Editor's Note: This article is from Woke Wars, an email-only newsletter from The Sentinel published six days per week to cover the cultural insurgency of wokeness.
The impractical courses offered in the bloated American university system have long provoked mockery and ridicule from sane people outside of those progressive bubbles.
There are countless jokes and jabs that float around in our culture about the blue-haired feminist who earns a lesbian dance theory degree and accrues student loans toward that end, only to find herself working at a coffee shop since her degree has no value.
Many such cases unfortunately.
But these schools are truly attempting to outdo themselves.
Just take the example of the University of Maryland, which is offering a course called “Introduction to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness, and Their Intersections.”
That means any young person at the school can learn next spring about “the relationship between fatness and blackness,” which is apparently a “social justice issue.”
They will learn about obesity through a cultural Marxist framework and consider “fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability.”
Remember that administrators at the University of Maryland shamelessly charge in-state students over $11,000 per year and out-of-state students a whopping $39,000 per year.
Student debt well spent.
We can make fun of this development as much as we would like.
But the reality is that these sorts of progressive bubbles not only harm the students who burn their money and their educational opportunities on this nonsense, but the rest of society as well, since many students are not provided with the skills needed to impact the workforce.
That is why the war for our education system is worthwhile.
If we can stop woke absurdity and indoctrination, then we can truly help our economy, bless our nation, and prevent the wholesale brainwashing of the next generation.
