Arresting black people for committing crimes is now apparently "racist"

[Loren Pechtel]

No, I was specifically referring to things which say "studies".

Okay, then. Finally someone admits that the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University is ridiculous!!

The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies offers one of the most comprehensive Jewish studies programs in North America for both graduate and undergraduate students. Courses are taught in Hebrew language and literature as well as Jewish history and culture from the ancient world through today. The department's internationally-renowned faculty includes specialists in Biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies, Second Temple Judaism (including Dead Sea Scrolls), Talmud and rabbinics, medieval and modern Jewish history, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy and thought, Jewish mysticism, modern Hebrew and Yiddish literatures, and the history, politics, and society of modern Israel...​

Doesn't sound like a useful degree for anything other than teaching in the field.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Okay, then. Finally someone admits that the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University is ridiculous!!

The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies offers one of the most comprehensive Jewish studies programs in North America for both graduate and undergraduate students. Courses are taught in Hebrew language and literature as well as Jewish history and culture from the ancient world through today. The department's internationally-renowned faculty includes specialists in Biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies, Second Temple Judaism (including Dead Sea Scrolls), Talmud and rabbinics, medieval and modern Jewish history, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy and thought, Jewish mysticism, modern Hebrew and Yiddish literatures, and the history, politics, and society of modern Israel...​

Doesn't sound like a useful degree for anything other than teaching in the field.

Talmud and rabbinics--don't care. Mysticism--don't care. Examining philosophy, thought, and literature has some little value. Being aware of language has utilitarian value. So some of these things have value, some don't, some have little value. That's more value than just teaching it. However, what you actually claimed was not that it had varying degrees of usefulness. You wrote that group X studies are "garbage."

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Doesn't sound like a useful degree for anything other than teaching in the field.

Talmud and rabbinics--don't care. Mysticism--don't care. Examining philosophy, thought, and literature has some little value. Being aware of language has utilitarian value. So some of these things have value, some don't, some have little value. That's more value than just teaching it. However, what you actually claimed was not that it had varying degrees of usefulness. You wrote that group X studies are "garbage."

All you're showing is that there are some reasonable courses lumped in with the garbage.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Talmud and rabbinics--don't care. Mysticism--don't care. Examining philosophy, thought, and literature has some little value. Being aware of language has utilitarian value. So some of these things have value, some don't, some have little value. That's more value than just teaching it. However, what you actually claimed was not that it had varying degrees of usefulness. You wrote that group X studies are "garbage."

All you're showing is that there are some reasonable courses lumped in with the garbage.

Reasonable courses lumped in with garbage or garbage lumped in with reasonable courses? but how do you infer the whole thing is garbage from that?

If half the paint on your car is yellow and the other half is black, would you call your car black?