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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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 · 2 months 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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    Wait till then find out about what the Spartans really did!

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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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    Famous lefty radical Plato

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      Gotta watch that newfangled philosophy - why don’t we just use the classics? /s

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

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    Texas. The One-Star State.

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    From the article:

    The 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.

    Gotta love how AI is calling the shots in so many sectors these days. It makes for the perfect scapegoat. “Well the AI said so” is not a valid response in my mind, but those in charge clearly disagree. I’ve also read of situations where an AI will be ‘in charge’ but there will be a human on site to help out (or likely more accurately–take the fall when the AI fucks up)

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    I already despised Texas A&M for ruining the jalapeño pepper. Now we get further dumbassery.

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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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    When will the mandatory public book burnings begin?

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      • MAGA candidate’s book-burning stunt shows Missouri’s reputation for censorship, hate
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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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    So they’re banning Plato, but is Socrates still OK?

    :D

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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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    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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        Because he beefed with the church.

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      Beware the man with one book.

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

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