PEAK WOKE: Howard University Removes Classics Dept.

This isn't the Babylon Bee.  Howard U., the flagship school in the HBCU system, is removing the Classics department.  That's the department where you go to learn things like Western Culture, Greek Myths, Shakespeare ... things like that.

In a development that goes against the current clownish and reactionary zeitgeist, Cornel West and Jeremy Tate have spoken out.  They are brave souls:

In criticizing the move, West and Tate nail the essence of what is going on in schule:

“This is the result of a massive failure across the nation in ‘schooling,’ which is now nothing more than the acquisition of skills, the acquisition of labels and the acquisition of jargon.”

They don't know the half of it.  Not only is school jargon filled virtue signaling, it's a world where everyone goes through the Shirley Jackson "The Lottery" style motions.  At the end of the process the student is intellectually stoned to death.

Today's students, particularly in the Humanities, learn things like American History, which consists of:

1. Founding of the USA on the backs of slaves (1619 Project).
2. Slavery.
3. Jim Crow.
4. Today, the era of White Supremacy.

Think I'm kidding?  Ask an 11th grader about American History.

“Academia’s continual campaign to disregard or neglect the classics is a sign of spiritual decay, moral decline and a deep intellectual narrowness running amok in American culture.”

West and Tate know that only feelings matter.  What they call 'intellectual narrowness' is manifested in our young people believing that posting what they 'feel' about current events on Twitter counts as intense and deep intellectual scholarship.

Woodrow Wilson's dream about the purpose of school has come true:

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