{"id":3933,"date":"2019-03-02T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/02\/politically-correct-classicism\/"},"modified":"2019-03-02T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T05:24:15","slug":"politically-correct-classicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/02\/politically-correct-classicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Politically Correct &#8216;Classicism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">There is nothing so insane that a &#39;progressive&#39; won&#39;t support. How about the classics without the classical languages?&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/02\/26\/how-i-was-kicked-out-of-the-society-for-classical-studies-annual-meeting\/\">Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Connolly seemed hostile to the study of classical Greek and Latin. She said that the ancient languages could not be taught anymore by Classics departments. She did not say why, besides cost. Instead, she thought that \u201cwe\u201d should not require all classicists to teach Greek and Latin. \u201cI think the field would be better served by training a next generation of faculty free and empowered to focus on teaching topics of broader interest.\u201d Not Latin or Greek, in other words.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">No, you are not dreaming. Pinch yourself. This stuff is really happening. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing so insane that a &#39;progressive&#39; won&#39;t support. How about the classics without the classical languages?&#0160; Here: Connolly seemed hostile to the study of classical Greek and Latin. She said that the ancient languages could not be taught anymore by Classics departments. She did not say why, besides cost. Instead, she thought that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/02\/politically-correct-classicism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politically Correct &#8216;Classicism&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}