It’s worse. People in my recent MA and PhD don’t just disbelieve in the Socratic method: if any grad student or professor knows who Socrates is, then they openly oppose him because Socrates was white and male (according to them and my discipline’s literature). They ‘cancel’ him and his ‘patriarchal’ status (and Plato and Aristotle) on a …
It’s worse. People in my recent MA and PhD don’t just disbelieve in the Socratic method: if any grad student or professor knows who Socrates is, then they openly oppose him because Socrates was white and male (according to them and my discipline’s literature). They ‘cancel’ him and his ‘patriarchal’ status (and Plato and Aristotle) on a regular basis. I’ve witnessed this categorical dismissal and zealous erasure in real time by my professors and via citation justice. For his very ancient self to be present in modern academia confirms the patriarchy is alive and well and must be fought by any means necessary. Even pseudoscience and erasure if necessary.
It’s worse. People in my recent MA and PhD don’t just disbelieve in the Socratic method: if any grad student or professor knows who Socrates is, then they openly oppose him because Socrates was white and male (according to them and my discipline’s literature). They ‘cancel’ him and his ‘patriarchal’ status (and Plato and Aristotle) on a regular basis. I’ve witnessed this categorical dismissal and zealous erasure in real time by my professors and via citation justice. For his very ancient self to be present in modern academia confirms the patriarchy is alive and well and must be fought by any means necessary. Even pseudoscience and erasure if necessary.