One might be tempted to dismiss this as just some Woke sophomore stringing together every airhead phrase he’d ever heard, but I think it’s slightly more meaningful, and more ominous, than that. In a nutshell, I think it’s subversion in sheep’s clothing, albeit with a sheep that been smoking some really good pot.
Note, for example, the phrase, “lived experiences, ideas, and insights to tell more inclusive and complex stories of the past, present, and future…” What does that mean? You can’t really tell (which is a big part of the idea), but the buzzwords about “lived experience,” “inclusive,” and “complex” versions of the past are a tip-off that this workshop is going to fill you in on, for example, the “fact” that everything in American history is only a footnote to slavery, and that the main deal with that dead white male George Washington is that he was an “enslaver.”
Or take, “Explore their identities and culture and deconstruct its impact on how they make meaning and behave…” What does that mean? I have no clue, but the one thing I can tell is that it focuses on the student and his/her/their/its “identity” and making of his/her/their/its “meaning.”
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