Outrageous RW lie of the day: U of California system doesn't require US history for students

[Igel]

5. I seem to not see the lie.

UC has some funny terminology.

Once when I was on a campus committee the undergrads were agitating for a "world cultures" requirement. It confused us, but it seemed not unreasonable.

The proposal that came out of it was to include various of the culture classes in the cluster requirements. There were survey classes in the departments that taught French, Italian, Slavic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, Semitic languages, and numerous other departments. There were ethnomusicology courses, music courses proper, history courses, literature and art courses.

The proposal provoked outrage and we were called insensitive racists. We went back to being confused.

"World cultures" was the word used. But the requirement as they explained it was to require students to take a course in US Latino, African-American, US Pacific Islander, or Native American culture. (I think there was another. European groups didn't count. They had to think twice about Arab-American "culture," but Jewish certainly didn't count.) The courses pretty much had to be taught by an ethnic studies program. We were grateful that the academic year was ending so there wasn't time to work on it. We had trouble suppressing the urge to tell them that "world" did not have the meaning that they thought it did.

Apparently they got something like this.