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Trump's Second Term

lionking said:
Okay, but given his heritage please excuse my skepticism. I’d put a lot of money on any government mandating an hereditary Shah with supreme powers.
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Aridas said:
As a bit of a side note that's not directly the Trump Administration, but is relevant to the forces driving it -

University bans philosophy professor from teaching about Plato because it’s too gay
Plato, Socrates, and Aristophanes are too woke for Texas now.

This is pathetic.
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And Texas A and M loses all credibility as a institute of higher educatin.
 
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dudalb said:
And Texas A and M loses all credibility as a institute of higher educatin.
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Texas A&M has a history of retaining its reputation, if not its credibility, through a number of such incidents. Within just the past five years, two of its presidents have been forced to resign. The most recent resignation, just last September, was occasioned by the university's firing of senior lecturer Melissa McCoul who, in a course on children's literature, covered the topic of gender identity. A Texas A&M committee that looked into that firing concluded "the university didn’t follow proper procedures and didn’t prove there was good cause" for her termination. The university nonetheless refuses to reinstate McCoul. McCoul “looks forward to pursuing her First Amendment, due process and breach of contract claims in court very soon.”

This is all related to rules laid down by the university's Board of Regents in November declaring "that no academic course within the System may teach race or gender ideology or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity, unless the course and its materials are approved in advance by a university president."

It isn't entirely true that Texas A&M has forbidden its professors to mention Plato. They can still cover Plato in their courses so long as they're careful to avoid any mention of Plato's views on love and sexuality.
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Saying they thought they were voting for a different Donald Trump is about the only reasonable explanation why anyone would vote for him once, let alone twice
 
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