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Posted on 02/20/2023 2:06:52 PM PST by ChipMarne
This President’s Day, The College Fix remembers the presidential victims of cancel culture on college campuses.
The Fix has compiled examples of campus cancel culture attacking presidential monuments, statues, building names and supporters.
This data was collected from The Fix’s Campus Cancel Culture Database, which “chronicles and quantifies cancel culture’s influence on higher education, tracking its targets and noting its successes and failures.”
Mary Grabar, author of “Debunking The 1619 Project,” explained to The Fix that “there has been so much focus on the sins of our past leaders that anyone who comes up short of meeting the woke standards of perfection is to be condemned and canceled.”
While the examples go back to America’s first president, George Washington, recent presidents have also been targeted.
One instance featured a student who was disenrolled from a graduate program at the University of San Diego for his pro-Trump stance, while another included the firing of a law instructor who tweeted favorably of the former president.
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The irony is that I don’t see Woodrow Wilson’s name on this list. If there ever was a president who should be “cancelled” on the basis of promoting racism, its Wilson. The fact that Lincoln is on the list and Wilson isn’t tells you how vapid and doctrinaire this movement is.
Didn’t Woodrow Wilson have a screening of the movie “Birth of a Nation” in the White House?
Why would Millard Fillmore be found to be objectionable? IIRC, the man served only one term as president and he is not one that you mention commonly as Washington or Lincoln or Jefferson or more recent ones like GWB or Trump.
Yes, and he fired all of the minority Black postmasters in the southern states.
RE: Didn’t Woodrow Wilson have a screening of the movie “Birth of a Nation” in the White House?
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Yes. Historic and cherished moment at the time.
The Birth of a Nation was the first movie shown in the White House, in the East Room, on February 18, 1915. (An earlier movie, the Italian Cabiria (1914), was shown on the lawn.) It was attended by President Woodrow Wilson, members of his family, and members of his Cabinet. Director D.W. Griffith was there for the honor.
Millard Fillmore was instrumental in passing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Nixon presumably thought the holiday was for both Lincoln and Washington, but Lincoln never had a federal holiday in his honor.
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