[Daffynition]

“Been an honor but intolerant insistence on political correctness is lame,” Rivera tweeted.

[PghBaldy]

Good for him!

[grania]

been an honor but intolerant insistence on political correctness is lame

OHMYGOSH I wondered how things could any crazier. But when Gerald Rivera is the ONLY person talking sense on an issue, weird has reached a whole new level.

The globalist invisible hand is no different from ISIS in this regard. Erase history, erase cultural identity, replace it with a new set of values for those whose identities are being erased. The Civil War and slavery are an important part of who we are as a nation. As awful as those events were, there are positives that came from it. Why don't we embrace those positives while understanding and studying the full spectrum of events and people's lives?

[onyx]

I happened to see this segment.

Now, if Fox News would only ask for Geraldo’s resignation, I would be a lot happier.

[moovova]

I’m surprised Geraldo wasn’t “all in” for Yale’s name-change decision.

[2banana]

Yale needs to really change its own name too.

Elihu Yale was a slave trader, owned slaves and massacred indians....

[Anima Mundi]

The ant and the Grace Hopper.

[Lawgvr1955]

Where is the Left’s outrage at the fact that nearly every federal building in West Virginia is named after a former KKK Kleagle? Oh, that is right. He was a Democrat. I guess Calhoun wasn’t.

[Yo-Yo]

Grace Hopper made the talk circuit rounds in the early 80s carrying around her bundle of approximately 18" long wires she called "nanoseconds."

When an Admiral asked why there was so much delay when communicating through a satellite, she would get out one of her "nanoseconds" and explain that there were many nanoseconds up to the satellite and many more to get back down again.

Let me see if I can find a YouTube of her talk.

Here she is on Letterman. The link is cued up to the "nanosecond" schick, but the entire interview is worth watching.

https://youtu.be/1-vcErOPofQ?t=266

I may be mistaken, but I think I recall watching a 16mm movie of her give a lecture (including the nanosecond bit) when I was in USAF Tech School in 1978.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I’m against political correctness. I think the trend of renaming everything is Orwellian and dangerous in that no one from the past can live up to modern morality. Having said that, I don’t mind the name of John Calhoun — and Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson, for that matter — being taken off of university and other buildings. Calhoun isn’t just a prominent historical figure who happened to own slaves, like Washington and Jefferson. He actively promoted slavery to the point of secession. If one side effect of this PC madness of removing names from buildings means that he and a bunch of other Southern Democrat racists and secessionists are put back into obscurity, that’s a good thing. Conservatives should not reflexively defend people like him or Davis or Wilson.

[AppyPappy]

As a COBOL programmer, I support this move.

[Afterguard]

RADM Grace Hopper is a woman that deserves some recognition, but it’s just stupid BLM-pandering to change the name of the school. At least they didn’t change it to MLK college. Now if Fox could only convince Jerry Rivers to just go away all would be good!

[Unam Sanctam]

Wow, Geraldo did something right! The left’s passion for rewriting history and making historical unpersons, as Orwell warned about, should be resisted. And I’m an old Yankee with no brief for the South or the Confederacy.

[chuckee]

Narcissistic Geraldo is just outraged that they did not change the name from Calhoun College to Rivera College.

[MUDDOG]

Here's to Yale.

[Verginius Rufus]

King County, Washington, was originally named for a 19th-century politician but a few years ago the folks in Seattle renamed it for Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yale could have followed the same path--instead of it being named for John C. Calhoun, it could have been renamed for Algonquian J. Calhoun.