Posted on 06/27/2020 12:32:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Princeton University is removing President Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and a residential college due to the former president’s “racist thinking.”
“The trustees conclude that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must firmly stand against racism in all its forms,” announced Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber on Saturday.
“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time,” added Eisgruber. “He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice.”
The board voted on Friday to change the names of both the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Wilson College.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will now be named “The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.”
As for Wilson College, Eisgruber claimed that the university was already planning on closing the college, but now the school will instead “accelerate retirement of the name” so that students won’t have to “identify with the name of a racist president for the next two years.”
Now, Wilson College will instead be called “First College.”
“Wilson’s segregationist policies make him an especially inappropriate namesake for a public policy school,” Eisgruber pointed out in his statement.
“When a university names a school of public policy for a political leader, it inevitably suggests that the honoree is a model for students who study at the school,” continued the university president.
“This searing moment in American history has made clear that Wilson’s racism disqualifies him from that role,” added Eisgruber of the former Democrat president.
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If you have an open mind, I have great confidence in my ability to convince you. Have you read Herbert Hoover’s book on ww2?
It’s called Freedom Betrayed. It was suppressed for decades.
I’ll check it out.
Anything done yet with WW’s birthplace in Staunton, VA?
WW enshrined Jim Crow at the Federal level of governance
re-segregated the military
A Southern Democrat and a stone racist.
Now this is one Democrat President who’s name deserves to be removed from buildings. WW was a virulent racist that essentially re-segrigated the US military and in his stupid insistence to so severely punish and humiliate Germany following WWI which led in part, to the rise Nazism in the early 1930s. He was a true a$$ and a shining forerunner of today’s Democrs
“The stupidity is endless.”
This movement will end but you’re stupidity will live on in different forms.
Who knows? 100 years forward they may be removing the names of all these activists today because they had unforgivable fashion sense. (or any other inane reason)
Apologies, my sentence in #67 got cut off and made it sound awkward.
This movement will end but you’re right, stupidity will live on in different forms.
Can we get rid of the United Nations now?????????????
Many of Germany’s wars were stupid. The wars against Rome were pretty good, though, considering the circumstances. ;)
Pinkerton: Learning the Right Lesson of World War I on Its 100th Anniversary
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/11/11/pinkerton-learning-the-right-lesson-of-world-war-i-on-its-100th-anniversary/
Review: The Yanks are Coming! A Military History of the United States in World War I
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/10/19/review-the-yanks-are-coming/
American entry into World War I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_entry_into_World_War_I
Chronology of warfare between the Romans and Germanic tribes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_Wars
Dang nice of the students to pay for all of these virtue signaling changes. Or are they stupid enough to think it’s all free?
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