Frank says: "The Republic by Plato" Merle says: "Clearly the implicit bias is that all of these reading requirements were written by White men."
One point that interests me here is the determination that Plato was white. Perhaps he should be considered white: he likely owned slaves, he was educated, and likely had about as much privilege as anyone could imagine at the time. On the other hand, if any of his ancestors found themselves in the new world circa 1900 they likely would have found themselves digging the most profound ditches. What exactly is meant by white anyway? Is it possible that producing work powerful enough to influence 2500 years of white thinking is what makes Plato white? What about white Jesus? -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
