CRT really is a universal acid, burning through and destroying so many precious things.
@NYTmag reports on the effort—already well underway—to condemn and destroy classics as a discipline.
Utter madness.
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nytimes.com/2021/02/02/mag…
@NYTmag reports on the effort—already well underway—to condemn and destroy classics as a discipline.
Utter madness.
/1
nytimes.com/2021/02/02/mag…
“To see classics the way Padilla sees it means breaking the mirror; it means condemning the classical legacy as one of the most harmful stories we’ve told ourselves.”
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“Classics and whiteness are the bones and sinew of the same body; they grew strong together, and they may have to die together.”
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“This past semester, he co-taught a course, with the Activist Graduate School, called ‘Rupturing Tradition,’ which pairs ancient texts with critical race theory and strategies for organizing.”
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“I think that the politics of the living are what constitute classics as a site for productive inquiry,” he told me. “When folks think of classics, I would want them to think about folks of color.”
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“But if classics fails his test, Padilla and others are ready to give it up. ‘I would get rid of classics altogether,’ Walter Scheidel, another of Padilla’s former advisers at Stanford, told me. ‘I don’t think it should exist as an academic field.’”
Madness.
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Madness.
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