Texas bans Plato in universities

Cypress said:
I did tell you that you were wrong, and I did tell you that The Symposium is a highly regarded piece of literature, and I did outline why it is important.

It's only when you casually dismissed my statements that I had to shove reputable independent sources that corroborated me down your throat.

You should have just taken my word to have been generally correct from the beginning.
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MAGAts don't care about facts. They have alternative facts.

Toby Tedious may have amounted to something in the past, but now he's just another MAGA loser.

As for Texas A&M, they are hurting their academic reputation with bullshit like book bans, even if it's only 101 classes. Next year it will be the 201 classes if left unchecked.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
MAGAts don't care about facts. They have alternative facts.

Toby Tedious may have amounted to something in the past, but now he's just another MAGA loser.

As for Texas A&M, they are hurting their academic reputation with bullshit like book bans, even if it's only 101 classes. Next year it will be the 201 classes if left unchecked.
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It's MAGA horseshit.

Nobody ever read The Symposium and decided to become transgender.

It's also widely regarded as a classic of western literature and there is no legitimate reason to exclude it from a college class on literature or philosophy.
 
Cypress said:
It's MAGA horseshit.

Nobody ever read The Symposium and decided to become transgender.

It's also widely regarded as a classic of western literature and there is no legitimate reason to exclude it from a college class on literature or philosophy.
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Agreed. What's interesting for me is to see who supports this on JPP. It's very revealing.
 
Tobytone said:
You did in your mind I'm sure, lol. The original argument had zero to do with whether The Symposium is some sacred masterpiece of literature, did it?
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As soon as you claimed The Symposium was a subpar and unimportant piece of Platonic literature, I corrected you by rightly stating is is considered a seminal piece of classic literature.
Tobytone said:
Nope, not even close. Just curious, how much of The Symposium do you think is actually Aristophanes' speech? Hint: Less than you think.
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The pinnacle and most climactic part of The Symposium is Socrates' speech, and anyone who had heard of The Symposium before this thread would have known that.
Tobytone said:
The discussion you barged into after your Google search was about some whiny woke professor crying because he had to follow university rules stemming from Trump's executive order. You jumped in acting like you knew the context, with some telltale signs you were full of shit, tossing out some link from a Columbia article apparently praising how profound The Symposium is, lol.

I haven't even bothered reading what dumbass lecture this loser prof can't teach anymore. I know Plato wasn't banned, anyone can read as much Plato as they want, and I highly recommend they do. If they or you actually do, this third-gender myth will be the least important bullshit in the entire corpus. I suppose if you're someone with gender dysphoria it might seem fascinating, but that's a tiny minority, isn't it?
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Be honest, you never even heard of The Symposium before this thread, and before you knew how to respond you had to scramble to find some right-wing commentary about this somewhere on the internets.
 
Jake Starkey said:
Tobytune can be ignored when it comes to literary criticism.
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Toby is tedious and can be ignored on everything since I've never seen him post anything coherent for long.

Unlike most MAGAts, he seems to have been an educated professional at one time, but like most MAGAts he's sunk into a state of bitter cynacism driven by fear. Most likely fear of death which is common among people who lack faith.
 
Cypress said:
Any political party that bans any work by Plato from a college class are acting like fascists.
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If that ever happens, get back to us.

Never Truthful Walt lied in the OP and got busted. No one banned Plato. The Syllabus of one class was changed because the wokester teaching it perverted a passage from Plato to promote transgenderism. Despite the outright lie by Walt and the Economist, Plato was not banned, not even the single passage was banned. Only the dishonest presentation of that passage by a trans activist.

Americans polled who view the media as truthful are only 6%. This is why - because the media - and I know this is a shitrag from the Caliphate in Englandstan - but the media lies about everything. There is no attempt to even pretend that they are reporting facts.
 
Cypress said:
As soon as you claimed The Symposium was a subpar and unimportant piece of Platonic literature, I corrected you by rightly stating is is considered a seminal piece of classic literature.

The pinnacle and most climactic part of The Symposium is Socrates' speech, and anyone who had heard of The Symposium before this thread would have known that.

Be honest, you never even heard of The Symposium before this thread, and before you knew how to respond you had to scramble to find some right-wing commentary about this somewhere on the internets.
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OMG, I stopped at your first sentence. I can't keep wasting time on this moronic exchange when you clearly can't read what I actually wrote. I never called The Symposium subpar or anything close, you moron. Show me the exact line where I said that.

Let's pivot to a serious issue every libtard seems cursed with. You see things that don't exist, hear things that were never spoken, and somehow read completely different words on the page. Why does every single libtard I deal with suffer from this bizarre hallucination? If you can produce one word from me claiming The Symposium is subpar, I'll wave the white flag, crown you champ, and shut up. Until then, it's maddening to get replies that argue against phantom statements I never made. Fix your reading comprehension, please. I'm done, on top of dealing with your comprehension problems, this discussion isn't interesting enough to warrant explaining everything twice.
 
Uncensored2008 said:
If that ever happens, get back to us.

Never Truthful Walt lied in the OP and got busted. No one banned Plato. The Syllabus of one class was changed because the wokester teaching it perverted a passage from Plato to promote transgenderism. Despite the outright lie by Walt and the Economist, Plato was not banned, not even the single passage was banned. Only the dishonest presentation of that passage by a trans activist.

Americans polled who view the media as truthful are only 6%. This is why - because the media - and I know this is a shitrag from the Caliphate in Englandstan - but the media lies about everything. There is no attempt to even pretend that they are reporting facts.
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The fact that your party is banning one seminal work of Plato from a college class rather than all of them isn't something to brag about. This isn't a cause for you to pat yourself on the back.

It's appalling that you would even ban one classic work of Plato from college curriculum simply to appease some ignorant MAGA Bible thumping theocrats. It makes you look both weak and fascist at the same time.
 
Tobytone said:
OMG, I stopped at your first sentence. I can't keep wasting time on this moronic exchange when you clearly can't read what I actually wrote. I never called The Symposium subpar or anything close, you moron. Show me the exact line where I said that.

Let's pivot to a serious issue every libtard seems cursed with. You see things that don't exist, hear things that were never spoken, and somehow read completely different words on the page. Why does every single libtard I deal with suffer from this bizarre hallucination? If you can produce one word from me claiming The Symposium is subpar, I'll wave the white flag, crown you champ, and shut up. Until then, it's maddening to get replies that argue against phantom statements I never made. Fix your reading comprehension, please. I'm done, on top of dealing with your comprehension problems, this discussion isn't interesting enough to warrant explaining everything twice.
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You were corrected properly. Of course, you stopped. You won't take criticism, particularly when you know you are wrong.
 
Cypress said:
The story is that conservatives are upset because the professor included Plato's 'Symposium' on the course syllabus; a dialogue which explores the ethical dimensions of love, but also has some allusions to homosexual relations.
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So the prof weaponized Plato to promote faggotry?
I'd like to see this psyllabus. Removing Greek philosophers from a philosophy class seems anti-Western civilization is ya ask me.
 
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