University course on ecological justice from an LGBTQ perspective kicks off
This isn't the first, yet it's still surprising how the climate madness is mixing with gender ideology in American universities.
Cornell University in the US is launching a course on ecological justice with a focus on feminist, queer and trans perspectives. The title of the course will be exactly that: ‘Ecological Justice: Feminist, queer and trans perspectives’, and according to the description
will explore how these „marginalized” groups have „led environmental movements and ecological theorizing around the world” and draw on „traditions of ecofeminism, racial justice, queer and trans ecology, and disability theory” to show how these perspectives have „transformed environmental ethics”.
The course description also claims that the subject is taught in the context of ethics theory, and as they write:
„Historically, people marginalised by race, gender, sexuality, disability and poverty have borne the brunt of environmental degradation”.
Cornell also offers other courses from an LGBTQ+ perspective. For example, the university is launching a „Queer Classics” course in the fall of 2024, Zero Hedge reported.
Nothing new
While it should be utterly shocking that a university could launch such a course, it’s not that surprising at all, in light of what has transpired in recent years.
„Shakespeare is no longer required, neither is Mozart, but literature departments are focusing on climate and poverty”, Heather Mac Donald wrote years ago. According to the American conservative author, universities, held hostage by neoliberal ideology, are beginning to repudiate the foundations of Western civilisation. „What’s happening at the University of California at Los Angeles’s (UCLA) English department is a tragedy on a Shakespearean scale,” said Heather Mac Donald in her op-ed entitled ‘Who Killed the Liberal Arts’.
Mac Donald at the time was commenting on the sad fact that students at the prestigious American university no longer had to read Shakespeare to get a bachelor’s degree in English literature, but were required instead to take courses in, for example, Gender studies, Critical theory and Postcolonial studies.
Heather Mac Donald says this practice is spreading at an alarming rate.
„That movement seeks to infuse the humanities curriculum with the characteristic academic traits of our time: narcissism, an obsession with victimhood, and a relentless determination to reduce the stunning complexity of the past to identity and class politics,”
she wrote.
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