Anything that makes you think outside cis straight WASP land. They’ve destroyed their reputation as places to learn.

Authoritarians hate knowledge and education.

Knowledge is apparently DEI. It’s dangerous.

The good news is they are making [white] America great again: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Plantations Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in White Supremecy Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Segregation Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Good Ol’ Boy Networking

Hmmm 🤔 🤔 These are not JUST about “Philosophy” to the Neanderthal Moronic ASSinine Governor! They are part of the JD(law), medical, and psychology departments… you know!!! Science! Idiot! So Ohio is off my list of places to go… who’s next???

It's too thinky, David. Very dangerous.

So do they have to refund tuition for students majoring in those studies?

OH! It’s disheartening living in a state that doesn’t represent you!

Ohio your poles are depriving you of great learnings. Don’t let them make you stupid! Demand better!

Or Religious Studies? Or Spanish? Maybe there's something specific about the teaching faculty for those subjects? But it's absolutely crazy, whatever the reason.

College bound students - show DeWine what you think! Stand up to the ignorant bully - go out of state - cost them in enrollments, tuition, fees, housing. You are our future and you deserve better than him and all republicans who use dei to be racist, fascist, xenophobic, homophobic …

What's DEI-ish about learning? On any topic??

RIP PhDs

Thinking g is bad.

The school admins were waiting for this. Adding underperforming majors to the “DEI” list.

Good thing Asia isn't rising, eh?

Can't encourage critical thinking!

Philosophy is a DEI gateway course. It leads to stronger, more addictive forms of DEI.

Or any of it, actually.

Critical thinking. Ask DuBois.

My native state continues to set the bar lower and lower.

It involves thinking

I think you have the wrong definition of DEI. In modern American English, it means, Let's do all the racist, anti-science, sexist, anti-intellectual shit that mommy said was bad. Ack Ack.

Well, sir, those dam philosophers are just like those 'troublesome priests' of old.

Critical thought, comprehension, questioning order... all banned. Stay stooopid under drumpf!! #idiocracy

You try and find happiness for people using reason.

WTF

Critical thinking?

Thought. Just thought. Thought is pro-vax and anti-Christian, not to mention anti-anti-abortion and pro tax. Worst of all, it demands deliberation, encourages conversation, and produces alternatives. Philosophy would be the death of all proper things, as it always has.

Religious Studies? The fake Christians will be upset.

Probably not, since religious studies would include acknowledging a variety of other myths and faiths around the world.

You have never lived in Ohio have you? I lived there for about 60 of my 69 years. Ohio is about as ass back words as it gets. They just fly under the radar better.

Spanish? 🤦‍♀️

They don't know what it even means.

Data analytics?

It’s not from ‘Mercia??

#NoToOhio

I hope he loses his next election, and that "University" of Toledo goes broke. That's right, I'm not nice when it comes to this stuff.

One can no longer earn a Liberal Arts degree in the state of Ohio.

Knowledge is a powerful weapon. They are afraid of it. I kids learn about different schools of thought they might realize that our leaders are morally bankrupt and toss them out.

Yes, let’s not learn about the social, political and religious background of these regions since America First means retracting from the global stage and not caring about what happens “there”as if there is not implication on us. 🙄

Do they define DEI as being everything non-white?

Lower Education

Diversity of thought, critical thinking, theory of argument, formal logic, etc. Can't teach that there are different kinds of ethical systems in an environment where *they* want to replace it all with oligarchy. One of my favorite philosophy major classes was labeled "Philosophy of Nuclear War." 😇

Thought and any type of introspective consideration are against MAGA principles

Answer: Philosophy makes fascism look bad. *DeWine has the (figurative) spine of a wet noodle. Yes I know he has spina bifida, that why I wrote figurative.

Heaven forbid is anyone learns how to think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Data Analytics. Trump regime is against thinking and data (facts).

I guess Ohio residents will have to leave the state to get a complete education. Maybe they can sue the state for the difference between Ohio in state tuition and the out of state tuition they will be forced to pay?

Oh how these white supremacists love their ignorance!

How is data analytics DEI?

It makes you think

Thinking is apparently "DEI" now.

Ohio's heritage.

Paused for 3.5 years.

It seems they don't want us to develop critical thinkingðical reasoning skills—vital for personal growth & societal progress. They aim to narrow intellectual horizons, stifling independent thought&preventing diverse dialogue. It's a step away from cultivating informed&empowered individuals.

They want to make sure no one is capable of critical thinking since they're all too stupid to engage in that, even if taught

Ohio—Determined to beat Alabama in everything, especially racism & fascism!

Ignorance & oppression also very high on the list.😊

Unsurprising, really. Authoritarians are not keen on the general population developing critical and analytical thinking skills.

that women and minorities think?

guess we're going back to the good old days when colleges only elevate ignorant white men.

All those post modernists, David.. it sends them into a tizzy.. don’t you know it’s all “their” fault?

Nothing. Philosophy and several others were low-enrollment majors already being considered for elimination. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/23/u...

Among other things, SB1 requires that students take a course in "American civic literacy" that requires them to read the Emancipation Proclamation and MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Stupid Ohio Universities. Football and sports is all they do.

It would be just as horrible if they hadn’t included philosophy.

…or Spanish?

Peoples be thinking too much

OMG!!!🤦🏼‍♀️

Philosophers.

Ohio keying up to compete in the "shithole state" award.

There’s a lot of competition 🤦🏼‍♀️

DEI = anything strongly intellectual and requiring a strong mental discipline for learning As a philosophy major who learned logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and the teachings of the great movements, that seems clear

MASA - Make America Stupid Again.

Holy Cow! And Spanish????

Let ‘em talk ‘Murican the way God intended!

No critical thinking allowed

AND Data Analytics No thinking allowed in the post-DEI world

Only DOGE and Big Balls are allowed to analyze data ✔️

Gov DeWhine

Complete bs. Dewine is a sycophant and is spineless.

These people are sick

Certain things need to be suppressed FOr example: how to dupe gullible rubes 1/ "while in democracies the oligarchical statesmen ought to pretend to be speaking on behalf of the people, and the oligarchics ought to take oath in terms exactly opposite to those which they use now, ...

2/ for at present in some oligarchies they swear, “And I will be hostile to the people and will plan whatever evil I can against them,” Aristotle Politics 5.1310a

Suppress the spread of info/knowledge "Prohibiting schools and other gatherings connected with learning, and doing everything to ensure that people are as ignorant of one another as possible, since knowledge tends to give rise to mutual trust." -Aristotle Politics Bk V Ch11

Philosophy = thinkers

Because you have to use your brain

Another question is how did data analytics get tossed into this heap?

Nothing, but Ohio has been seriously fucked up for a long time.

Disgraceful.

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

the philosophy course I took at college in the early 90's had a large section on ethics. I'm sure that's why.

It teaches people to think about thinking. MAGA can't succeed when people think

Well, Philosophy IS very "thinky ", so that must be why.

Don’t know about enrollment at U of Toledo, but maybe there aren’t a lot of students enrolled in Philosophy these days, and that’s why it’s on the chopping block.

That's what I wondered. It looks to me like they threw in a few subjects they wanted to cancel anyway. Languages are often cancelled - though it would seem Spanish should be last. Is Toledo under particular financial pressure (apart from DeWine's new censorship)?

You are correct. This screenshot is from the Univ. of Toledo website. SB1 "requires universities to eliminate undergraduate programs that have conferred fewer than five degrees annually over any three-year period."

It's a search for meaning, and is therefore at odds with everything Trump does.

The "love of wisdom" in ancient Greek? C'mon, that speaks for itself.

Watch the enrollment go down.

Ohio's getting dumber, if that's possible

We need more journalists demanding to know the rationale behind these bizarre and specific cuts to education and research, and who specifically the agenda is actually coming from.

DEI is a pretext for axing humanities. There is material in philosophy that could be labeled as DEI by MAGA. Anything that asks people to think critically is suspicious to them. Back to my first point, thought, a lot of universities are having low enrollment in the programs that were listed.

You have got to be kidding…