UCL students demand white philosophers including Plato and Descartes be dropped | Daily Mail Online
'You can’t rule out a whole area of intellectual endeavour without having investigated it and clearly they haven’t investigated what they mean by white philosophy. '
'The students say it is in order to ‘decolonise’ the ‘white institution’ that is their college. '
'They are titans of philosophy, without whose work an understanding of the subject is all but inconceivable. '
'But now students at a University of London college are demanding that such seminal figures as Plato, Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell should be largely dropped from the curriculum simply because they are white. '
'Last night philosopher Sir Roger Scruton lambasted the union’s demand, saying: ‘This suggests ignorance and a determination not to overcome that ignorance. '
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'You can’t rule out a whole area of intellectual endeavour without having investigated it and clearly they haven’t investigated what they mean by white philosophy. '
'The students say it is in order to ‘decolonise’ the ‘white institution’ that is their college. '
'They are titans of philosophy, without whose work an understanding of the subject is all but inconceivable. '
'But now students at a University of London college are demanding that such seminal figures as Plato, Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell should be largely dropped from the curriculum simply because they are white. '
'Last night philosopher Sir Roger Scruton lambasted the union’s demand, saying: ‘This suggests ignorance and a determination not to overcome that ignorance. '
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