First-year students at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay will soon be able to enroll in a “Green Lives Matter” seminar course to bone up on the “environmental justice movement,” the College Fix reports.
The title of the class is clearly a play on the controversial “Black Lives Matter” social justice movement. Inevitably, someone is going to point out how problematic this is and demand the name be changed, so stay tuned.
“Green Lives Matter,” according to an online description, will examine the “merging of civil rights and environmental concerns,” and will include discussions about issues such as “Flint lead contamination, migrant farm worker pesticide exposure, Cancer Alley (Louisiana), mining on tribal lands, Hurricane Katrina, Alaskan natives, urban environmental harms, and others.”
According to the course description, the environmental justice movement is “led primarily by people of color, women, and blue collar sectors of society,” a dubious claim, to say the least.
In addition to “Green Lives Matter,” first-year students at UW–Green Bay can choose from an array of exciting educational offerings, including “Food Politics,” where students can learn about how “eating is very much a political act,” and “Video Game Music,” which offers a “brief, but colorful, history of music in video games through interdisciplinary perspectives.”
Other noteworthy first-year seminars include “From Disney’s Pocahontas to the NFL: Stereotypes and the Realities of First Nations People,” “Love & Lust in America,” “Gods, Ghosts and Goblins,” “The Politics of Sports,” and “That’s So Gay! Explorations of LGBT Lives and Identities.”
