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Students demand an end to Western Civilization

The reason these students have a university to attend where they can make ridiculous demands is because of the advancements of Western Civilization, which they now wish to tear down. Students demand Plato, Descartes and other white philosophers be dropped from curriculum Camilla Turner, The Telegraph  |  January 8, 2017 8:34 PM ET More from The Telegraph   Twitter   Google+   Reddit   Email   Typo?   More Wikimedia Students at a prestigious London university are demanding that Plato be dropped from the curriculum because he is white. They are said to be the founding fathers of Western philosophy, whose ideas underpin civilized society. But students at a prestigious London university are demanding that such figures as Plato, Descartes and Immanuel Kant be largely dropped from the curriculum because they are white. The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)’s student union is insisting that when studying philosophy, “the majority of philosophers