In the latest insanity from liberal education, according to The College Fix, “Loyola University Maryland’s Department of English recently announced its commitment to ‘anti-racism,’ claiming literature promotes ‘white supremacy.”
The department of English proclaims on its website, “Literature and the literary canons have been used to validate “white supremacy.”
It’s clear that DEI and Woke ideology remain the dominant ideology at Loyola.
The department is even considering renaming the website.
The department also echoes Woke slogans like “black lives matter,” “racism is based in white supremacy,” and “confronting racism requires that we actively facilitate conversations about it in the classroom.”
This department is biased and has an anti-Western civilization bent in that it views Western and English literature as inherently bad.
The English department even made the absurd promise to “acknowledge the centrality of whiteness in the history and evolution of literary canons.”
The department pledges to “hire a professor of African American literature and include more authors of color in their curriculum. It will examine all classes and commit to “making anti-racist teaching central in each one.”
This sounds more like a struggle session than anything else.
They went even further than that, absurdly saying they would “avoid centering the experiences of white students” in the classroom by “interrogating the presumed invisibility of whiteness in the classroom and the concept of the ‘universal reader’ as always being white and male.”
Loyola University in Maryland was founded by the Jesuits, a Catholic order.
According to The College Fix, “The school’s English department sees that Jesuit mission as a “commitment to serving an urban, majority-Black city with a history of racial injustice.”
Even a Professor at Emory called out this Woke direction the school’s English department is headed in.
Prof. Bauerlein rightly argued, “The position of the Loyola department gives neat evidence for why English has become such a marginal discipline.”
He acknowledged, “If the third-rate profs have their way, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Eliot will step back so that inferior works by people of the favored identity are included. This is a losing tactic.”
Indeed, the point of the Woke Left is to demoralize America and its culture, which has made it great.
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