Yale Students Demand Removal of White Authors from Curriculum

[apples]

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/06/09/yale-students-demand-removal-white-authors-curriculum/

Students at Yale University are demanding radical changes that would remove white male authors from the English department?s curriculum.

According to a petition submitted to faculty, Yale students are demanding that a course on ?Major English Poets? be removed from the curriculum because it lacks diversity.

?It is unacceptable that a Yale student considering studying English literature might read only white male authors. A year spent around a seminar table where the literary contributions of women, people of color, and queer folk are absent actively harms all students, regardless of their identity,? the students write in the petition.

The ?Major English Poets? requirement for Yale English majors focuses on the work of poets Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot. Despite this lineup lacking the diversity that the students

They are winning. The next phase is underway with this. Next all white people must be removed. 

[Paladin2016]

Barbarians at the gates.

This is not to suggest there is little or no value in studying the works of poets other than white males, but to dismiss the writers listed is intellectual suicide.

[PzLdr]

I guess it's easier for them if the book they're reading for the course is a comic book.  :

[jafo2010]

All part of the voluntary dumbing down of America.  Next, for diversity purposes, it will be mandatory to study and learn Gullah!  For those of you that do not know Gullah, it is a HUGE part of the Afro-American heritage for language in the USA.

Let me give you a clue, if you know the word that begins with "F" ............and ends in "UCK, you already know every third word in Gullah.  And I am not referring to the word "firetruck"!