Do the Classics promote White Privilege?

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Padilla believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it. “Far from being extrinsic to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity,” he has written, “the production of whiteness turns on closer examination to reside in the very marrows of classics.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html
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Just more gobbledegoop bullshit. Funny how it all always ends one way. Spmebody looking for a handout.
 
He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?

In the world of classics, the exchange between Dan-el Padilla Peralta and Mary Frances Williams has become known simply as “the incident.” Their back-and-forth took place at a Society of Classical Studies conference in January 2019 — the sort of academic gathering at which nothing tends to happen that would seem controversial or even interesting to those outside the discipline. But that year, the conference featured a panel on “The Future of Classics,” which, the participants agreed, was far from secure. On top of the problems facing the humanities as a whole — vanishing class sizes caused by disinvestment, declining prominence and student debt — classics was also experiencing a crisis of identity. Long revered as the foundation of “Western civilization,” the field was trying to shed its self-imposed reputation as an elitist subject overwhelmingly taught and studied by white men. Recently the effort had gained a new sense of urgency: Classics had been embraced by the far right, whose members held up the ancient Greeks and Romans as the originators of so-called white culture. Marchers in Charlottesville, Va., carried flags bearing a symbol of the Roman state; online reactionaries adopted classical pseudonyms; the white-supremacist website Stormfront displayed an image of the Parthenon alongside the tagline “Every month is white history month.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html
 
What sort of debate is to be had on this topic? LOL Yeah, white people are awesome. What the fuck do you want? What is your intent? Do I have to tie my hands behind my back because your ancestors failed to progress? You people have an inferiority complex that's now called a social science. LOL The globalists are trying to bait everyone into a race war and the blacks are easy to rile up. That's what this article is
 
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