Posted on 08/08/2016 7:29:44 AM PDT by detective
The Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout has announced two of three historic paintings depicting interactions between white traders and First Nations people are to be removed from public view because of their potentially "harmful effect" on students and other viewers.
The paintings, which were commissioned under the Works Progress Administration and painted by artist Cal Peters in 1935, can be found in the University's Harvey Hall, a building currently undergoing major renovations. In preparation for the Hall's grand re-opening this fall, the paintings were to be restored by university art students under the direction of their professors. The restoration work, funded by the Wisconsin Historical Society, began back in 2013.
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Now the university has ordered them removed.
Political correctness has reached the level of insanity.
If you bury it deep enough, and lie about it all the more, our history will have never existed.
If anybody is being stereotyped it is the French fur trader who is stupid enough to stand up in a canoe. No Native American would ever do that.
Washington standing up in a row boat while crossing the Delaware is one thing, but a canoe?
Th lttr (censored)offnds m. It’s RACISM!
Ironic that the greatest success that these failed, Neolithic cultures ever rise to is the attacks on a successful, competent culture that has actually invented stuff.
If not for the civilizing influence of the Western man these dullards would still be scraping and eating tree bark as their medicine.
If not for the corrosive effect of liberalism these fire water drinkers would be laughed out of town for their ludicrous demands.
In this case, I agree with the university.
They should have more modern and realistic portrayal of the Indians.
They should have a painting of an Indian walking around with 50 ballots and a Democrat Party operative handing the Indian money.
Is “First Nations People” the new Indian PC term?
First Nations people
Is “First Nations people” the politically correct term for American Indians? From the context that what I figured “First Nations” means.
“University’s Diversity Leadership Team (DLT) “ So you have a team patrolling the school in search of outrage?
No. It's the about 20 years old PC term for Injuns ...
What you say is correct, but it is not really the primitive cultures which are doing the attacking. They are mere pawns being used by the progressive Left to achieve their aims. The Left's fetishization of Blacks, Indians, Hispanics, Gays or whatever is a tactic to bring down the social structures of civilized societies by dividing their constituent peoples into warring factions. These societies can then be replaced with a marxist utopia ruled by the leftist elite.
University Chancellor Bob Meyer later came out as a metrosexual transgender who likes to wear women's underwear for his jihadi Moslem lovers... /s
Censorship is Hate.
Stop the hate.
I look at the painting here and just say “Huh?”
isn’t that Lizzie Warren in the back of the ‘First People’ canoe...?
That would make them “FN People”, so it may not stick. I prefer “Pre-Columbus People” - PC People. But I can’t keep up with the latest non-offensive terms. I’ve pretty much concluded that a white guy is wrong no matter what he says.
I think white guys need to start taking offense. “Who you calling ‘white’? My arms are darker than Obama’s...”
Yes.
They came here from China, so they can’t be “Native Americans”.
This is just part of their fighting retreat.
Did you know that they are “Sovereign Nations” within our borders?
They dance back-and-forth between being “Sovereign Nations” and citizens of states and our nation depending on which one can get them more money from the honkies.
“Fetishism” is a great word!
I take your comment to mean that this demographic has been weaponized and is now a tool of destruction of the left, just like black people have been weaponized and are now a tool of destruction of the left.
That ban would include the Minnesota flag.
So who is really the first nation? More like the last nation before the arrival of white settlers.
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