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Yeah, no kidding. "Phobic" means a fear or aversion to something. Showing a picture of islam's founder is the opposite of islamaphobic.

• Wowfunhappy 4y ago
  The problem is that many interpretations of Islam (aiui) strictly forbid showing depictions of Muhammad. So I think the argument would be he's trying to force Muslims out of his class, or some such. (To be clear, I still think an art history professor should be able to show whatever artwork they want.)
• zaphirplane 4y ago
  It something that offends a very large group of people with clear reasoning even if you disagree with the reasoning. I don’t understand why people find the need to poke that. I kind of understand society can’t ban images of say owls because say the bla people find it offensive But we do find it distasteful to refer to certain groups of people with names that THEY find offensive even when the majority of the globe don’t really get the offensive association
  • StanislavPetrov 4y ago
    >It something that offends a very large group of people with clear reasoning even if you disagree with the reasoning. I don’t understand why people find the need to poke that. This wasn't some sort of general education seminar that went out of its way to bring up a controversial issue. It was an Art History class. To suggest that an art history professor should be somehow constrained in showing historical art , to adults, in a college class because some people might find it offensive is frankly absurd. The fact that the college would choose to expel the art historian who showed this historical art in an art class rather than those who were offended because of their primitive religious beliefs is a perfect encapsulation of the intellectual rot that has infected "Western society".
    • zaphirplane 4y ago
      I’m pretty sure if I randomly picked a decade over the last 4000 years and a culture the odds are fairly low to land on that. It’s disingenuous to suggest this is important to art class because simply there is nothing notable about the drawing, what is notable is the subject and the controversy. At best an average art lecturer wants to make statements about censorship they can do it on their dime in their own medium. the worst is, let’s leave that.
      • toomim 4y ago
        You didn't read the article. It explains exactly why the professor chose this piece and how it fit into his class lesson. You don't need to speculate like this.
• sasattack 4y ago
  How exactly do you still say things like this in 2022. You know like words have a contextual meaning based on how they're used by people?
  • toomim 4y ago
    Oh, so like 2+2=5 now, because enough of people have repeated that phrase often enough that it's gained its own contextual meaning and thus is now a truth we should accept without questioning?
    • sasattack 4y ago
      You're still saying like really absurd things that people on the Internet have been saying for 20 Years. We're not talking about mathematics. we're talking about language something that's extremely Malleable. has always changed will always change and will always have people like you upset about it . And by the way we just decided as a group that 1 = a single unit and doesn't mean 2.5 units