Posted on 04/06/2016 11:09:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He recently wrote an article titled "The hypocrisy behind the student renaming craze." Students, often with the blessing of faculty, have discovered that names for campus buildings and holidays do not always fit politically correct standards for race, class and sex.
Stanford students have demanded the renaming of buildings, malls and streets bearing the name of the recently canonized Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan priest who was often unkind to American Indians. Harvard Law School is getting rid of its seal because it bears the coat of arms of the Royalls, a slave-owning family. This renaming craze is widespread and includes dozens of colleges and universities, including Amherst, Georgetown, Princeton, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley. The students have decided that some politically incorrect people from centuries ago are bad. Other politically incorrect people are not quite so bad if they were at least sometimes liberal; their names can stay.
San Diego State University students are not demanding that the school eliminate its nickname, "Aztecs," even though the Aztecs enslaved and slaughtered tens of thousands of people from tribes they conquered -- often ripping out the hearts of living victims. Should UC Berkeley students and faculty demand the renaming of Warren Hall, named after California Attorney General Earl Warren, who instigated the wartime internment of tens of thousands of innocent Japanese-American citizens? UC Berkeley students and faculty might consider renaming their Cesar E. Chavez Student Center. Chavez sent his thug lieutenants down to California's southern border to use violence to prevent job-seeking Mexican immigrants from entering the United States. President Woodrow Wilson was a racist who, among other racist acts, segregated civil service jobs. Should Princeton University rename its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs plus rename its Woodrow Wilson fellowship program?
Most universities have a women's studies program. Part of their agenda is to make sure men learn that "no" means "no" and condemn any form of sexual assault. Should campus feminists make clear that former President Bill Clinton, a womanizer and exploiter of women, is unwelcome on any campus? Should they also protest any appearance by his enabler, Hillary Clinton, who helped demonize her husband's female accusers by cracking down on "bimbo eruptions"?
Recently, Brown University changed its Columbus Day celebration to Indigenous People's Day. By the way, many cities are following suit. There may be a problem. According to publications such as Lawrence H. Keeley's "War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage" and Steven A. LeBlanc and Katherine E. Register's "Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage," we may have to rethink just how noble and peaceful American Indians were prior to Christopher Columbus. American Indians waged brutal tribal wars long before Europeans showed up. The evidence is especially strong in the American Southwest, where archaeologists have found numerous skeletons with projectile points embedded in them and other marks of violence. Comanche Indians were responsible for some of the most brutal slaughters in the history of Western America.
Our military has a number of deadly aircraft named with what the nation's leftist might consider racial slights, such as the Comanche, Apache, Iroquois, Kiowa, Lakota and the more peaceful Mescalero. Should they be renamed? Our military might also be seen as disrespecting the rights and dignity of animals. Should military death-dealing aircraft named after peace-loving animals -- such as the Eagle, Falcon, Raptor, Cobra and Dolphin -- be renamed? Renaming deadly aircraft might receive a sympathetic ear from our politically correct secretary of defense, Ashton Carter.
Victor Davis Hanson says that changing history through renaming is nothing new. Back in the Roman days, the practice was called damnatio memoriae, a Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory." It was practiced when the Romans wanted to erase the memory of people they deemed dishonorable; it was as if they had never existed.
if the wacko kids keep it up and rename everything to the best PC names, they will have erased the entire country leaving them stateless ...
Why does the photo show Georgetown’s Healy Hall?
Healy was approx. 1/4 black, and was America’s first “black” PhD and President of a major university. In the 1870’s no less!
The social-justice warriors ought to love that building!
Future conversation:
“Hi, I’m from State Farm 23.”
“Whew, it’s cold up there. When I attended Instructional Camp 22 in District 47 it was that cold, too, especially in Building 117.”
Maybe they should research what happened to the original accusers in the Salem witch trials and about those that started the French Revolution. Those that come after often turn their venom on those that started the whole mess.
What basis does Walter Williams have for saying that Father Serra was “often unkind” to the California Indians?
The sublimation of individualism for the sake of the state in the name of the good for the people is a wet dream of all totalitarians.
What? Building 117 is were the furnaces are - they are running day and night to clean up with the demand. If they are cold, then either they’ve run out of product or the workers became the product again - either way we’ll have to get replacement snowflakes up there quickly!
“[Saint] Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan priest who was often unkind to American Indians.”
What does that mean?
Not to mention what happened to Bernie’s hero’s early supporters ... by the millions ...
How about changing names that are REALLY offensive——Like Grand Tetons, and Whorekill creek. Also there are several creeks that have branches known as Ni@@er Lick.
Altho I’m sure that no matter what something is named, we could find someone who is offended, or finds it objectionable.
And that sums up why these idiots are both willfully ignorant and soon to be stateless and shortly after that very dead as their revolution proceeds without the baggage.
One must break a few eggs to make an omelette.
All words offend me. Please stop using words.
Something only Lenin could say
It has been attributed to Mao, but Lenin or Stalin could just as easily uttered it. All monsters.
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The description says: Georgetown University Washington DC Founded by John Carroll in 1789, Georgetown University is more than 200 years old and is actually the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the United States.
The description of the above picture says: Georgetown University Healy Hall Healy Hall is the historic flagship building at the main campus of Georgetown University.
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In trying to bring his religion to the Native Americans sometimes led to clashes with his own government. He clashed with Spanish authorities over the way soldiers treated the native peoples. While he advocated on behalf of native peoples, Serra also sought to correct them when they broke the rules as well. He supported the use of corporal punishment for offenses.
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From the
Junipero Serra Biography Missionary, Saint (c. 1713–c. 1784)
There are idiots who are going to hate on him because he was European and he was there, in California.
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