{"id":2114,"date":"2020-01-29T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2020-01-29T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:32:07","slug":"yale-will-eliminate-a-beloved-introductory-art-class-for-being-too-white-male-and-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"Yale Will Eliminate a Beloved Introductory Art Class for Being Too White, Male, and Western"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;It&#8217;s good to include more perspectives and to ensure that a liberal arts education is not excessively focused on Europe. But diversity by addition is vastly preferable to diversity by subtraction. When a university eliminates an introductory art class because a tiny number of ideologues object to the whiteness and maleness of it all, it feels like they are declining to teach history because some people don&#8217;t like what happened. The West&#8217;s outsized influence on the events of the last several centuries may very well be problematic, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it isn&#8217;t real.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/27\/yale-university-art-department-western-white-male-problematic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/27\/yale-university-art-department-western-white-male-problematic\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good to include more perspectives and to ensure that a liberal arts education is not excessively focused on Europe. But diversity by addition is vastly preferable to diversity by subtraction. When a university eliminates an introductory art class because a tiny number of ideologues object to the whiteness and maleness of it all, it feels like they are declining to teach history because some people don&#8217;t like what happened. The West&#8217;s outsized influence on the events of the last several centuries may very well be problematic, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it isn&#8217;t real.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,369,368],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-male","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}