[Red State] Brett Rushforth, the chair of the University of Oregon history department announced on Twitter that the department decided to stop teaching about Western civilization because they felt it encouraged "white supremacy". Rushforth writes a long thread outlining his decision because apparently history is entire subjective, and also, Western civilization is racist, of course. The department has also apparently decided to not accept AP credit from high schools on the subject.
In his thread Rushforth claims "The obvious problems‐what is "western" and who gets to count as being "civilized"‐weren’t the only reasons to make the change. It was also about how white supremacists have embraced the notion of western civilization to make racist claims about non-European people."