In the case at Vanderbilt the university refunded the current value of the $50,000 gift that had funded the building of “Confederate Hall” which was determined to be $1.2 million, today.
I wonder if in the case at Clemson there would be Tillman descendants would would insist upon that treatment if as an early trustee he provided key funding?
These situations are complicated. It’s one thing to deny history, it’s another to honor someone who - even in the time in which he lived - was exceptionally awful.
Now that they started that revisionist slippery slope, how come they are not changing Yale’s name as well?
Apparently Yale is named after some hard core imperialist, who should be offensive to most snowflakes. I mean.. it is just discriminatory to change the name of one building but to leave Yale University’s name the same. What gives?
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