Posted on 02/20/2017 2:42:18 PM PST by BBell
Not everyone is happy about Yale’s decision to rename Calhoun College from a slaveowner and white supremacist to a feminist icon, Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper. The loudest outcry comes not from anyone wishing to preserve history, but from the Yale Women’s Center, which claims that choosing a white woman ignores Yale’s history of slavery and perpetuates white supremacy.
The university organization is displeased that Yale chose the accomplished alumna and computer science pioneer instead of a woman of color. On Facebook (via Yale Daily News), the center said the choice of Hopper doesn’t reflect the issues and values raised by Yale students.
In the self-contradicting post, the center said that while they were “happy with the decision,” and hoped Hopper would inspire future generations of women in STEM education, it wasn’t good enough. They declared it an “act of whitewashing” that “silenced” student voices.
“We had hoped for a name change that acknowledged the years of activism by students of color and New Haven activists. We feel the decision to change the name from a white supremacist to a white woman, as amazing as she may be, is an act of whitewashing.”
It went on: “[T]he decision to rename the college after another white person seems like an attempt to end this discussion on the history of white supremacy and its active and continued role in this institution and on our campus.”
A PR person for the women’s center, Vicki Beizer, told the student newspaper that the administration let them down by ignoring names that would have “carried the dialogue further,” and that “renaming the college after a white woman doesn’t put the cork in the bottle.”
Members of the organization also published an op-ed for the Daily to argue that “white femininity has often been used as a tool to enforce racist and colonialist structures,” and that naming the college after Hopper was a “continuous perpetuation of white supremacy.”
Last year, the women’s center objected to a visit by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was set to lecture on “Islam and the West.” Ali, a Somali-born women’s rights activist and fierce critic of religious extremism, has faced blowback from social justice activists for being critical of political Islam.
The women’s center, along with several other student organizations, urged the university to disinvite Ali. They argued that she “does not hold the credentials” to speak as an authority on the religion despite being a scholar and researcher on political Islam.
The women’s center also urges the university to “immediately develop a protocol for making itself a sanctuary campus,” which would allow illegal immigrants to seek refuge at the university.
Give the buildings a number....
Careful of #1, #13, #666
They are literally losing their minds before our very eyes.
See, you can never appease someone who is in a state of constant struggle, so don’t try to appease such children.
More anti-White dreck.
DANG!
Ping.
This article reads like satire. I had to laugh while I read it.
The yale Admin must cave to the will of the progs......................
I would call it a state of constant lunacy.
What? Good Grief!
Well, Marxism is rather crazy, so there is that.
Maybe they should have named it Little Shirley Temple University. Fills their needs and can’t think of any one female less threatening.
red
Yale University is named for a slave trader…
Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was an American-born British merchant, philanthropist and slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor.[1]
Yeah, the cult of the professionally offended are offeneded by something that they deem offensive.
This is what happens when you have a bunch of coddled snowflakes who have never experienced the concept of having their pre-conceived leftist instilled notions challenged.
Cognitive dissonance? I believe that is the term.
Dealing with leftists and their snowflake spawn are like dealing with termites.
You hope you kill them off before they cause irreversible damage to the structure.
New name: Aunt Jemima Center for Excellence
Keep the original name and tell them to pound coarse sand in both openings!
This has become so very tiresome. If the schools don’t regrow some backbone, they may as well give every building a name written on white posterboard. Eventually, whatever name you choose these days, (or fail to choose) will ‘offend’ somebody somewhere somehow.
Don’t these idiots have anything useful to do with their time, rather than worrying about renaming buildings they barely think about? They are soooo stupid, one has to laugh, chuckle, even guffaw at their infantile efforts to be “PC”. I cannot imagine what kind of job they will secure after graduating Libtard U.
Why not Tubman College or Truth College?
Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth?
I hope that these kids make the people in charge miserable.
They should have left the building’s name alone in the first place——they are cowards.They deserve another hassle.
When did college students start giving orders to administration anyway?
.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.