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Nothing has made me more sympathetic to the 'burn it down' angle than the absolute dreck getting churned out in 'defence' of Classics. https://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/1360383180931551233
No one wants to stop reading Plato. They'd just rather do it in rooms where they're not being judged for not being white, male, or rich.
Everyone advocating for change, I think, wants the opportunity for everyone who wants to to read Plato, and for those who don't to spend a bit more time with Demotic or the Kerameikos or whatever else catches their fancy.
Our discipline needs to be accessible, and it needs to be broad, with strong connections to people in related departments.
The only good faith disagreement I've seen is on how we get there — is reform enough, or do we need to go further?
Everything else is missing the point, so I'd like to personally request websites stop publishing tangential op-eds as a) I'm stuck at home and will inevitably read them and b) they make me want to throw books at walls.
I quite like my books, and my landlord is rather attached to the walls, so let's please avoid that.
