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Northern states taking down vestiges of racism, intolerance
AP ^ | 5/20/18

Posted on 05/22/2018 2:05:55 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

Edited on 05/22/2018 3:18:54 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Woodrow Wilson?


21 posted on 05/22/2018 2:22:39 PM PDT by gasport
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To: Altura Ct.
And at the University of Michigan, regents have voted to strip a former school president’s name from a campus science building because he lent his scientific expertise to groups that were in favor of selective reproduction, also known as eugenics.

If his name was Planned Parenthood, I fully agree with this.

22 posted on 05/22/2018 2:23:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That day will roll around soon. That’s the ultimate goal, to hold this country up to an impossible standard that no country in history has ever lived up to. It’s an imaginary land of perfection and the target keeps moving. We see who their heroes and icons are, and we see that they’re actually worse than historical figures in the United States which is the world’s best example of attempts to be fair and just to all citizens. But no, the goal is to erode the foundation of this country, our Founders and founding documents underpinning our laws and system of governance.

They don’t give two chits about this crap in reality, it’s all surface, otherwise they’d be denouncing Che Guevara, an actual virulent racist with copious quotes to back up that claim. But he’s a star, he’s photogenic, he sells t-shirts to budding young heads full of mush as well as those who are old enough to know better but choose not to. There are several on this forum, you’ll find them arguing the Union side vehemently but calling anyone who dares to point out the hypocrisy of that “Democrats” as if they’re not.


23 posted on 05/22/2018 2:23:40 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Altura Ct.
Every time somebody gives a college more money than an earlier donor some history comes down with the old plaque on the building that's been renamed.

So far, it sounds like statues aren't being destroyed, just relocated, so history is getting moved somewhere else.

Yale University in Connecticut said last year that it would change the name of a residential college that honors John C. Calhoun, a 19th century alumnus and former U.S. vice president, who was an ardent supporter of slavery.

That's a touchy question. Calhoun is a lot better known than whoever replaces him. For years, people asked why Yale had a college named after John C. Calhoun. Once the name is changed, nobody will bother or care.

And if Yale does have a history that is entangled with slavery and racism, wouldn't you want that to be apparent up front, rather than whitewashing it?

Yale recently named another dorm after Benjamin Franklin. He had no connection with Yale, but the money came from Franklin Templeton Investments. Funny thing, Franklin was also a slaveowner for much of his life.

24 posted on 05/22/2018 2:24:20 PM PDT by x
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It could happen.

New Orleans deleted the name of George Washington School a number of years ago, because he owned slaves. It was renamed after a black person.

No word on whether deleting the name of the school helped either academic achievement or self esteem of the black students at that school.


25 posted on 05/22/2018 2:24:23 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Altura Ct.
"a European settler with a weapon in his hand towering over a Native American that some say celebrates white supremacy"

Even left-wing Wikipedia won't cotton to that phrase, which they call "weasel words." Name and shame.

26 posted on 05/22/2018 2:26:19 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Altura Ct.

Just Googled that “Josh Hasler” to see if he looked like what I expected him to look like...CONFIRMED!!! A soy boy on steroids, if that’s possible!;)


27 posted on 05/22/2018 2:26:27 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Altura Ct.
If I knew where to get one I'd get myself a Stars & Bars bumper sticker for my car just to pi$$ off the locals.But living here in the Gay State I'd probably have my tires slashed pretty quickly and I could even come to personal harm.

Most of my fellow Gay Staters aren't very broad minded...if you catch my drift.

For the record...the "Gay State" is Massachusetts,as explained on my profile page.

28 posted on 05/22/2018 2:26:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Altura Ct.
And at the University of Michigan, regents have voted to strip a former school president’s name from a campus science building because he lent his scientific expertise to groups that were in favor of selective reproduction, also known as eugenics.

Planned Parenthood?

[We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

Margaret Sanger, “Plan for Peace” from Birth Control Review (April 1932, pp. 107-108)

29 posted on 05/22/2018 2:27:37 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Altura Ct.
May, 2008

"...MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation..."

30 posted on 05/22/2018 2:30:09 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Altura Ct.

English settlers to Canada and the US in a relative manner, generally behaved themselves. They met with and tried to forge alliances with the native nations.

It was in Spanish possessions where the white man ran wild raping at will pretty much.


31 posted on 05/22/2018 2:33:20 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Altura Ct.

Are they taking Robert Sheets Byrd (D-KKK)’s name off of things yet and if not why not?


32 posted on 05/22/2018 2:37:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Altura Ct.

For all those who like meaningless and petty gestures.

And there are obviously a great many such people around nowadays.


33 posted on 05/22/2018 2:43:05 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Altura Ct.

If these leftists are getting rid of intolerance, why do they still show their own intolerance?

Shouldn’t they be following by example?


34 posted on 05/22/2018 2:43:46 PM PDT by setha (England has chosen the path of a quotarchy - rule by quotas.)
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To: I want the USA back

“They begin by destroying the icons.”

This type of war started about 20 years ago here in Minnesota. It started at the high school level when white liberals objected to high school mascot names like “Indians” or Warriors”. Yeah, there were some high profile Indians from the rez’s up north who objected too - but this was a urban metro-area driven initiative from white liberals - the same white liberals who have objected to Confederate statues and monuments.

So with the Department of Education behind them, these white liberals were able to browbeat and pester schools into erasing “racist” vestiges from state high schools.

You are 100% correct about moving the goalposts. It has happened and is continuing to happen.


35 posted on 05/22/2018 2:45:20 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It will happen unless we stop it. If the criteria is race and ‘racism’. Then most of our prominent American ancestors are in the crosshairs along with a huge portion of our history. Heck anything before 1965 is suspect and even today Trump and GOP are ‘racist’ and beneficiaries of ‘white privledge’. It will be interesting when push comes to shove if whites have the backbone nescessary?


36 posted on 05/22/2018 2:46:01 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Gay State Conservative

Around the time all this crap really started (2015 I guess) I saw a fair number of Stars and Bars on both houses and trucks around Plymouth county. None recently.


37 posted on 05/22/2018 2:49:36 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd ( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Most likely that is the driving force behind it all as they have all the money and power to covertly do this with the help of the useful idiot elitists.


38 posted on 05/22/2018 2:53:15 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (I'd rather be a Trump deplorable then a Hillary corruptible.)
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To: Altura Ct.

How Stalinesque.


39 posted on 05/22/2018 2:55:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
I spend more time in,and near,Cambridge than in Brockton.
40 posted on 05/22/2018 2:55:22 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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