This professor also thinks that is just fine.
Choose who you get in bed with quite carefully.
Allowing free speech isn’t an endorsement of any particular speech.
I’m pretty sure she’d be fine about teaching about the isle of lesbos
Plato’s views evolved and in his later and last years he condemned same-sex sexual acts as “utterly unholy” and the “ugliest of things”.
The people who want to ban Plato aren’t doing so because he was homosexual - they’re fine with that aspect. They want to ban his work - along with the entire canon of Western literature, philosophy, and science, because they are waging an ideological war against Western civilization and against white males. Are you really in favor of pushing Plato off the shelves and replacing his books with the memoirs of Andrea Dworkin?
Even worse, he was a collectivist who believed in a class of guardians that would run society. He’s the philosophical touchstone of every totalitarian whether they know it or not .
Plato had a lot of destructive things in his philosophy. But it’s hard to imagine getting a degree in philosophy with no exposure to him. If you don’t know his ideas, how can you defeat them? But I guess I’m being too philosophical for A&M.