Comments on: Reading The Classics Without Trigger Warnings

By: soapjackal

soapjackal — Tue, 26 May 2015 16:24:52 +0000

“were neither Progressives nor Reactionaries” this is really the benefit of the classical works and mythology. They are works already filtered for extreme quality that allow the discussion of ideas that are inherently outside of the Overton window. I wish I could impress how risky and unrewarding it is to signal as a reactionary (from the stand point of foundations of your thought) since it is defined as opposition to progs. The classics are all examples of creative development born of conflict that don’t rely on negative identity. If you choose what to talk about you’ve already won half the conversation.

By: Man for all seasons

Man for all seasons — Wed, 20 May 2015 18:05:58 +0000

Even Marx would be deemed too racist (genocidal, actually), sexist, patriarchal, androcentric, imperialist and classist according to their own tastes and standards, if they even bothered to read his writings, including his letters.

By: hitchc

hitchc — Wed, 20 May 2015 16:45:06 +0000

Perhaps there was a time when the classics were held clean of the filth of the left, but that time has passed. I sat today in a university classroom as the fat female mythology instructor ranted on about the misogyny of the greeks and their gods. Scanning the classroom showed shit eating grins on each of those young faces; their smug satisfaction in their moral superiority to the ancients was palpable.

By: Mark Citadel

Mark Citadel — Wed, 20 May 2015 15:15:14 +0000

As the left moves further and further away from human origins and intent, all of these things once considered unquestionably good reading material start to become irritant to them, though they may seem benign to normal people. In some cases, even ideological standard-bearers who they once adored have now become toxic due to their antiquated values. Take Nietzsche, someone who I’m no great fan of. The Nietzsche club was recently banned at a college in England because he was racist, classist, and of all hilarious crimes ‘anti-Marxist’.

http://www.critical-theory.com/nietzsche-club-banned/

The trigger warnings on classics is just another event in this long line of degradation where we can see the left escape any orbit of good thinking and zoom off into outer space. The college is at the forefront. If you want to see where the entire culture will be in 10 years or less, just look to the colleges. Not a pretty sight for sure.

Thanks for this witty piece.