/lit/ - Literature

>>23093547
Well I know next to nothing about classics in the academy, but I think the argument that requiring Latin and Greek proficiency before getting let in is racist is obviously wrong. That's ideology. But while people do believe in ideology and it's not entirely cynical, there are usually other motivations at work... like they want to draw more students to it because the classics has a self-imposed reputation as an elitist subject for a shrinking number of homeschooled white kids from rich and ultra-conservative families who send them to study pre-3rd century BC Greek texts to strengthen their immortal souls. But how do you keep this thing going when the money and resources are going into STEM?

That also wouldn't even describe most Twitter people with handles like Lolistotle, etruscanRAGE, and PepeAeschylus1488 who extol classical western civilization but clearly have only a superficial grounding in it. They're new to it, too. Are you happy to see new blood enter the scene or are you annoyed that these johnny-come-lately classics nerds are appropriating a culture you were in before it was cool?