# Should Plato Be Banned from University Courses?

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**Created:** [January 8, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-plato-be-banned-from-university-courses/1026460 "2026-01-08T04:19:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-plato-be-banned-from-university-courses/1026460/23 "2026-01-19T19:12:02Z")

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See also

> [@Plato banned in Texas university, Also: how come his gender ideology survived the Middle Ages?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plato-banned-in-texas-university-also-how-come-his-gender-ideology-survived-the-middle-ages/1026823):
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> Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfire between state and stupid. As [The Texas Tribune has reported](https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/texas-am-race-gender-courses/), faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences were informed just last week that “a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender” is set to take effect today. The policy, engineered and approved by the Texas A&M Un…

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> [@Reluctantly — Fuck Texas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/1041):
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> And of course, it covers such new age woke nonsense as 2400 year old Greek philosophers, i.e. A&M bans selected readings from Plato:

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