Just wait until they discover the civilized ancient Greeks were commonly homosexual and even frequently engaged in pedophilia, especially the Spartans.

It was entirely predictable that the US alt right Neonazi movement would suppress free speech and academic freedom but it is astonishing how fast they're proceeding with their plans. Jason Stanley and Tim Snyder were right in leaving the US.

One wonders if A&M was ever bothered by the ancient Greeks being slaveholders, or the status of their women (talking cattle), or ...

This was just on the front page and promptly disappeared.

It's Texas, they'll just ban Pluto's Republic and declare it Mission Accomplished!

Addendum: 60 minutes on, no one's questioned the spelling or mentioned a 1960 Nobel Prize winner in biology.

So, "conservatives" yell about "preserving western civilization" whilst violating it's core principles of free speech and knowledge inquiry plus banning discussion of a founding thinker of western civilization.

Whatever this is, it is NOT conservative, and it shows no modern right wing argument is ever made in good faith or on principle; the yelling is nothing but whatever sounds good at the moment, and the moment it is inconvenient, it changes.

They have fewer principles than Vladimir Lenin.

From the original non-blogspam article:

> In a statement to the Tribune, A&M said the decision did not amount to a ban on teaching Plato and that other sections of the same course that include Plato – but do not include modules on race and gender ideology – had been approved.

This is a slippery slope towards a Fahrenheit 451 type world