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Washington & Lee Professors Vote to Remove ‘Lee’ from School Name
Breitbart ^
| 07/07/20
| TOM CICCOTTA
Posted on 07/08/2020 5:49:33 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1
I love Satire......................
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:51:10 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: Enlightened1
Ponce de Leon ??? Oh the Irony .....
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:51:38 AM PDT
by
An.American.Expatriate
(Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
To: Enlightened1; MinuteGal
Next week, they’ll vote to remove “Washington.”
The new name will be “and.”
To: Enlightened1
The professors don’t own the school nor pay the bills.
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:52:08 AM PDT
by
chopperk
To: Enlightened1
There are too many Washington colleges and universities and he was a slave-owner as well. A large plantation slave-owner let us not forget.
So, if you are going to remove Lee, you need to remove Washington as well. Rename it say “Woke College.” Double dare you.
To: Enlightened1
All colleges should be renamed using a modified Dewey decimal system.
A liberal arts college could be 1000, the first one would be 1000.1. And so on.
I’m sure that will offend someone, so at some point, we’ll just have to shut them all down, and that would be the beginning of healing this country.
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:54:38 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: Enlightened1
Zoila Ponce de Leon, an assistant professor at the university, argued I demand this byatch be renamed. Ponce de Leon was on Columbus 2nd voyage, claimed Florida and Puerto Rico for Spain, and was PRs first governor!
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:54:49 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Red Badger
We feel like were going to end up on the wrong side of this as an institution and that it will harm us, Casey said. Everyone who was in that conversation feels that the best thing for our institution is to drop our affiliation with Lee.Talk about delusions of grandeur (or maybe delusions of adequacy)! History will take no note of these ciphers.
To: An.American.Expatriate
Ponce de Leon ??? Oh the Irony .....In more ways than you can count.
But, could we just say that wokeness starts at home; you know, the Biblical imprecation "first remove the log from your own eye."
Ol' Poncie here should go first.
To: Enlightened1
Then change the reference to Harry Lighthorse Lee, they won’t know the connection, they’re too ignorant of history, even the history professors.
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:55:29 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: Red Badger
After they realize the other guy owned slaves, too, they’ll change the school’s name to “& University”...
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:56:07 AM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(This space vacant until further notice in compliance with social distancing 'guidelines')
To: Enlightened1
What are they going to do with General Lee’s remains? Rebrand them unknown?
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:56:12 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
To: Enlightened1; All
Washington owned many times the slave Lee ever held and Lee shepherded a very difficult mass manumition act through the Va for the slaves from his father in laws plantation âArlingtonâ during the year 1861. There were well over a hundred slaves in the liberation package. Lee did this while being (a) commander of Virginia State ground forces, (b) attempting to coordinate scattered CSA forces in the primitive and nearly roadless country around Phillipi and Greenbrier.
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posted on
07/08/2020 5:59:10 AM PDT
by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: Enlightened1
Brandon Hasbrouck, an associate professor of law at the university, argued that his peers have not taken their fight for social justice far enough. Hasbrouck argued that the university should remove George Washingtons name as well.
—
Who didn’t see that demand coming next.
Chapter 11 University
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posted on
07/08/2020 6:00:42 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
To: Enlightened1
So are they going to tear down the Chapel and the Museum? How about digging up Traveller?
These people are despicable.
To: Enlightened1
Shameful. Lee did much to re-invigorate the college during his tenure as president of the university after the war. Regardless of his Civil War deeds, his postwar work for the school helped save it from failure.
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posted on
07/08/2020 6:02:11 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Does the left like anything about America?)
To: Enlightened1
I could get with this program if the "Lee" was not so much removed, but retired - basically, in awe of his duty to Virginia and his accomplishments, prowess as a General.
After all, "7" is retired forever from Yankee uniforms, in reverence to Babe Ruth. [All MLB retired numbers]
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posted on
07/08/2020 6:07:27 AM PDT
by
C210N
To: Enlightened1
The faculty of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, voted on Monday to remove the name of Robert E. Lee from the universitys name.Are these cowardly professors who also happen to be historic illiterates? Do they know the history of Washington & Lee University? Do they know the history and accomplishments of George Washington? ...of Robert E. Lee?
What will they accomplish by erasing history? Of what are they afraid? How will they cave in next?
I recommend that each and every one of them retire and get out; perhaps they should join BLM who also want to erase our country.
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posted on
07/08/2020 6:09:43 AM PDT
by
olezip
To: AndyJackson
There are too many Washington colleges and universities and he was a slave-owner as well. A large plantation slave-owner let us not forget.Washington also had a distillery and, horror of horrors, had his labor force net migrating fish in the Potomac River.
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posted on
07/08/2020 6:10:38 AM PDT
by
ptsal
(Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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