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June Wagner's avatar

I’m vomiting in my mouth. Where do you find this stuff? It seems to get worse with every passing day. Thanks for continuing to share this info. I feel like having a protest but I fear there’d only be 2 of us there! 🥴

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Rob Feil's avatar

Three, there’d be three of us there.

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Barbara's avatar

You have no idea how many times I have wanted to protest at UNC & Duke especially but also at the state capital. I spoke at a voter integrity hearing in Raleigh and watched the “Rev” Barbour being treated like visiting royalty. He’s a racist that teaches victimization instead of empowerment. JMHO

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JRK's avatar

I am currently in the M.Arch program and this is basically all the "Advanced Architectural Theory" course is - semantic mulch postmodern garbage masquerading as serious academic inquiry.

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Dr. Owen Anderson's avatar

Thanks for that inside perspective, I was wondering what it looked like from within.

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Rob Feil's avatar

As previously stated, this is more communist gobbledygook to embed DEI into everything.

While I could easily flip some of those statements to be broader, it’s all loaded.

But that’s why I started having my resistance statements if my assignments ever ask me about impacts or any of that nonsense.

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Dr. Owen Anderson's avatar

So they’ll ask you about impact expecting a DEI answer?

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Rob Feil's avatar

Directly quoting an assignment document:

“Reflect on your design and discuss if the following factors were considered in your design decisions. Provide evidence by describing what you did in one or more of the above UML diagrams to incorporate the factor(s). If the factor is not relevant to problem specification provided, then describe how it is not relevant.

- Consideration of economic factors

- Consideration of public health, safety, and welfare

- Consideration of global, cultural, & social factors

- Consideration of environmental factors “

While not directly DEI, it comes real close, and isn’t quite on subject. This is a software enterprise course.

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c Anderson's avatar

Design Justice IS DEI revamped. From Wikipedia, “Design Justice seeks to redistribute power and promote inclusivity within systems, environments, and products.” It is a movement of the they/them pronouns propaganda machine. They are radicalized and highly organized. ASU needs to be rid of that ASAP! https://designjustice.mitpress.mit.edu

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Dr. Owen Anderson's avatar

Looks like another thing I’ll be spreading the word about. Thanks for the link.

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c Anderson's avatar

Reading the articles and realizing Portland has a branch of Design Justice was a real eye opener. Thanks for drawing attention to this.

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Richard Fulmer's avatar

The left isn’t interested in decolonization; they want to recolonize the world to advance their ideas and interests.

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JRK's avatar

You are correct, they colonizers of thought. I am using this in an essay rebuttal this weekend. The topic happens to be nationalism... in an "architectural theory" course. I'm going to throw it right back in their face that you can't be "decolonizing" and be anti-Nationalist.

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