Re:Astonishing regularity in learning rate among college stu...
by tptacek on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:05PM
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It's especially odd to have him on since he's not a classics professor.
Re:Astonishing regularity in learning rate among college stu...
by rayiner on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:15AM
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It’s a cross-cutting issue. If academics have been seized by the belief that white subjects must be watered down to be accessible to “people of color,” it doesn’t really matter whether we’re talking about computer science or the classics specifically.
My surprise is that NPR—which thinks that minorities can’t be expected to adhere to white people’s rules like not burning down cities—would have on a heretic like McWhorter.
> JOHN MCWHORTER: Thanks for having me.
> SIMON: Josh Billings - I don't have to tell you, a classics professor who's the department's head of undergraduate studies - says, quote, "having new perspectives in the field will make the field better." What would be wrong with that?
> MCWHORTER: Nothing at all, but I don't want to hear it until I know that it's not a way of saying through the back door that we want to have more Black students, and it's racist to expect them to learn Latin and Greek.