UC Berkeley Course: The Travesty of the Distortion of History Under the Guise of Academic Discipline

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4. No it isn't.

The goal of of the article is to show that the class is based on a denial of history and truth. They might as well be teaching a class on how the Holocaust never happened, or how the Japanese never bombed Pearl Harbor. That isn't an academic course. You know the saying, "You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts." Well that class is trying to create its own facts. It's based on a huge antisemitic lie. A narrative based on lies is not the academic or moral equal of a narrative based on evidence.