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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: What’s Wrong with California’s Ethnic Studies Mandate?
Description: https://youtu.be/Xh0xF5hACkw
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Sam Weaver and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent California ethnic studies mandate. They evaluate the ideological nature of the curriculum and its assault on knowledge, the philosophical ideas that made it possible, and why it must be opposed intellectually.
Among the topics covered:
How ethnic studies emerged from an activist assault on the idea of objective truth;
Evidence that the proposed curriculum is non-objective;
How lessons on "narratives" encourage prejudice among students;
The egalitarian roots of the curriculum and its elevation of the primitive over...