Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
Cambridge to 'decolonise' English literature
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education...d=tmg_share_tw


Yyyyyyeah, see I'm of the mind that we can learn NEW things and discuss NEW things by reading authors from different cultures and places, but still classics are classic for reasons and there's no need to kick authors out of a curriculum based solely on their race.



@Batman your thoughts?
OK so this is what bothers me in this birds 'open letter'

What we can no longer ignore, however, is the fact that the curriculum, taken as a whole, risks perpetuating institutional racism.
Why not just broach the subject, the very first paragraph throws out 'institutional racism' that is similar to that tranny model who was sacked from the shampoo advert for saying 'all white people were racist' only to backtrack and say that what she meant was that 'all white people are institutionally racist' or some shit like that, by whacking the word 'institutional' in front of racism it appears that does not constitute saying that anyone is purposely racist, just that they are racist but its not their fault.

She also asks for
The inclusion of two or more postcolonial and BME authors on every exam paper.
This is the main part that boils my piss, its like when the BBC made that new rule that every comedy panel show now needs to have at least one female comedian (even though I don't like the bloke fair play to Jason Manford for refusing to go on anymore BBC shows after that)

What this girl is saying is that BME authors need to be shoe horned into every single exam paper regardless of how good they are or regardless of the fact that there could be hundreds of white authors more deserving of it, the BME authors need to get in purely based on their race (is that not encouraging institutional racism and discrimination?)

End of the day the as you said the classics are classics for a reason, because they are the best in their genres, not because the author was white, black, yellow or green.

There is an old saying, never judge a book by its cover, this would completely go against that.