‘ Why It’s OK to remain Fat ‘ author teaches’ Philosophy of Oppression ‘ group
A University of Alabama course looks at the” Philosophy of Oppression”, which includes “racism, sexism, and sizism”.
The program description for Philosophy 430 also says individuals will” consider issues of duty” for “victims of oppression…to resist the oppressive situation they face”.
Part of this antagonism to “oppression” may incorporate” legal defiance”. These are some of the “questions” that will be considered, according to the course outline.
What does it mean to be a person of a certain contest, or to be a man or woman are additional issues that need to be answered?
The program is not already listed this semester, but, Professor Rekha Nath taught it in the most current trimester.
She immediately expressed curiosity on Jan. 13 in responding to questions about defining sizism, otherwise spelled as” sizeism”,” legal disobedience”, and what the teacher wanted students to learn in the group. But, after The College Fix provided more information about the content as requested, Nath stopped responding.
Nath, the author of a book called” Why It’s OK to Be Fat”, did not respond to two follow-up emails in the past two weeks.
According to her university profile, Professor Nath” specializes in social and political philosophy”, publishing on “global fairness, equality, and duty”.
The school’s internet producer Deidre Simmons did not respond to requests for comment.
In an email to Simmons half, The Fix requested a copy of the curriculum, additional details about how this program fits into the university’s overall mission, and questions about potential legal issues involving identity classes like this. In the past few months, she has not responded to the calls that were sent.
In 2024, the state passed a law banning “diversity, capital, and participation” practices and protecting people from people using sex-segregated places like bathrooms. The regulations also restricted the training of “divisive ideas” in K-12.
In contacted responses to The Fix, a social scientist who has studied DEI issues at red state institutions, including the University of Alabama, criticized the program.
According to Professor Scott Yenor, DEI can enter universities from” top” positions, such as officials, or “bottom up” from faculty positions, whose fields are rife with critical principles.
” Alabama’s DEI ban concerns, mostly top-down administrative matters”, the Boise State University professor said, referencing” trainings, DEI statements, hiring practices, admission methods”.
He claimed that this theory course is an example of a skill that is wracked or infested with wokeness.
According to Yenor,” the only way to really get at these classes is to go after applications that don’t align with the University’s objective as the government understands it.”
He claimed that the government could end these types of classes by “revisiting the goal” of the college to” not only to positively state what it is about, but also to express what it is not about.”
Different universities in Republican hideouts also offer classes focused on racial, sexual, or additional identity politics.
For instance, a program on geographic information systems at Purdue University in Indiana uses critical race theory.
The program, as lately reported by The Fix,” will provide students with a critical review of the position power, lifestyle, justice and injustice, and oppression have played in the practice and history of cartography”.
Students will also learn about” critical theories of race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, class, ability, colonialism, and the State” and how “maps can expose and resist oppression and inequality”.
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