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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days ago

Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.”

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Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.”

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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days ago
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Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…
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    When an ancient philosopher predating the birth of Jesus is too “woke” for your institution of higher learning, I have to question the educational value of said institution.

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      Texas has to reduce the input of Thomas Jefferson as an Enlightenment philosopher because he was too woke as a slaveowner.

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      It’s Aggies, so no value there to begin with.

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      Beware the man with one book.

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    You know you’re winning in the “marketplace of ideas” when you have to literally ban the discussion, even the mere mention, of anything you oppose. Solid victory guys. Texas degrees aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.

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      Gotta love that free speech absolutism.

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    A diploma from Texas A&M is worth less than the paper it’s printed on.

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    And here we are

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      Are we so out of touch?

      No, it was Plato who was wrong.

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    Plato: “Everything is a shadowy echo of its perfected nature. Even gender.”

    Ken Paxton: “Any teacher caught mentioning that last bit is fired.”

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      Plato: “Man is a featherless biped”

      A&M: “He’s too dangerous to be left aloud”

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        Round here we gotta cure fer callin anodder man feadderless, hehehe…

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    Fuckin football team with a side hustle.

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    “The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.”

    – Plato, Republic book 1 (translated) circa 375 BCE.

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      Why? Don’t you trust us to read Attic Greek?

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    Wait till then find out about what the Spartans really did!

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    I would like to not exist in this reality any longer, please.

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    Aka, Texas a&m is attempting to be one the right wing fascist schools approved by maga

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      I applied there in 2010 for undergrad and was offered to go there if I joined ROTC. I wrote back asking if I could not, since I objected to war and my offer was rescinded.

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    Texas. The One-Star State.

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    Now please ban all computers because of sexual preferences of Alan Turing.

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    Snowflakes gonna snowflake. lol

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    So dumb

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      Just like A&M graduates!

      /jk

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    Conservatives want to converse the stupidity they had at birth.

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