University Students Demand Philosophers Such as Plato and Kant Are [sic] Removed From Syllabus Because They Are White
9th January 2017
Racism, pure and simple.
Sir Roger Scruton, the philosopher, said the demands suggest “ignorance”. “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,” he told The Mail on Sunday.
“If they think there is a colonial context from which Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason arose, I would like to hear it.’