quote from wiki re the point of cultural studies generally:
One of [its] goals... is to raise awareness and combat social power imbalances and dominant ideology.
Crozier's quote about African-American, Latino and Southeast Asian studies:
"We still are at these racial fault lines, and we want someone who will be able to think critically about those racial fault lines and how do we help heal...
Then this,
On the flip side, Karen Crozier is implicitly saying that black teachers are incapable of teaching European history.
exactly. so i guess they should fire every black history teacher (except for African-American, Latino and Southeast Asian studies).
Just state your direct issue with what he said.
Somehow we got history confused with cultural studies, i guess? anyway, bolded inference from spungo isn't cogent, and it also doesn't follow deductively from what the protestors were saying.
There's no good reason to think that people who can think critically about racial fault lines cannot think critically in general. There's no good reason to think that this is what the protestors think, or that this is sensible inference to make from what was said.
Deductively, we can't get to the point that black people aren't qualified to teach classes that aren't african-american, latino or southeast asian studies based on what the protestors were saying either.
Crozier stated if white then not qualified. So we can also say, if qualified then not white. Stupid, but valid.
it seems spungo and waggy improperly negate the antecedent (if non-white then x - where does that come from? can't do that) or make improper inferences based on the statements made by the protestors.
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