Posted on 05/28/2016 5:56:08 AM PDT by C19fan
During his 18 years as president of Lebanon Valley College during the middle of the past century, Clyde Lynch led the tiny Pennsylvania liberal arts institution through the tribulations of the Great Depression and World War II, then raised $550,000 to build a new gymnasium before he died in 1950. In gratitude, college trustees named that new building after him.
Neither Lynch nor those trustees could have predicted there would come a day when students would demand that his name be stripped from the Lynch Memorial Hall because the word lynch has racial overtones. But that day did come.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Except for you honky-a$$ white-cracker Christian domestic terrorists.
At an earlier time in history, nutters like this would have been marginalized into that closet where they logically belong. Now, however, they are riding this wave of Ultra-hyper-sensitivity about anything that can threaten their comfort zone. Actually, that are reverting to age and throwing tantrums.
What is bad is that NO ONE is curbing their ‘enthusiasm’ but instead they find themselves making the news-cycle and finding encouragement from their peers and sympathizers. Academia is emasculated (LITERALLY) and replaced with rule-followers handed down by the Mommy State. I know that the pendulum will swing back but it will be ugly when it does!
Next they will be going after the millions of “Smiths” since that is short for “Blacksmith”.
Oh, and then there are the slaveholders Washington, Jefferson, Jackson—all those names must be abolished.
Maybe we will only avoiding offending the easily offending by calling everybody numbers—but of course the number 2 would have to be abolished as well because they signifies a monogamous relationship—bad, bad, bad. :-(
wow, Nina “Kneepads” Burleigh, I haven’t seen her name in quite a few years......
Very nugatory.
We swear that it will not be in cursive.
And gang, unless something is done with these liberal tyrants, its only going to get worse...MUCH WORSE!
BILL WHITTLE WITH 5 MINUTES OF THAT MOST RARE OF RARE COMMODITIES: SANITY!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUY5YXjSr20
BE CERTAIN TO HEAR THE WARNING AT THE VERY END!
PLEASE SHARE
It is not about speech, it is about control. Let them decide what is offensive once, and suddenly they crown themselves gatekeepers of speech.
OMG is Newsweek making a play for the millions and millions of people who are traditional Americans?
YES. I would cheerfully buy a magazine that reflected MY values and beliefs over those of liberal elite establishment types.
OMG is Newsweek making a play for the millions and millions of people who are traditional Americans?
YES. I would cheerfully buy a magazine that reflected MY values and beliefs over those of liberal elite establishment types. Go for it Nina Burleigh - you could save an industry.
“...a generation that hates speech.” It’s also a generation that hates thought and thinking.
Nina Burleigh reflects American values?
bump
“Are you saying you support Lynch mobs? “
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Of course-—there isn’t a decent tree left in the area.
:-)
This entire PC thing has gotten completely out of control.
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