All the best things in the world seem to be racist nowadays, I want to be racist too, it’s so cool!
WTF at this point we should just start working on ways to filter out the Anglosphere, China-style.
The Jews resurrected Hebrew. We can resurrect Latin.
Latin sounds so [much better](https://youtu.be/lJq_l6Ihs2c). Besides that, if Europe is to be a superpower, we should export our own culture rather than import American garbage. A minore ad maius.
I hate it when easy bait is paywalled. Now I don’t know if they’re misinterpreting “we want to read other books too” as racism or if they found a crazy person and assumed that is what “woke” is.
All this time I spent learning that dead language was an exercise in racism? What does that make Old Church Slavonic?
It’s racist unless you teach that it was invented behind-the-scenes by American Black and Indigenous Women of Colour, and that white Europeans merely stole the glory.
At this point, word “racism” rapidly loses its meaning. Any time someone disagrees on any subject, racism can be invoked. Do not agree with certain religious practices? Racist. Do not like how certain language sounds? Also racist. You refuse to date someone, because of their personality or any other reason? If they happen to have skin tone different from yours, it is racist too. Refuse to read a book or watch a film because you think it will be boring, but writer happens to have other skin tone or ethnicity than you, even if you are not aware about author looks and background whatsoever? Someone out in the internet will call you racist for sure. And after that, real crimes, that have clear racist intents are disregarded, because of boys who cry wolf all the time.
These politicians need a simple lesson. Stop feeding the trolls. If a small group of people make a dumb remark just ignore it, stop making stupid responses. Just gives more attention and drags it
For context, TheAtlantic is on of the highest quality journals, pretty balanced politically too, until Trump
So the problem isn’t really teaching Latin and Greek but having them as requirement to begin with?
*”Ancient languages have come under fire of late in the US, where Princeton University caused a stir in the summer by announcing that it was removing Greek and Latin requirements for classics majors to combat what it saw as discrimination.”*
If they’re all still gonna study the old stuff while at university removing the pre-requisite seems sensible…
Bait 😴😴😴
cmon now who is actually saying that outside radlibs on twitter
And for the people who get all railed up this guy just claims there would be people calling latin racist, he doesn’t quote anyone on that or give a concrete example. Hes just a guy thinking latin is important and making up an imaginary situation in which he has the high ground
most of those stories on woke culture are just lazy journalism in my opinion to get some easy clikcks. it’s probarbly just based on some random people on twitter
This minister is in charge of Education. If he really wanted to do something about Latin, he could. But he doesn’t. It is just about appealing to far-right voters for the next presidential election.
In fact, in France, we don’t have enough Latin teachers.
Such claims would be mindboggling, if such claims were actually being made.
Hello everyone, I’m French. This is Jean-Michel Blanquer, our Education minister. Don’t worry, he just loves having the media’s attention. I think he has something like 2% of approval rate with teachers.
Step 1: Call something “woke”
Step 2: Don’t elaborate
Step 3: wait for all the fools to come defend you because they read “woke” and don’t bother reading reality (which shows the claim is bullshit or so incredibly insignificant)
Regardless, the latest brilliant idea of our minister of education consists in basically weaponizing the revival of teaching of Latin and Greek as an ‘antidote’ to ‘le wokisme’, which is twisted af.
Am I a racist if I am learning it as a Romanian?
J-M. Blanquet is a joke. These last months he is going full populism against what he called “wokism”, every issue in France is caused by this ideology according to him
Claims noone of public interest has raised, but okay. Let’s comment every claim on earth I guess.
Made up, non issue, by culture war grifters looking to replicate whats happened in america
For context, and as someone who did classics, there is a definite woke mentality in many scholars and departments. They spent a lot of their time in essence condemning the Ancient World ( mostly Greece and Rome) for various -Ists/Isms and blaming this for casting the Other (borrowing from thinkers like Edward Siad) as the oppressed class. A good introduction to how the Classics has transformed from being a study of the past (the origins of rational thought, European law, democracy) into being apologitics is by the noted Historian Victor Davis Hanson, “Who killed Homer”.
Europe need to ignore all data the US puts out. We’ve become retarded.
Claims by *who* though? Is this actually a popular position held by anyone of any authority?
I was just having a Latin class 3h ago lol
Teaching latin is racist
– no one ever
Keep the insane toxic American identity politics out of Europe. Studying the classics and Latin has nothing to do with being white. It has everything to do with culture, which should be promoted.
At first sight, I thought he was holding a scythe…
Folks am proud to say I failed in Racism twice during my Liceo classico..
Wokeness = Moratur ad calcem.
CRT in action.
everything I dislike is racist, you know it’s true /s
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All the best things in the world seem to be racist nowadays, I want to be racist too, it’s so cool!
WTF at this point we should just start working on ways to filter out the Anglosphere, China-style.
The Jews resurrected Hebrew. We can resurrect Latin.
Latin sounds so [much better](https://youtu.be/lJq_l6Ihs2c). Besides that, if Europe is to be a superpower, we should export our own culture rather than import American garbage. A minore ad maius.
I hate it when easy bait is paywalled. Now I don’t know if they’re misinterpreting “we want to read other books too” as racism or if they found a crazy person and assumed that is what “woke” is.
All this time I spent learning that dead language was an exercise in racism? What does that make Old Church Slavonic?
It’s racist unless you teach that it was invented behind-the-scenes by American Black and Indigenous Women of Colour, and that white Europeans merely stole the glory.
At this point, word “racism” rapidly loses its meaning. Any time someone disagrees on any subject, racism can be invoked. Do not agree with certain religious practices? Racist. Do not like how certain language sounds? Also racist. You refuse to date someone, because of their personality or any other reason? If they happen to have skin tone different from yours, it is racist too. Refuse to read a book or watch a film because you think it will be boring, but writer happens to have other skin tone or ethnicity than you, even if you are not aware about author looks and background whatsoever? Someone out in the internet will call you racist for sure. And after that, real crimes, that have clear racist intents are disregarded, because of boys who cry wolf all the time.
These politicians need a simple lesson. Stop feeding the trolls. If a small group of people make a dumb remark just ignore it, stop making stupid responses. Just gives more attention and drags it
Who said latin was racist? 🤔
Literally a made up non issue.
Oh wow, this is really starting to happen in the US https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/princeton-classics-major-latin-greek/619110/
For context, TheAtlantic is on of the highest quality journals, pretty balanced politically too, until Trump
So the problem isn’t really teaching Latin and Greek but having them as requirement to begin with?
*”Ancient languages have come under fire of late in the US, where Princeton University caused a stir in the summer by announcing that it was removing Greek and Latin requirements for classics majors to combat what it saw as discrimination.”*
If they’re all still gonna study the old stuff while at university removing the pre-requisite seems sensible…
Bait 😴😴😴
cmon now who is actually saying that outside radlibs on twitter
Fighting windmills
Here is a free article for this: https://hitechwiki.com/high-school-jean-michel-blanquer-wants-to-strengthen-the-teaching-of-latin/
And for the people who get all railed up this guy just claims there would be people calling latin racist, he doesn’t quote anyone on that or give a concrete example. Hes just a guy thinking latin is important and making up an imaginary situation in which he has the high ground
most of those stories on woke culture are just lazy journalism in my opinion to get some easy clikcks. it’s probarbly just based on some random people on twitter
This minister is in charge of Education. If he really wanted to do something about Latin, he could. But he doesn’t. It is just about appealing to far-right voters for the next presidential election.
In fact, in France, we don’t have enough Latin teachers.
A French youtube made a very nice video about it (in french of course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKEB9xvuh0E
Such claims would be mindboggling, if such claims were actually being made.
Hello everyone, I’m French. This is Jean-Michel Blanquer, our Education minister. Don’t worry, he just loves having the media’s attention. I think he has something like 2% of approval rate with teachers.
Step 1: Call something “woke”
Step 2: Don’t elaborate
Step 3: wait for all the fools to come defend you because they read “woke” and don’t bother reading reality (which shows the claim is bullshit or so incredibly insignificant)
Step 4: Gain popularity
Edit: Here I’ll give it a try, Sesame Street is woke, go talk shit about Elmo….. Oh [for fuck sake, it’s already been done. Literally can’t parody reality cause it’s already a joke](http://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/12329/20210622/sesame-street-goes-woke-introduces-same-sex-couple-for-family-day-episode.htm)
Regardless, the latest brilliant idea of our minister of education consists in basically weaponizing the revival of teaching of Latin and Greek as an ‘antidote’ to ‘le wokisme’, which is twisted af.
Am I a racist if I am learning it as a Romanian?
J-M. Blanquet is a joke. These last months he is going full populism against what he called “wokism”, every issue in France is caused by this ideology according to him
Claims noone of public interest has raised, but okay. Let’s comment every claim on earth I guess.
Made up, non issue, by culture war grifters looking to replicate whats happened in america
For context, and as someone who did classics, there is a definite woke mentality in many scholars and departments. They spent a lot of their time in essence condemning the Ancient World ( mostly Greece and Rome) for various -Ists/Isms and blaming this for casting the Other (borrowing from thinkers like Edward Siad) as the oppressed class. A good introduction to how the Classics has transformed from being a study of the past (the origins of rational thought, European law, democracy) into being apologitics is by the noted Historian Victor Davis Hanson, “Who killed Homer”.
Europe need to ignore all data the US puts out. We’ve become retarded.
Claims by *who* though? Is this actually a popular position held by anyone of any authority?
I was just having a Latin class 3h ago lol
Teaching latin is racist
– no one ever
Keep the insane toxic American identity politics out of Europe. Studying the classics and Latin has nothing to do with being white. It has everything to do with culture, which should be promoted.
At first sight, I thought he was holding a scythe…
Folks am proud to say I failed in Racism twice during my Liceo classico..
Wokeness = Moratur ad calcem.
CRT in action.
everything I dislike is racist, you know it’s true /s
Got to get those sweet sweet Zemmour votes.