"Prof. Martin Peterson shared emails with the website Daily Nous detailing orders he received from administration to "remove the modules based on race ideology and gender ideology and the Plato readings that may include these." These are readings from Plato's Symposium, specifically from Aristophanes' story about the origin of love and Diotima's ladder of love, which include discussions of love between people of the same sex."
"An email from Philosophy Department Chair Kristi Sweet refers to the school's Board of Regents' policy banning courses that "Advocate race or gender ideology or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity" without "prior written approval of the member CEO." Her email says that some upper-level classes can discuss sexual orientation or gender identity if they can prove the "necessary educational purpose," but the Contemporary Moral Problems class is introductory, so it gets no such exemption."
A professor at Texas A&M was instructed to stop teaching Plato in an introductory philosophy course under a new policy banning the teaching of "gender ideology." Professor Martin Peterson provided emails showing administration ordered removal of modules on race and gender ideology and Plato readings that may include such themes. The contested passages are from Plato's Symposium, including Aristophanes' origin-of-love story and Diotima's ladder, which reference same-sex love. College leadership reviewed the Contemporary Moral Problems syllabus in December, and the Philosophy Chair cited a Board of Regents policy that restricts such course content absent prior CEO approval.
Read at LGBTQ Nation
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]