Posted on 11/15/2014 3:38:42 PM PST by grundle
Environmentalists say they’ve moved past their 19th century patron saint John Muir because he represents the monied, white privilege that continues to haunt the environmental movement to this day, the Los Angeles Times reports.
In an effort to connect more with Latinos and African Americans, some environmentalists are considering ditching Muir as their intellectual godfather. Environmentalists say that while they respect his ideas, they represent rich, Anglo-Saxon values that likely alienate minority communities.
“Muir’s legacy has to go,” Jon Christensen, a historian at the University of California in Los Angeles’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability, told the Times. “It’s just not useful anymore.”
“The conservation movement reflects the legacy of John Muir, and its influence on a certain demographic — older and white — and that’s a problem,” Christensen said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
**” But the real culprit, imo, are the white (both male and female) elitist rulers of our major media outlets and institutions of higher learning - also known as our colleges and universities.
They are bent on eliminating any evidence of American history whatsoever, for some reason.”**
That plan was implemented throughout the West by the left generations ago, and the legislation for most countries was passed during the 1960s.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s.
In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960.
In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin.
After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
Environmentalists say they’ve moved past their 19th century patron saint John Muir because he represents the monied, white privilege that continues to haunt the environmental movement to this day... his ideas... represent rich, Anglo-Saxon values that likely alienate minority communities. “Muir’s legacy has to go,” Jon Christensen, a historian at the University of California in Los Angeles’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability, told the Times. “It’s just not useful anymore. The conservation movement reflects the legacy of John Muir, and its influence on a certain demographic — older and white — and that’s a problem,” Christensen said.
Sorry guys, but environmentalism is a luxury only rich white people can afford, so you’re stuck with ‘em.
Uhhh...
Jon Christenson, UCLA:
This is that same photo with the Whites removed:
Muir understood the need to harvest timber to keep forests productive. Patrick Moore who (co) founded Greenpeace agreed.
CHRISTenson? Better change his last name.
To be replaced by Al Gore who isn't a rich white guy...never mind...
Al Gore?
"The Zebra Killings occurred in the San Francisco bay area between 1972 and 1974 and left 71 people dead.
They were dubbed the Zebra Killings because of the radio channel used by the police investigating the case (channel Z).
The name would take on a more sinister meaning as it became apparent that a group of blacks was systematically stalking
and killing whites simply because of the color of their skin."
(Does Etic Holder want to talk about this in his "erank discussion about race?)
Back in 1981 I visited with one of those “rich, white conservationists”, a Texan who had bought a huge ranch in north central Kenya. He had his own crew of wildlife rangers to protect the elephants & rhinos on his spread. The problem was that they had done such a good job that he had more elephants & rhino than the land could reasonably support.
He offered his surplus animals to the Kenya government to restock the game parks. Kenya replied that they could not protect the animals from poachers - “Thanks, but no thanks.”
He was one of those of “a certain demographic — older and white — ...just not useful anymore.”
“The only time econuts have been de-muir.”
Well done!!!
This...isn’t...satire, is it?
” Institute of Environment and Sustainability
Why not just call it what it is? -Karl Marx, Agenda 21 Institute of transformation to Communism.
What are these “Anglo-Saxon values” that alienate minorities?
Have Asians, Hispanics and Africans done better with the environment in Beijing, Mexico City, and Lagos?
The commits are crawling out from under their rock. Courtesy of A.N.S.W.E.R., They have been trying to link environmental issues with racism for many years.
Years ago, I had a kid show up at my door asking me to sign a petition to protect a local lake from 'development'. I knew the lake they were talking about and even remembered when it wasn't a lake... it was a just a man made lake.
I told the kid that and he went off like a rocket screaming that I wanted dirty water, dirty air and all the crap they put on people. He really went unhinged.
He didn't scare me in the least, but my teen age daughters were in the house with a bunch of their friends, a couple of who were really big ass 'gear head' type of boys. They heard this guy screaming at me and came outside and asked 'Is this guy bothering you dad?"
You should have seen that eco-winnie scramble away. It was funny as hell. Those boys scared the living 'bio-mass' out of him.
Latinos and blacks don’t give a shit about trees because they live in concrete, you 50 IQ eco-fascist apes.
Wanted: Gay, Hispanic, African-American environmentalist.
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