{"id":59813,"date":"2017-05-11T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59813"},"modified":"2017-05-11T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T22:14:48","slug":"a-new-battleground-over-political-correctness-duke-divinity-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59813","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) A New Battleground Over Political Correctness: Duke Divinity School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The email read like one that could easily be circulating at any American college in 2017: a professor at Duke Divinity School urged her colleagues to attend a two-day session on how to recognize and combat racism.<\/p>\n<p>The diversity program \u201cprovides foundational training in understanding historical and institutional racism,\u201d said the Feb. 6 email by Anathea Portier-Young, an associate professor of the Old Testament, who called it \u201ctransformative, powerful and life-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But to Paul Griffiths, a professor of Catholic theology, the March course was something else: akin to the retraining of intellectuals by \u201cbureaucrats and apparatchiks\u201d in totalitarian societies, he wrote in an email to his fellow professors that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/09\/education\/a-new-battleground-over-political-correctness-duke-divinity-school.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The email read like one that could easily be circulating at any American college in 2017: a professor at Duke Divinity School urged her colleagues to attend a two-day session on how to recognize and combat racism. The diversity program<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59813\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,168,177,151,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-seminary-theological-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59819,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59813\/revisions\/59819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}