SPEECH ‘Ban on Plato’: Professor says Texas A&M censored materials in contemporary morals class

College Fix ^ | 1-8-26 | Micaiah Bilger

[MarlonRando]

Peterson, who emphasized that his comments are personal and do not reflect the views of the university, told The Fix that “the ban on Plato” in his spring semester class came from an email from his department chair, Kristi Sweet.

[MarlonRando]

The lady that is trying to enforce the ban on Plato can be found here:

https://artsci.tamu.edu/philosophy/contact/profiles/kristi-sweet.html

[SaxxonWoods]

Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.

-Mussolini

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Plato thought having sex with boys was just the fine.

This professor also thinks that is just fine.

Choose who you get in bed with quite carefully.

[SaxxonWoods]

Allowing free speech isn’t an endorsement of any particular speech.

[MarlonRando]

I’m pretty sure she’d be fine about teaching about the isle of lesbos

[C210N]

You mean these memes are illegal and verbotton in this class?

[allendale]

If the American nation is to be preserved and prosper, then its rotting universities must be purged of culture hating, pseudo scholar leftists and restored to academic greatness. Leftists tend to nest at colleges and universities and ultimately cause their ruin.

[Wuli]

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”.

[C210N]

Plato and the Matrix, mixed.

My view of anything MSM these days

[ek_hornbeck]

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?

[PeterPrinciple]

University flagged ‘material advocating race,’ ‘gender ideology’ that included Plato readings

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Folks,

don’t just read the headline. It is not about Plato, the issues are race and gender ideology and thee way they are being taught. The guy looks like a poofter and that is why is is a part of his teaching.

There is much proper teaching of philosophy with out perversion.

[MarlonRando]

and she is against the parts that acknowledge the contribution of White males

[ClearCase_guy]

Victor Davis Hanson was a noted classics scholar decades ago, but perhaps not widely read outside of the circle of people who care about classical studies. But then he published this, which brought him wider attention:

The book spends time discussing the value learning the latin language and also Greek. But the wider issue is that the ideas of the Classical Age -- Greek Drama, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, etc has real value in this modern world which no longer seems to understand morality or fundamental values.

Of course, some people don't want us to understand morality at all.

[Wuli]

The problem arrives only when and because a single point of view is the only point of view formally introduced for discussion and no counter point of view of equal intellectual weight and reason is formally included for discussion. The former is propaganda without the latter.

However, I would argue anything called “gender ideology” is itself a mere point of view that in a college course should only be presented as a point of view with counter points of view mandatorily included as well.

[MarlonRando]

of course. in the sciences, you discussed history and current events and compare the two and there’s no need to judge this or that. It’s just history.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

A philosophy department that bans Plato is not a philosophy department. Every culture - including Arab, Muslim and Persian culture - looks to Plato as a foundational source of morality.

[ek_hornbeck]

A philosophy department that bans Plato is not a philosophy department. Every culture - including Arab, Muslim and Persian culture - looks to Plato as a foundational source of morality.

Not only ethics, but also ontology and logic.

Your point about Muslims is well taken - for all of their hatred for "infidels", even Muslims usually don't go so far in their attacks on Western culture as the woke Left.

[Kleon]

Why are we teaching Plato in 2025? What could possibly be gained from it? Maybe as a basis for studying the neoplatonists, but that would be very specialized.

[DesertRhino]

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 .

[MarlonRando]

Ancient history? The building of rational civilizations I suppose? I’m all for it. It beats Palestinian genderqueer post-colonial blah blah