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No reason to believe that classics as a field has had any particular tendency towards white supremacism either in the present or in the past.
If we are looking for a civilization that never engaged in mass violence or destruction, we’re unlikely to find one.
Appiah is wrong to pretend that distinct civilizations were never a thing.
There’s nothing wrong with teaching Western Civilization or the Western classics alongside other cultural traditions. At the same time, the way Classics used to be taught is gone for good.