Submission + - Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology." (lithub.com)
joshuark writes: The philosopher-king is dead in Texas. Texas A&M has a new policy of: “a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender” starting this semester. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid. The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M University Regents last November, requires that the school’s president sign off on every syllabus with an eye to scrubbing “problematic” content. Plato and his Theory of Forms, and The Republic are not truthful enough, and so problematic.
Gender ideology is defined as “a concept of self-assessed gender identity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.” Race ideology entails “attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity” or anything that “promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.”
The forward-thinking regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision. A philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to “either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology'” from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities,” feminist and queer film, or race and ethnicity as a subjectfullstop.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies. And watch the Star Trek Original Series episode "Plato's Step-Children"...about absolute power corrupting absolutely.
Gender ideology is defined as “a concept of self-assessed gender identity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.” Race ideology entails “attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity” or anything that “promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction.”
The forward-thinking regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision. A philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to “either remove ‘modules on race and gender ideology'” from his course, or be reassigned to teach a different class entirely.
Meanwhile, A&M students are set to be deprived of so much recent world. Including but not limited to “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities,” feminist and queer film, or race and ethnicity as a subjectfullstop.
As you go about your reading today, pour one out for the Aggies. And watch the Star Trek Original Series episode "Plato's Step-Children"...about absolute power corrupting absolutely.
