New York City college students at a four-year university in Manhattan can now take a course titled "How to Steal," which promises to look at "radical ethics" around theft. Yes, you read that correctly.
Students at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts can take the four-credit class that will cost students upwards of $10,040 to look at things like the "aesthetics of theft in a world where accumulation is sacred," the New York Post reported.
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NYC college students learning ‘How to Steal’ — as class teaches ‘line between private property and public good is drawn in blood’ https://t.co/dbFpF6OSTU pic.twitter.com/x0dCPzwQC1
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The report noted the insanity of the course description.
It read:
This field-based seminar explores the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of theft in a world where accumulation is sacred, dispossession is routine, and the line between private property and public good is drawn in blood.
Students will critically examine what it means to steal-from whom, for whom, and why— through site visits and fieldwork in places where capital is hoarded and value is contested: corporate storefronts, grocery chains, museums, libraries, banks, and cultural institutions.
The one part that really stood out was the part about how the course will ask the question, "Is it possible to steal back what was already stolen?"
It went on:
What does theft look like under capitalism, colonialism, and in everyday life? When is theft survival, protest, or care-and when is it violence, appropriation, or harm?
The course catalog concluded by pointing out that the class is "not a course in petty crime—it is a study in moral ambiguity, radical ethics, and imaginative justice."
The irony of teaching this class in a blue state like New York, where criminals can shoplift less than a $1,000 worth of goods and face nothing more than a misdemeanor, is not lost. California was also a place where this craziness ruled the day, allowing people to just steal and face little consequences, before residents said enough was enough, passing Proposition 36, as RedState reported.
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The NYC college's move is just the latest by a university to push woke courses and ones on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), despite President Donald Trump's announcement that this insanity is going to end.
As RedState's Steve Williams reported, it is beyond time for young conservatives to get into the classroom and counteract the leftist indoctrination in schools/universities.
Williams wrote:
This ideological imbalance is not limited to K-12 schools. Colleges and universities show an even starker divide. A 2024 Duke University faculty survey found that 62 percent of faculty identified as liberal or very liberal, while only about 14 percent identified as conservative or very conservative.
Similarly, at Yale, a faculty voting analysis revealed that 77percent are registered Democrats or lean Democratic, while a mere three percent are Republicans. Students across the country are increasingly exposed to a narrow ideological lens, and the consequences ripple beyond campuses into society at large.
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