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Read Replies (1) | Respond to The dumbed down Democrat racist spirit of the KKK has infected our educational institutions. It started at Berkeley and has spread like a virus. Print The Onion and not from the oldest college daily newspaper in the United States and at one of the nation's most elite Ivy League schools : once touted to be one of Yale College’s quintessential classes . But this change is the latest response to student uneasiness over an idealized Western “canon” — a product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male cadre of artists .Avoid your eyes, according to Yale. Restoration work being done on Rembrandt's "Night Watch" via The Boston Globe So that's it, apparently: the great masterpieces recognized as such by the entire world for generations are now tainted by their supposed "whiteness" and must be censored by the Robespierre-like mob of the "woke". continues :will seek to question the idea of Western art itself — a marked difference from the course’s focus at its inception. Art history department chair and the course’s instructor Tim Barringer told the News that he plans to demonstrate that a class about the history of art does not just mean Western art. Rather, when there are so many other regions, genres and traditions — all “equally deserving of study” — putting European art on a pedestal is “problematic,” he said. Yale campus. Image via Yale News How long before the beautiful centuries-old campus buildings themselves will be "discovered" as part of the Western tradition of architecture? Will they survive the decades to come as the "purge" grows ever fiercer and more anti-intellectual? zerohedge.com
