Posted on 11/16/2017 5:26:00 AM PST by C19fan
Students are demanding university bosses change the name of a halls of residence because of its links to former Prime Minister William Gladstone and his association with the slave trade. The Roscoe and Gladstone building at Liverpool University was partly named after the Liberal politician, whose family wealth was built on slavery in the 19th century.
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Nothing says ‘First World problems in 2017’ like obsessing over the name of a university hall. Truly these young, privileged students live in the best time to be alive in current human history.
Students at that university know nothing.
For example, the iPhone is manufactured by what amounts to slave labor with precious materials mined by slaves (such as cobalt and tantalum).
Their hipster Che tee shirts come from Honduras or Haiti where they are manufactured by people living in dirt floor hovels and making pennies per hour.
It's the same with almost everything they cherish in their materialistic consumerist lives. It is something they disdain in the general populace yet they are oblivious to the depths of their own immersion.
Tell ‘em that the rename will be considered right after Muslims are forced to change their philosophy on slavery, women, religion, and....OK...EVERYTHING.
The king in da norf!
Where have all the adults gone?
mohammed was a slave-owner, all public monuments/memorials MUST be torn down now!
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