Frum: Decolonization efforts on university campuses
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Published 2024-02-01
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All Comments (21)
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I’m glad my history department wasn’t infected by these trends when I was going to University.
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There was a panel-worshop at a recent pedagogical day at my college on "decolozining stem courses." Apparently mathematics is racist. These characters won't settle for just a handful of disciplines- they want it all.
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Listening to the Concordia statement gave me heartburn. If they really care about unlearning colonism they should give up all their modern ways of life, laptops, smartphones, modern housing, anything made from plastic, etc cause it all came from "western ways of knowing". They should also give up their property to indigenous people and move out of the country because they are on indigenous land according to them.
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I graduated from Concordia (Sir George Williams) University in 1971. I’m glad I cancelled my financial contribution.
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"[De-colonization is] a necessary and ongoing process..." Who decided it was necessary? Why is it necessary? It's quite a big assertion to make, and yet they don't even bother to explain it.
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really enjoy your show. This is a very small complaint. The movement in your back ground is very distracting.
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PS How is learning about our history, decolonizing us, unless you feel what we will learn will drive us away?
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These young people don’t know what they are doing, like the previous generations
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Frum is priceless and scathing.
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In terms of substance DeSantis is a horrible analogy. I am hoping it was meant strictly to showcase the difficulty of legislating education, but in terms of secularism FL's governor is himself waging a war on truth.
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Lord help Concordia as it sinks into irrelevance. I Cannot believe the quote was written by an actual person. Every cliché in the book!
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I am so glad I am not a student at Concordia.
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Here is a great quote BY 5:20: UNLEARN... IS UNPROGRAM...NOT DUMB DOWN BUT ENLIGHTEN...
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I can remember when these trends began in the 90's. "Hey hey, ho ho: Western Civ has got to go." I though surely there was a via media, a way to be inclusive without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Apparently not. Depressing.
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Just a comment about humanities vs social sciences: I once watched an interview with a Nobel laureate in physics, David Gross, who said that he respected the arts but not the social sciences very much, due to the latter being pretty bogus and permeated by political correctness. The arts are more about expressing individual human emotions without the pomposity and pretense of explaining all of society.
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Looking at Concordia from a historical viewpoint, it was a Christian university--half Catholic (Loyola) and half non-Catholic (YMCA). But maybe the modern Concordia is rootless?
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6; how is learning about the ways of the rest of the world and ourselves, some how subjugating us to a secular formation, when studying one of the multiple we study???
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That was indeed a very insightful conversation. Thank you.
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IF YOU NEED ME TO GO FURTHER LET ME KNOW...
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If there is more measured, insightful, and thought-provoking conversation on the internet, then this viewer is not aware of it. Well done, Hub Canada.
