On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.”
They were protesting Stanford University’s introductory humanities program known as “Wes…
On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.”
They were protesting Stanford University’s introductory humanities program known as “Western Culture.” For Jackson and the protesters, the problem was its lack of “diversity.” The faculty and administration raced to appease the protesters, and “Western Culture” was formally replaced with “Cultures, Ideas, and Values.”
The new program included works on race, class, and gender and works by ethnic minority and women authors. Western culture gave way to multi-culture. The study of Western civilization succumbed to the Left’s new dogma, multiculturalism.
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How far you want to go back? The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962.
"How far you want to go back? The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962."
Good point, although, unless Walter Cronkite or the Plain Dealer was telling us about it, one could effectively stick one's head in sand. Social media has enlarged and quickened the pace of today's crises and can also rally those provocateurs in a moment's notice.
‘Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got to Go’
https://intellectualtakeout.org/2019/06/hey-hey-ho-ho-western-civ-has-got-to-go/
On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson and around 500 protesters marched down Palm Drive, Stanford University’s grand main entrance, chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.”
They were protesting Stanford University’s introductory humanities program known as “Western Culture.” For Jackson and the protesters, the problem was its lack of “diversity.” The faculty and administration raced to appease the protesters, and “Western Culture” was formally replaced with “Cultures, Ideas, and Values.”
The new program included works on race, class, and gender and works by ethnic minority and women authors. Western culture gave way to multi-culture. The study of Western civilization succumbed to the Left’s new dogma, multiculturalism.
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How far you want to go back? The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962.
and whats your point?
Point Being
"How far you want to go back? The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962."
This s Not a new phenomena
Good point, although, unless Walter Cronkite or the Plain Dealer was telling us about it, one could effectively stick one's head in sand. Social media has enlarged and quickened the pace of today's crises and can also rally those provocateurs in a moment's notice.
For Better Or Worse That Little Silicon Chip is changing EVERYTHING.