Texas A&M bans teachings of Plato

[surfered]

Because…Texas…and Humanities sounds too similar to DEI.

[iluvtennis]

1. What is this country coming to - I am so disgusted. n/t

[Dave Bowman]

2. Bunch of damn ignorant fools.

[niyad]

3. This is from The Onion, YESSS??? PLEASE tell me this is from The Onion.

[SheltieLover]

4. Is it?

[niyad]

5. One hopes!

[SheltieLover]

9. Gawd, please tell me it is!

[Jim__]

16. Here's a link to an article in Reason on this.

Reason article

[Gaugamela]

6. This song is a recap of Aristophanes' speech in Plato's Symposium:

This is what the snowflakes object to.

[Simeon Salus]

8. One of mankind's finest expressions about why humans so desperately seek each other

Remember seeing this off-Broadway and being wowed and surprised by the lead performance.

[surfered]

7. Sadly. No

[SheltieLover]

10. Omfg! They really pride themselves on stupid, don't they?

Just stay chained in the cave...

[surfered]

14. Yup!

[Gaugamela]

15. What is "sadly no" referring to?

[niyad]

17. Probably a response to post 3.

[Wednesdays]

11. Link?

Not that I don't believe you, but I need a source before I pass it on.

[TBF]

13. here it is - but a small publication

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https://dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/

The Chron (A&M isn't too far north of Houston) hasn't picked this up yet, as far as I can see

gift article now that Chron has it: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/shooting-is-reported-in-minneapolis-where-the-21281593.php

[TBF]

12. My son was in-state & this school was the natural fit

but he wouldn't apply and we didn't push him. He's majoring in econ/math at an out of state university.

This university has always been very conservative, so they are agreeable to whatever Abbott wants. Sadly, they are also a very wealthy school with all their research grants.

[Javaman]

18. and what did they replace Plato with? goebbels? nt