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    Outrageous Yale Students: Studying White, Male Writers Creates 'Hostile Culture'

    A petition from students at Yale University calls on the English department to "decolonize" the curriculum by dropping required "Major English Poets" courses.

    The petition says that teaching the works of white, male poets like Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton and William Wordsworth "creates a culture that is hostile to students of color."

    "It is your responsibility as educators to listen to student voices. We have spoken. We are speaking. Pay attention," the petition says.

    On "Fox and Friends Weekend," Aryssa Damron, a Yale student who just took the "Major English Poets" courses, said she is outraged by the petition.

    "If they're that worried about Shakespeare being white, then they're not really engaging with the texts to begin with," Damron said.

    She pointed out that Yale has some of the most diverse English major offerings, including a course called "Race and Gender in American Literature," which was the most popular English course last year.

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    Send them on a one way ticket to Saudi Arabia to study Islamic poets

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    There's that generation again that wants to have everything their way or they will throw baby fits.

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    This *IS* the CULTURE progressive lefties have created. They have no one to blame but themselves. What on earth are these brainwashed lefties going to do when they enter the real world?

    As Michael Savage would say....liberalism (progressivism) is a mental disorder. And these kids certainly have a disorder....a real, certified, brain disorder.

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    It is possible that colonial and racist attitudes crept into British literature eventually, including the classics, but I doubt that that was the case at the time of at least the first three out of those five. We've all seen depictions of the British relating to Africans in their colonies.

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