This statue of the Buddha in Afghanistan was decreed un-Islamic in 2001 and its destruction ordered.
Posted on 12/18/2015 7:46:16 AM PST by C19fan
Students at Oxford University have succeeded in persuading Oriel College to remove a plaque in honour of Cecil Rhodes, an imperialist the university has deemed racist. The College has also applied to the local council for permission to remove a statue of him from their grounds.
Earlier this year, the University of Cape Town was forced to remove a statue of Rhodes from their campus, after students attacked the statue repeatedly with excrement and wrapped it in black bin bags.
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Is it any consolation that the current ruler not only received a proper English education, but earned a PhD?
Ask Hillary if her Rhodes Scholar husband will give back the money.
That might as well tear the whole school down as most of it was built and funded by the fortunes obtained through all manner of non-PC activities over the past almost 800 years!
Demand that the administration, faculty & directors and their spouses/girlfriends/mistresses send all their diamonds to South Africa to be dumped down the deepest Kimberly Pipe. After all, these diamonds were torn from the heart of Mother Earth using Exploited African labor!
/sarc....maybe
The civilized world was appalled, and rightly so.
Every time some snowflake gets offended by Cecil Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Robert E. Lee, etc., that ancient statue should be referenced.
Oh,Oh! I don't, think so, he seems to be a good fit with Rhodes. Funny history of the first Black President.
“Funny history of the first Black President.”
Actually, Clinton was the second “First Black President”.
The first “First Black President” was Jimmy Carter.
The third “First Black President” was Barack Obama.
All of them did incredible harm to the U.S.A.
I’m waiting on West Virginia to remove that Klu Klux Klan recruiter’s name from every public entity in the state.
Bill Clinton is now the proud recipient of a Bishop Tutu scholarship . . .
Why not rename it the Cynthia Rhodes Scholarship?? Bill always liked Dirty Dancing . . .
Silliness has been fashionable on campus forever, but this Red Guards-style purge is becoming nonsensical.
The end goal is that eventually they will deem our Founding Fathers “racists” because they held slaves for a period of time. Never mind that many of them freed their slaves before (Washington) or at their deaths, in their wills (Jefferson). They will demonize the Founding Fathers in order to demonize everything they stood for. From the Washington monument to the names of all the cities to Mount Rushmore, picture the reshaping of America under leftist “political correctness.”
He RECEIVED a PhD. Whether or not he EARNED it is a matter of speculation.
And you are a racist for making such a suggestion! :->
Just shut the college down, it no longer functions anymore as a place of higher learning. Let the bed wetters find a nice safe insane asylum to prance about in.
All the owners of th Encyclopedia Britannica will receive new pages and a razor blade. New editions will come bound in loose-leaf.
This statue of the Buddha in Afghanistan was decreed un-Islamic in 2001 and its destruction ordered.
Will the Birch Society now elevate Rhodes into a hero?
Nah, Jimmuh was the first whack President, he whacked the whole world up along the side of the head with his policies.
If I teach your youth to dishonor and destroy your forefathers and your history, I destroy your culture.
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