Columbia Student traumatizing by reading about white peole

[Crissi]

And reading more into it, I speculate that the focus on euro classes is because America was most heavily influenced by European thinking and governing.

[purebalance]

If the class was general, yeah I'd include the major non western powers like Persia and Egypt and China. However if she's in a specific time period and area class, there's no reason to include other areas

Best part is this girl I work with said at University of Maryland you're actually forced to take "ethnic" classes to complete a degree like things akin to African Hair Weaving(I doubt it's that far and she was exaggerating). Should she be able to say she's triggered then too?

[Kraenen]

This is a job for
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RaceLift

Julius Cesar he was a black dude from namibia.

Some people actually think Jesus was black, lol

[Daws]

Someone get this student a safe space loaded with books written by non whites already.

[purebalance]

So just like Europe.

So just like everyone. History frowns on the white man for winning. Plain and simple.

[Steve French]

So just like Europe.

Yes witch doctors in europe hack body parts of albino children for rituals.

[Deleted]

So just like Europe.

Yes but we also made HUGE technological advances at the same time + pushing arts and litterature.

[purebalance]

Some people actually think Jesus was black, lol

I had this discussion with someone the other day. He could have easily looked like what people think of in terms of Italians or Greeks. There are MANY Israelis that are white as hell. Jesus definitely did not have blue eyes though.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

So just like Europe.

In Europe they weren't marching through villages, raping women and children while their husband/father was forced to watch before killing all of them with machetes and leaving them to rot in the sun. In Rwanda, millions died like that. It wasn't much different in Sudan, and what happened recently in Sierra Leone is just unbelievable. Of course, now we ALSO have Boko Haram in Nigeria (who Al'Qaida say "go too far").

If reading about European history was enough to traumatize this woman (and some of the stuff that happened in Europe, especially in the first half of the 20th century, is harrowing) then maybe it is better for her that African history was not on the curriculum.

[purebalance]

Yes witch doctors in europe hack body parts of albino children for rituals.

Or people with AIDS having sex with virgins to cleanse the virus.

[Mistame]

Slavery?

Yep. As horrible as it was, if it weren't for slavery none of them would exist.

[Elba]

Yes witch doctors in europe hack body parts of albino children for rituals.

In Europe they weren't marching through villages, raping women and children while their husband/father was forced to watch before killing all of them with machetes and leaving them to rot in the sun. In Rwanda, millions died like that. It wasn't much different in Sudan, and what happened recently in Sierra Leone is just unbelievable. Of course, now we ALSO have Boko Haram in Nigeria (who Al'Qaida say "go too far").

Or people with AIDS having sex with virgins to cleanse the virus.

WW1? WW2? Colonization (read up on that one, white people are fucked up)?

/101010

[Deleted]

If the class was general, yeah I'd include the major non western powers like Persia and Egypt and China. However if she's in a specific time period and area class, there's no reason to include other areas

Lol those are all too white. Everything north of subsaharan africa has to check their priviledge.

[Notter]

If anything, she's being racist, saying learning about white people in history is traumatizing her.

gues what would they call a white guy not wanting to learn about black people's history?

[Osoroshii]

which requires students to take a series of six classes with a focus on the culture and history of Western, European civilization. Aya says this focus on the West was highly mentally stressful for her.

...what?

The history and culture of Western civilization seem just a bit more relevant to the modern world than say, ancient African tribal cultures. I'm not entirely sure what the hell she expected here other than perhaps a heartwarming (and completely false) tale about Zulu explorers discovering the Americas, founding the British monarchy, and charting the oceans of the world.

[Crissi]

Yes witch doctors in europe hack body parts of albino children for rituals.

To be fair, Europe also had a lot officers up people. Vlad the impaler, Lady Bathory, Marquis de Sade...

As for general people's: inquisition, Catholic vs Protestant conflicts, some of the battles for the Papacy...

[Elba]

Yes but we also made HUGE technological advances at the same time + pushing arts and litterature.

No science, culture, art outside Europe?

[Kraenen]

And reading more into it, I speculate that the focus on euro classes is because America was most heavily influenced by European thinking and governing.

This seems like one of those things that should be a priori obvious. You're in the US, of course you'd have a focus on the predecessors of America.

Not to say there shouldn't be world history classes. I loved things like Ancient Civilizations where we learned more about greece/rome and egypt, china, persia, arabia (this one would be particularly important these days) etc.

[Deleted]

No science, culture, art outside Europe?

If the young lady can only identify with black people she got the problem not the history class
and if she thinks history is about her eitherway.

[Elba]

If the young lady can only identify with black people she got the problem not the history class
and if she thinks history is about her eitherway.

Problem isn't white dudes. Problem is when only white dudes.