Are you insulting teachers? All the ones I know have at least a Masters degree and several have doctorates. Your pathetic attempt at humor does not amuse me. Or have you forgotten I taught biology for a quarter century?
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.
So rename it the “Ruby Begonia College of Food Stamp Knowledge”
That's mighty funny rye chair!
Keep the name “Calhoun College” and tell all the SJWs to stuff it!!!!
After 8 years of a successful Trump administration, the entire Yale community will say “thank you”!!
Grace Hopper is a nerd queen!
Expel each and every student involved in this farce.
They could call it the “Moms Mabley Center for Excellence.”
The irony is Calhoun was a Lefty-a Democrat.
Yale just needs to do a better job making everyone happy.
The past couple of generations have grown up with a false sense of entitlement. Whack’em on the butt and move on.
The Alt left has taken out Flynn and Milo. Why should they stop?
If we are going to play this game, then we need to rename Yale University itself, which is named for Elihu Yale, a slave trader.
http://digitalhistories.yctl.org/2014/11/01/elihu-yale-was-a-slave-trader/
I love to see the lunatic left Nazis eating their own. Gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.
I doubt any of these pinheads had a clue who Grace Hopper was until they renamed the College.
Sign makers must be thrilled.
Hopper served her country. That alone would disqualify her in the eyes of the SJW’s.
the Yale women’s center miscontents must have bought into the misinformation that white Americans are dying out and so it’s ok to erase our culture. But I am happy to inform them, that America, an Anglo/Euro country that annually welcomes a smattering of races who want to become American, is still firmly, and will remain, a Caucasian country, one of the very few left in the world (making us the real minority).
Anyone who is white, is automatically a white supremacist to crazy people. Don’t give your hard earned money to crazy people.
They’ll teach.
Are you insulting teachers? All the ones I know have at least a Masters degree and several have doctorates. Your pathetic attempt at humor does not amuse me. Or have you forgotten I taught biology for a quarter century?
“You can please all of the people some of the time, and you can please some of the people all of the time, but...”
Oh, yes. They’re there. And congratulations as you seem like one who gets it.
Though the wife an I both worked a few years in high school, myself in baseball coaching, and we both testify that the teachers, by and large, are far loonier than their students.
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