Are the Classics Racist?
Posted on AllSides February 9th, 2021
From The Right
ANALYSIS
To look at the marvels of Greece and Rome and see only ‘whiteness’ speaks to an obsession with race that is destructive and self-defeating.
It was only a matter of time before Cicero got canceled.
The New York Times the other day profiled Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who wants to destroy the study of classics as a blow for racial justice.
The critique of classics as stultifying and privileged isn’t new, but in the woke era this attack is more potent than ever and has a better chance of...
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