Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Western heritage in bull’s-eye, warns author

Political correctness has only intensified in the years since.
And now, Donna Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook founder and anti-Trump activist Mark Zuckerberg, has identified the next battleground of the culture wars – classical studies.
In a contribution at Eidolon, where she is an editor, Zuckerberg instructs her fellow liberals “How to Be a Good Classicist Under a Bad Emperor.”
Under a picture of the Roman Emperor Augustus with a Hitler mustache, Zuckerberg complains the so-called “alt-right” and related movements “love the classics.”
Defiantly, she insists, “We must not allow the alt-right to define what classics will mean in Trump’s America.” Read more here: http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/western-heritage-in-bulls-eye-warns-author/

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