Course carnage at Harvard as more than 30 queer and Marxist classes get axed
Harvard: where you can spend a lot of money
and still get a shoddy education
It appears the student body at Harvard is beginning to realize that classes focused on the queer agenda or racist Marxist indoctrination will not teach you much of substance and could even hurt your future career, and are thus increasingly not signing up for these courses.
This fall more than 30 such courses at Harvard have been cancelled, with the History and Literature department losing the most.
According to The Crimson, Hist-Lit Director of Studies Lauren Kaminsky said class offerings dropped from 19 to 13 classes after five lecturers either departed or chose to do something else. The canceled Hist-Lit courses include “British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa,” “Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture & Its Critics,” “Global Transgender Histories,” “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” “The Making of Race across Latin America,” and “Global Histories of Capitalism.”
The course description for “Global Transgender Histories” noted students “will become familiar with some of the global vocabulary of gender identities beyond the binary and will understand the historical impacts of phenomena such as racism, imperialism, and [the] medicalization on gender identities.” Students also would’ve “discovered” the diversity of “gender-variant people” via “religious texts, poetry, art, legal cases, travelogues, newspapers, films […] and oral histories.”
Class cancellations were also forced on the History of Art and Architecture and the Committee on the Study of Religion. College officials in all the departments claimed a variety of reasons for the cancellations, including the departure of professors due to job changes or medical reasons. While possibly a factor, it seems a more important one was attendence. Students were simply not signing up for these courses.
You see, Harvard in May 2022 instituted a new policy requiring students to sign up for courses during the previous semester, thus allowing departments time to gage interest in order to determine whether it pays to run the class at all. It appears that during the last two years the queer and radical DEI agenda of the left became very evident to all, and even more so in the spring when pro-Hamas leftist protesters rioted on campuses nationwide. When the Harvard student body had to choose what to take this fall — during those riots — it apparently decided that these courses were not only worthless, having them listed on their school record might actually make it harder for them to get jobs once they graduate.
Hardcore leftists and queers need not worry however. Apparently enough students at Harvard signed up for a whole range of other leftwing indoctrination classes that have not been cancelled, such as “Indigenous Literatures of the Other-than-Human,” “Queer Archives”, “Queer Interventions in Latinx Studies,” and”Queering Education.”
Still the user’s manual at Harvard
The course description for the last is especially illuminating, revealing the political and utterly corrupt indoctrination goals of our academic education community.
By the end of the module, students should be able to: (1) Talk comfortably about queer history and how it can inform our understanding of schools and schooling; (2) identify specific strategies that educators at various levels might use to support students in negotiating gender and sexuality norms; (3) identify tools that schools can use to build positive, nurturing environments, which open up the possibilities for complex gender and sexual identity development; and (4) analyze and evaluate a variety of school practices, curricula, programs, and policies that seek to support healthy gender and sexual identity development for U.S. children and adolescents.
Let me translate what this Harvard education course is really all about: Hey, teachers, you want to groom kids into weird sex, for your own sexual gratification? We’ll show you how!
That a lot of courses like this are getting cancelled is a good trend. That a so-called “elite” college like Harvard is still teaching other perverse and harmful courses, such as the one above, tells us that the trend has not gone far enough. It also underlines the need for future employers to ask potential employees some hard questions about the kind of classes they took while at college. If I was hiring new teachers for an elementary school, I would very specifically not to hire any person who took the class above.
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Harvard: where you can spend a lot of money
and still get a shoddy education
It appears the student body at Harvard is beginning to realize that classes focused on the queer agenda or racist Marxist indoctrination will not teach you much of substance and could even hurt your future career, and are thus increasingly not signing up for these courses.
This fall more than 30 such courses at Harvard have been cancelled, with the History and Literature department losing the most.
According to The Crimson, Hist-Lit Director of Studies Lauren Kaminsky said class offerings dropped from 19 to 13 classes after five lecturers either departed or chose to do something else. The canceled Hist-Lit courses include “British Soft Power from Shakespeare to Dua Lipa,” “Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture & Its Critics,” “Global Transgender Histories,” “Indigenous Genders and Sexualities in North America,” “The Making of Race across Latin America,” and “Global Histories of Capitalism.”
The course description for “Global Transgender Histories” noted students “will become familiar with some of the global vocabulary of gender identities beyond the binary and will understand the historical impacts of phenomena such as racism, imperialism, and [the] medicalization on gender identities.” Students also would’ve “discovered” the diversity of “gender-variant people” via “religious texts, poetry, art, legal cases, travelogues, newspapers, films […] and oral histories.”
Class cancellations were also forced on the History of Art and Architecture and the Committee on the Study of Religion. College officials in all the departments claimed a variety of reasons for the cancellations, including the departure of professors due to job changes or medical reasons. While possibly a factor, it seems a more important one was attendence. Students were simply not signing up for these courses.
You see, Harvard in May 2022 instituted a new policy requiring students to sign up for courses during the previous semester, thus allowing departments time to gage interest in order to determine whether it pays to run the class at all. It appears that during the last two years the queer and radical DEI agenda of the left became very evident to all, and even more so in the spring when pro-Hamas leftist protesters rioted on campuses nationwide. When the Harvard student body had to choose what to take this fall — during those riots — it apparently decided that these courses were not only worthless, having them listed on their school record might actually make it harder for them to get jobs once they graduate.
Hardcore leftists and queers need not worry however. Apparently enough students at Harvard signed up for a whole range of other leftwing indoctrination classes that have not been cancelled, such as “Indigenous Literatures of the Other-than-Human,” “Queer Archives”, “Queer Interventions in Latinx Studies,” and”Queering Education.”
Still the user’s manual at Harvard
The course description for the last is especially illuminating, revealing the political and utterly corrupt indoctrination goals of our academic education community.
By the end of the module, students should be able to: (1) Talk comfortably about queer history and how it can inform our understanding of schools and schooling; (2) identify specific strategies that educators at various levels might use to support students in negotiating gender and sexuality norms; (3) identify tools that schools can use to build positive, nurturing environments, which open up the possibilities for complex gender and sexual identity development; and (4) analyze and evaluate a variety of school practices, curricula, programs, and policies that seek to support healthy gender and sexual identity development for U.S. children and adolescents.
Let me translate what this Harvard education course is really all about: Hey, teachers, you want to groom kids into weird sex, for your own sexual gratification? We’ll show you how!
That a lot of courses like this are getting cancelled is a good trend. That a so-called “elite” college like Harvard is still teaching other perverse and harmful courses, such as the one above, tells us that the trend has not gone far enough. It also underlines the need for future employers to ask potential employees some hard questions about the kind of classes they took while at college. If I was hiring new teachers for an elementary school, I would very specifically not to hire any person who took the class above.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
Directly related:
THE PROBLEM WITH SOME JEWS: POLITICAL TREASON
“Some Jews are just so intellectual, so schooled, so argumentative and so authoritative in their opinions that they become a threat to not only the status quo, and that is not always a bad thing. But in their intellectualizing, in their rhetoric, in their cold practicality and reasoning they become a great threat to the civilization that they say they are attempting to morally guide and save.
Let’s take a look at a few of them, two Jews and one “on board with the program” oh so self-righteous white bread elitist gentile.”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/the-problem-with-some-jews
Even if one is in agreement with the DEI and LGBTQ agenda, it would be very difficult to prove that any of these courses would provide a real benefit to the students once they graduate.
On the contrary, the time and effort these courses would require of their students would be detrimental to the time and energies the students would spend in courses that are actually useful.
In an August 2020 press Q&A a reporter asked Trump about a crazy conspiracy theory “at the crux of the theory is this belief that you are secretly saving the world from satanic pedophiles”
Trump replied “is that supposed to be a bad thing?”
Like many conspiracy theories we’re finding out it was true.
https://t.ly/phPMp
“Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual can believe them.” – Eric Blair
Sure is different than when they just wanted to recruit you. I was like “WTF”? I’m just a science club guy! AND I went on to have >40 year relationships with my fav women… :)
This HAS to be babylonian…
ONCE you are at the end of this class.
What are you going to use anything learned,
FOR?
If you don’t HAVE to pass this course,
Then all you have wasted is time & money.
It’s another tragic case of the people — even at Harvard! — failing to be progressive enough for their own good. The solution is surely to make such classes *mandatory*.
After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By increased work quotas.
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
— Bertolt Brecht, Die Losung
The real problem is not the DEI offerings. It’s that, too often, they are mandatory classes.
When students have choices, only a small minority will select them.