Republicans whine about cancel culture, then they censor the classics |
A famous section of Plato’s “Symposium,” in which the Greek playwright Aristophanes describes how humans were split by the gods and spend part of their lives searching for their other halves, is apparently too focused on gender to be taught in a Texas A&M University classroom.
Despite their constant complaints that universities need to teach the classics, philosophy professor Martin Peterson was told on Jan. 6 that he needed to remove this reading from his syllabus or be assigned to a new class. The passage, which includes a reference to a gender that was a “union” of man and woman, was to be taught in Peterson’s “Contemporary Moral Issues” class during the spring semester.
While university leaders swear they aren’t going to stop teaching Plato altogether, it sure seems........