![]() It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the supernatural, but also deals with religious epistemology, asks and seeks to answer the question of revelation. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. ![]() "Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. > Theology is the study of religious belief (whatever your ludicrously literally translation might say). However, I counseled the students to take the video down from the public class server, delete it, stop talking about it, and let it fade could have turned into a big, big issue, and the student would have gotten into a great deal of trouble, as much as I, and others, would have sympathized with his feelings.Īnyway, again, that teacher seems crazy, but the students appears to be an obnoxious racist ass. The other teacher is almost universally disliked, a sentiment I share. Recently, some of my students used their phones to secretly film another teacher having an embarassing/stressful argument with his class. That definitely crosses all kinds of moral/ethical boundaries, probably conflicts with the academic policies and regulations of the college, and may be illegal.Īs a high school teacher, I'm well aware of these privacy issues. It's a bit rich.įurthermore, whatever you think of the teacher's statements, or the students political/personal views, I would say that the greater-ot at least equal-offense here is that the students recorded his teacher and other students without their consent, and then publicized the whole affair, including naming the teacher. It annoys me that he presents himself as a kind of rational, level-headed, "innocent," when clearly his work to discredit this class and teacher took great planning, intent, and effort. There are some great examples of people calling out some of the ridiculous rhetoric that passes for education, but I would say this is more a concerted attempt draw attention to himself, and promulgate his view of the world. However, the students clearly has a political agenda of his own, as well as a history of controversy. As somebody with a degree from a US university, I would say that he probably represents the rare extreme of a common set of more general ideas.if that makes sense. They show race in the making, and show how race is something we perform. In doing so, the assailants are demonstrating how race is a social construct that people make through their actions. Instead of asking what the boys’ reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack, we should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way. "While it’s tempting to see the reported ethnicity of the boys suspected in the assault as complicating the story and raising questions about whether the assault should be thought of as racist, I look at it through a different lens. "Two 17-year-old boys accused of harassing four African-American middle schoolgirls - using racial slurs and urinating on one of the victims - are facing charges Police say the boys are of Indian descent. Here, for example, is a columnist in the New York Times, America's leading paper, similar in status to our The Times (added emphasis): I suspect they are indeed typical and representative of what is taught in "whiteness studies", and maybe similar is going on in the other "grievance studies" areas.īut it's definitely not just isolated pockets, it is already going mainstream. Interesting question, and I don't really know. Do do you think these clips are typical or representative of what is taught?
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