Indiana University (IU) teaches students that they are essentially “oppressors” because of their race, gender or religion, documents reveal.
According to the school websitethe “Understanding Diversity in Pluralistic Societies” course invites students to consider “theories and models” to “increase understanding of diverse societies.”
The course “provides content about the differences and similarities in the experiences, needs, and beliefs of selected minority groups and their relationships with the majority group.”
It added: “Groups include, but are not limited to, people of color, women, homosexuals, lesbians, and bisexuals.”
Entrance sign to the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, Indiana. (Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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First reported by Free Beacon Class instructor Colleen Rose told her students, [their] Identity: One subordinate identity and one primary identity. ”
The Beacon obtained a table given to students to define specific groups. This diagram explains that a “subordinate group'' is subject to “social oppression'' by a “dominant group.'' These groups include “LGBTQ” people, “women” and religious and ethnic minorities.
“Heterosexual, white, able-bodied, Christian,” and “men” are the “dominant group” guilty of “social oppression.”
One student told the Beacon that he had to “make something up” to complete the activity.
One student told the Beacon that he had to “make something up” to complete the activity. (AP image)
“I am being punished through challenges regarding my identity as a person,” the student told the Beacon.
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The student went on to say, “It's very enriching for me to be forced to suppress my identity in a class where we talk about identity and are supposed to not suppress identities… I have to suppress myself because I'm thought of as a privileged, horrible human being who didn't grow up without food, and that's insane to me.”
This course is offered by IU's School of Social Work and fulfills the university's Social and Historical Studies credit requirement.
IU did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Other universities offer courses that explore intersectionality and racial, gender, and sexual identities.
Princeton University's spring semester course catalog includes the Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) program. (FOX News Photo/Joshua Commins)
For example, Fox News Digital previously reported on Princeton University's spring semester course catalog, which offers a Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) program. program It consists of classes that cover topics such as “sex work” and “queer spaces.” The course incorporates topics such as “erotic dance” and “pornography,” according to the university's online course listing.
