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UNC course says WWII was 'Japan's attempt to roll back Euro-American colonialism'
The University of North Carolina is offering a class called "Global Whiteness," which involves student presentations on Trump and interracial hookups on campus.
Campus Reform obtained the fall 2021 syllabus, covers the concept of race since the 19th century, but also contains what appears to be revisionist narratives of American history, specifically World War II.
Specifically, the syllabus appears to place blame for the Pacific Theater on America and the West. The course overview describes World War II in the Pacific as "the first global attack on white Anglo-American hegemony" and "Japan's attempt to roll back Euro-American colonialism."
A previous iteration of the course, taught in 2019, included a class session titled "Nasty, Angry White People," according to an earlier syllabus reviewed by Campus Reform.
Students in the course will be required to give a presentation based on one of 32 listed topics. One of the topics is, "How is Trump racist?"
Other student presenters will cover race in the context of their classmates' romantic lives through the topics, "Black/White hooking up at UNC" and "White/Asian hooking up at UNC." The list of topics also includes "White Trash," "1619 Project," and "Should White people pay reparations for slavery?"
Professor Mark Driscoll, who teaches the course, writes a robust defense of free speech in his syllabus:
"I want all of you to feel safe to express yourself regardless of your point of view, background, physiological makeup or the general popularity or mass media appeal of your stance...you have a right and a duty to find out alternative truths about the themes that we will discuss. Moreover, we need to pledge to each other (this includes me to you) complete respect for each others' viewpoints and the willingness to tell each other when a comment or incident makes us uncomfortable."
In his faculty biography, Driscoll characterizes 1945 as "when the Allied Powers dismantled Japan’s extensive empire."
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18036
***************************************Colorado High School Students Stage Walkout To Protest Mask Mandate
Students and parents all over Douglas County, Colorado took to the streets Wednesday morning to protest a countywide school mask mandate.
The organized walkout reportedly occurred around 9:30 a.m., just two days after the county's health department issued a mask order requiring all staff and students from preschool to 12th grade to wear masks (via The Denver Channel).
Some of the loudest voices were heard at Thunder Ridge High School.
"These people agree with me. They hate masks, and I do too," said Thunder Ridge student Cole Bradley of the students behind him.
"I believe that masks, they’ve been going from mostly two years now, this is going to be the third year of my high school career that’s compromised. I want a normal high school career there. If you are scared you could stay home," said student Austin Knapp.
Thunder Ridge High School students were joined by Ranch View Middle School students and their parents.
"There’s enough parents, and there’s enough scientific data to show otherwise, that this is just not a necessary option that they have to take, and there are enough students that feel the same way," said parent Amy Ellis.
Around the same time, students at Legend High School took to the streets.
Colorado Community Media reporter Jessica Gibbs posted several videos and pictures of the protests to Twitter
Gibbs also wrote that a student told her less than half of students were actually obeying the mandate in the classroom.
As the United Kingdom and other places around the world begin to understand the lack of real data or science behind masking students and drop their school masking requirements, counties in the U.S. continue to double down. It's going to take direct action and, yes, civil disobedience like this, as well as voting pro-masking school board members out of office at the earliest opportunity, to turn this thing around. This is definitely a good start.
The Douglas County School District responded to the walkout with the following statement:
Douglas County Schools tells Denver7 "The Douglas County School District continues to balance the challenges of the ongoing COVID pandemic. We will follow the recent public health order issued by the Tri-County Health Department, which requires all students and staff in preschool through twelfth-grade to wear a mask while inside school buildings. Additionally, we will work with our families and staff members who cannot tolerate a mask due to medical or mental health reasons. Our goal is to keep our students and staff in the classroom for in-person learning.
Meanwhile, Tri-County Health, which issued the mandate, insisted that masks "provide protection and prevent the spread of disease which allows students to remain in school where they learn best."
On a related note, Douglas County commissioners voted Wednesday to split with Tri-County Health Department and form its own health department, largely because of its refusal to allow counties to opt-out of its health orders (via The Denver Post).
Tri-County Health had agreed to let counties opt out of its health orders last November when Douglas County threatened to leave the agency, which also covers Arapahoe and Adams counties, over COVID-19 directives, including mask mandates and business closures.
On Monday, the agency not only eliminated the opt-out but ordered all school districts in the three counties it oversees to require masks for all staff and students 2 years old and older in indoor settings. That prompted Douglas County leaders to accuse Tri-County, which serves more than 1.5 million people, of unilaterally violating its agreement with the conservative county.
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“That was a condition precedent for us remaining with Tri-County Health — that a measure of local control regarding public health orders would be retained by the counties,” Commissioner Abe Laydon said Wednesday.
Commissioner Lora Thomas said the opt-out agreement was supposed to account for the fact that not all counties in Colorado are affected by COVID-19 in the same way, and that local officials should be able to tailor their responses to the pandemic based on local coronavirus data.
Of special note:
"County staff presented data during the virtual meeting, attended by nearly 300 people at one point, that showed Douglas County’s five hospitals have no pediatric hospitalizations and that only one person under 18 has died in the county throughout the entire pandemic," the outlet reported.
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University Will Fire Employees Who Do Not Receive COVID-19 Vaccine
Across the country, schools and universities are rolling out COVID-19 vaccine mandates as a response to the spreading Delta variant. However, some universities are taking precautions a step further by implementing rather absurd COVID-19 measures, such as indoor-double mask mandates and shelter-in-place rules for fully vaccinated students, as Guy reported. And now, we have a prestigious university axing faculty and staff who refuse to get the vaccine.
Duke University announced this week that employees who do not obtain the COVID-19 vaccine will be terminated from their job in the coming weeks.
In a statement issued by the university on Sunday, the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine now constitutes a condition of employment at Duke. "All faculty and staff members, regardless of work location, must receive and show documentation of their completed COVID-19 vaccination by 10 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2021," the statement reads.
Between now and the October deadline, deans and vice presidents will be given a list of unvaccinated faculty and staff within their department. These figureheads are to ensure their unvaccinated faculty understand the new policy and ramifications for not complying.
After the October 1 deadline, those who still haven't gotten the shot will be subject to a Final Written Warning and placed on leave. They will have seven days to obtain either the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine or the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. If the individual chooses not to get vaccinated, they will be fired once the seven-day period has expired.
Those who do comply during the seven-day administrative leave period will have up to six weeks to provide documentation that they are fully vaccinated. If the second dose is not administered within the six-week period, they will be terminated.
While faculty and staff are permitted to apply for a religious exemption from the vaccine, those who are approved for an exemption must partake in weekly testing and continued masking.
In the joint statement, Provost Sally Kornbluth and Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh said "Vaccination is the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones from serious illness related to COVID-19, and it is only way we will bring an end to this pandemic. We are grateful to the thousands in our community who have already taken this step, and we want to take make every effort to support those who have not yet gotten vaccinated."
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