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Hungary To Remove Gender Studies From Universities, Says Courses Based On 'Ideology Rather Than Science'



Gender outrage warriors will have to be taught grievances from somewhere else in Hungary, as the country’s government has decided to remove gender studies programs from state-run universities.

A government official said the programs are based on “ideology rather than science,” and should not be taught in higher education, according to the Hungarian political magazine Heti Világgazdaság and a translation in the left-leaning Pluralist and other outlets. Another government spokesman told Breitbart News that the degrees were of no use to students looking for work.

“There is no economic rationale for studies such as these,” he said, as the degree does not “furnish students with skills that can be readily and directly converted on the labour market." He added that the programs aren’t sustainable and "take away valuable resources from other programs, deteriorating the economic stability of universities.”

To be fair, just two universities in the country even offer the program at the graduate level, and only 13 students total enrolled in them this year.

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LOL! Shots fired!

That'll help with employment numbers, too.

But, but, who's going to write all the grant proposals?

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“There is no economic rationale for studies such as these,” he said, as the degree does not “furnish students with skills that can be readily and directly converted on the labour market." He added that the programs aren’t sustainable and "take away valuable resources from other programs, deteriorating the economic stability of universities.”

Can't say it any better than that.

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“There is no economic rationale for studies such as these,” he said, as the degree does not “furnish students with skills that can be readily and directly converted on the labour market." He added that the programs aren’t sustainable and "take away valuable resources from other programs, deteriorating the economic stability of universities.”

Can't say it any better than that.

It is referred to as “rational thought process”. Sadly, colleges in the US that incorporate such retarded classes as “gender studies” don’t subscribe to rational anything.

Excellent. Hungary needs it's college graduates to be contributing to it's country's needs, which are largely economic and internal infrastructure. Want to get into esoteric humanities subjects, go find a private university to go study in. The same should be done here with American universities.

Isn’t it kind of amazing that the countries of the former Soviet-/Eastern-bloc are the ones taking the hardest stance against “politically correct” ideologies and are the strongest of pro-nationalists; while those of the West are the ones rushing headlong into national suicide adopting SJW bullshit and admitting individuals that want to eradicate Western/European culture.

I guess those that suffered under communistic totalitarianism remember what it was like and don’t want to have any part of it now. Too bad Western Europeans don't learn from their Eastern European cousins.

Good. College gender studies belong in dorm rooms, the back seats of cars and frat houses.



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I thought about posting this yesterday but wasn't sure if it was a done deal or a proposal. If there are private colleges or universities there, people are free to go and pay for it their own damned selves.

Hungary, IIRC, also gave a big fat unequivocal NO to Middle Eastern "refugees."

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Too bad Western Europeans don't learn from their Eastern European cousins.

Unfortunately I think it will be the other way round. Most Eastern Europeans either lived under communism or had parents or grandparents who did. Nothing teaches history as well as personal experience. Once those personal experiences and stories are no longer told, the Eastern European youth will become susceptable to the same SJW/socialist/progressive lies that are taught to American children today.

In the meantime, maybe I will emigrate to Hungary!

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“There is no economic rationale for studies such as these,” he said, as the degree does not “furnish students with skills that can be readily and directly converted on the labour market." He added that the programs aren’t sustainable and "take away valuable resources from other programs, deteriorating the economic stability of universities.”

Sound, rational thinking. This country could use a whole bunch of it about now.

In 1990 I took my two boys to E Europe so they could see for themselves what life had recently been like under Communism.
In Poland one man told us “Don’t think it’s just Communism that is bad, socialism is too.”
Then we went to W Berlin where we met an economist who told us “I’m afraid this will give socialism a bad name”.

Not bad enough, obviously. Too bad we didn’t get more E European refugees here as we did after the Hungarian uprising of 1956.

Peter Schramm was one, a boy at the time his family fled Hungary. His father told him “We are Americans, just born in the wrong place.” Peter became a famous political scientist.

Meanwhile in the United States:

Colleges Offer Courses On "Queering" Children & The Bible

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...ering-children-bible

This school year, students across the country will attend courses on “Queering the Bible,” “Queering Childhood,” “Queering Theology,” and similar topics.

Students at Pomona College in Claremont, California, for instance, will have the opportunity to enroll in a brand new course titled “Queering Childhood,” which will examine “the figure of the Child and how this figuration is used by politics, law, and medicine to justify continued cultural investment in reproductive heteronormativity and productive ablebodiedness.”

The course description explains that students will examine the childhoods of “queer and crip children,” as well as “childhoods against which the figure of the Child is articulated,” with reference to work related to “gender studies, childhood studies, disability studies, and queer theory.”

Colleges are not only attempting to “queer” childhood, they are teaching students to “queer” Christianity and religion in general, as well.

This fall, Eugene Lang College will offer a course titled "Queering and Decolonizing Theology,” where students will explore topics such as “the sexual ethics and ritualization found in the S&M community,” and “transgender Christs.”

“Christian theology is often depicted as a violent colonial force standing in particular opposition to LGBTQI lives. However, over the last 30 years people of faith, activists, and theorists alike have rediscovered what is queer within Christianity, uncovered what is religious within secular queer communities, and used postcolonial theory to decolonize lived religious practices and theologies,” the course description asserts.

According to the college, the course “explores secular philosophies of queer and postcolonial theory as well as their critical and constructive application to religion,” focusing on topics like “the sexual ethics and ritualization found in the S&M community, transgender Christs, and the mestiza (or mixed) cultures of Latin America.”

Similarly, students at Harvard Divinity School will be able to attend a course on "Queer Theologies, Queer Religions" this fall, which will explore the “project of ‘queer theology’” and how it relates to “larger aspirations of queer religion or spirituality in America.”

In this course, students will begin by “sampling the efforts to revise traditional Christian theologies in order to accept or affirm same-sex loves.” After that, they will move on to examining “forgotten possibilities in historical engagements between advocates of homosexual rights and established religious bodies (chiefly churches and synagogues).”

“We will consider the boundaries between queer theology and queer theory or between it and other political theologies,” the course description explains. “We will test the boundaries of ‘Christianity’ while considering the varied forms of queer religion outside familiar religious institutions—in spirituality or spiritualism, in magic or neo-paganism, in erotic asceticism.”

Swarthmore College students, meanwhile, will survey “queer and trans* readings of biblical texts” during a course titled "Queering the Bible,” which will introduce them to “the complexity of constructions of sex, gender, and identity in one of the most influential literary works produced in ancient times.”

“By reading the Bible with the methods of queer and trans* theoretical approaches,” the description promises, “this class destabilizes long held assumptions about what the [B]ible—and religion—says about gender and sexuality.”

The University of San Francisco is also getting into the act with a course on "Christian Feminist Theology" that aims to “develop an understanding of how feminist scholarship provides one fruitful means towards reappropriation of central Christian insights about God.”

The course will facilitate “critical reflection upon the experience of God, and insights from feminist thought,” according to the description.

In a similar vein, students enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania’s "Gender, Sexuality, and Religion” course “will read religion through a variety of feminist and queer theory lenses- exploring the key characteristics of diverse feminist analyses of religion, as well as limits of specific feminist approaches.”

“In this course we will learn about women’s and men’s rituals, social roles, and mythologies in specific religious traditions,” the course description explains. “We will also look at the central significance of gender to the field of religious studies generally, with particular attention to non-binary genders.”

To that end, the course will address questions such as “How important are the gender differences in deciding social roles, ritual activities, and spiritual vocations?” and “How does gender intersect with nationality, language, and politics?”

Campus Reform reached out to each of the schools mentioned in this report for additional comment on the courses in question, and is currently awaiting responses. This article will be updated if and when any of them provide a statement.

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Hungary is giving the Soros-funded Central European University hell. And good on Hungary for that, too.

WOW! You have a PhD in gender studies! Congratulations on that achievement. Oh, and I will have fries with my Big Mac.

gender studies

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