Professor puts Whites on Classical Pedestal

A Vassar college professor has this specialty:

Curtis Dozier is an internationally recognized expert on how extremists and hate groups invoke Greco-Roman antiquity to promote their politics.

He even has a book on the subject, where anyone who cites the Classics gets called a White supremacist. It gets a scathing review in (Jewish) Commentary magazine:

Curtis Dozier’s The White Pedestal is a godsend to white nationalists. If ever they needed a book to encourage the false impression that “white nationalism” simply means defending basic virtues and acknowledging obvious facts, this is it. ...

Unfortunately, Dozier believes “white nationalist thought” includes not just patently bigoted notions—e.g., “The white race is superior to all others”—but also completely defensible views—e.g., “Hierarchy is natural and desirable.” Each chapter argues that seemingly innocent admirers of Greece and Rome are trafficking in a mode of logic that “the far Right” also uses. ...

It is actually possible for educated people to know a lot about ancient Greece and Rome, to see even their heroes as flawed and their geniuses as limited, and still to wonder at their invaluable gifts to posterity. Most people naturally hope to preserve and cherish what’s best about the civilization they inherit. Curtis Dozier wants to convince them that they must either join him and his fellow travelers in “resisting and subverting the process that established ‘classics’ as a discipline in the first place,” or else abet the triumph of “white supremacy.” I can think of no better way to swell the ranks of actual, self-avowed racists than to force a choice between those two options. If Dozier really wants to know who’s burnishing the appeal of white nationalism, he should look within.