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There really should be more diversity in their course offerings:

How about a course on The History of Matzoh Ball Soup?

Via National Review:

The University of Kentucky is offering a course titled “Taco Literacy: Public Advocacy and Mexican Food in the U.S. South ” where students will examine the social and racial issues surrounding tacos.

Or, as the course’s website puts it, “how food literacies situate different spaces, identities, and forms of knowledge.” “This class allows our students to explore the issues of immigration, inequality, workers, intercultural communication, and literacy through the prism of food,” the course’s professor, Steven Alvarez, told Vice.

This existence of such a course isn’t surprising; tacos are a very controversial subject these days — and plenty of people have gotten into trouble for handling the (apparently) sensitive issue in an (apparently) insensitive way….

In 2013, Northwestern University’s Hispanic/Latino Alliance wrote a letter warning students not to eat tacos on Cinco de Mayo because that could make some students feel “unsafe.” In 2014, California State University – Fullerton’s chapter of Alpha Delta Pi sorority faced “serious sanctions” from the school for hosting a Taco Tuesday event where students wore sombreros because that’s “culturally insensitive attire.”

….In any case, taking this course might be a good idea for any student at this school. After all, tacos are (apparently) very grave subject matter, and learning as much as you can about them is (apparently) a very important thing to do.

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  1. Alain41 says:

    Se Habla Wildcat Judd? !Yo quiero Gidget!

    (Gidget was the dog’s name. 2009,RIP)

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