Re:The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age
by michaelt on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:43AM
(#23601466)
Do you think there's any way universities can analyse living racist ideas, like a virologist analyses a deadly disease, handling it in an isolated lab and only through thick gloves?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age
by pjc50 on Monday June 22, 2020 @12:41PM
(#23602281)
They can and they do .. but it has to be done in the third person and not by advocates. Effectively this is what "post-colonial studies" is about.
The opportunity existed to put statues of racists behind glass, for example, away from their positions of public prominence and celebration. I don't think too many people would object to the university of Oxford having a statue of Cecil Rhodes that they kept in a cupboard.