Posted on 02/13/2017 4:49:38 AM PST by Daffynition
In a tweet Sunday morning, Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera said he resigned from his position as an associate fellow of Calhoun College, a day after Yale announced that it would rename the college in honor of Grace Hopper GRD ’34.
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Good for him!
I wonder why Grace Hopper never supporter transgender rights though /
OHMYGOSH I wondered how things could any crazier. But when Gerald Rivera is the ONLY person talking sense on an issue, weird has reached a whole new level.
The globalist invisible hand is no different from ISIS in this regard. Erase history, erase cultural identity, replace it with a new set of values for those whose identities are being erased. The Civil War and slavery are an important part of who we are as a nation. As awful as those events were, there are positives that came from it. Why don't we embrace those positives while understanding and studying the full spectrum of events and people's lives?
That would require individuals becoming important enough to have inalienable rights. To a progressive, the individual is nothing more than a tool of the revolution--and remember, the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
I happened to see this segment.
Now, if Fox News would only ask for Geraldo’s resignation, I would be a lot happier.
I’m surprised Geraldo wasn’t “all in” for Yale’s name-change decision.
Yale needs to really change its own name too.
Elihu Yale was a slave trader, owned slaves and massacred indians....
Grace Hopper headed the teams in the Navy that produced the first compilers for computer languages: COBOL and FORTRAN. It is not unreasonable to honor her.
The ant and the Grace Hopper.
Great accomplishments for sure and I don't dismiss them with this comment: I thought the Eli's were usually anti military too. So, I guess being a slave holder rates worse in their hierarchy of ethical offenses?
Where is the Left’s outrage at the fact that nearly every federal building in West Virginia is named after a former KKK Kleagle? Oh, that is right. He was a Democrat. I guess Calhoun wasn’t.
When an Admiral asked why there was so much delay when communicating through a satellite, she would get out one of her "nanoseconds" and explain that there were many nanoseconds up to the satellite and many more to get back down again.
Let me see if I can find a YouTube of her talk.
Here she is on Letterman. The link is cued up to the "nanosecond" schick, but the entire interview is worth watching.
https://youtu.be/1-vcErOPofQ?t=266
I may be mistaken, but I think I recall watching a 16mm movie of her give a lecture (including the nanosecond bit) when I was in USAF Tech School in 1978.
But it dishonors her to do it as part of a PC putsch.
It sends the ugly message that she is only being treated as a token, when in fact she deserves to be recognized on her own merits.
I wonder if their was some finincial Gift from the Calhoun Family to Yale to name the College after him?
If so I would demand the money back with interest
I’m against political correctness. I think the trend of renaming everything is Orwellian and dangerous in that no one from the past can live up to modern morality. Having said that, I don’t mind the name of John Calhoun — and Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson, for that matter — being taken off of university and other buildings. Calhoun isn’t just a prominent historical figure who happened to own slaves, like Washington and Jefferson. He actively promoted slavery to the point of secession. If one side effect of this PC madness of removing names from buildings means that he and a bunch of other Southern Democrat racists and secessionists are put back into obscurity, that’s a good thing. Conservatives should not reflexively defend people like him or Davis or Wilson.
As a COBOL programmer, I support this move.
agreed
And what do the snowflakes think of that?
RADM Grace Hopper is a woman that deserves some recognition, but it’s just stupid BLM-pandering to change the name of the school. At least they didn’t change it to MLK college. Now if Fox could only convince Jerry Rivers to just go away all would be good!
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