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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago

Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.”

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Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.”

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e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago
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Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…
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    You know you’re winning in the “marketplace of ideas” when you have to literally ban the discussion, even the mere mention, of anything you oppose. Solid victory guys. Texas degrees aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.

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    I would like to not exist in this reality any longer, please.

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    When an ancient philosopher predating the birth of Jesus is too “woke” for your institution of higher learning, I have to question the educational value of said institution.

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      Texas has to reduce the input of Thomas Jefferson as an Enlightenment philosopher because he was too woke as a slaveowner.

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      It’s Aggies, so no value there to begin with.

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    Fuckin football team with a side hustle.

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    Plato: “Everything is a shadowy echo of its perfected nature. Even gender.”

    Ken Paxton: “Any teacher caught mentioning that last bit is fired.”

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      Plato: “Man is a featherless biped”

      A&M: “He’s too dangerous to be left aloud”

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        Round here we gotta cure fer callin anodder man feadderless, hehehe…

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    A diploma from Texas A&M is worth less than the paper it’s printed on.

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    Wait till then find out about what the Spartans really did!

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    Snowflakes gonna snowflake. lol

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    Someone should start writing Texas “Aggie” jokes!

    Cause they’s so dang stupid!

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