Progressivism and Racism

Townhall.com ^ | November 28, 2015 | John C. Goodman

[cripplecreek]

Woodrow Wilson's name prominently displayed at Princeton might actually be a helpful reminder of that fact.

That's the way I feel about it. In fact, racism is the least of the problems with Wilson and progressivism that need to have a light shined on them.

[ml/nj]

political prisoners by the thousands were harassed, beaten, spied upon, and thrown in jail simply for expressing private opinions; the national leader accused foreigners and immigrants of injecting treasonous "poison" into the American bloodstream; newspapers and magazines were shut down for criticizing the government;

But it was "Honest Abe" who did this first, not Wilson.

ML/NJ

[cowboyway]

“I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the black races which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man.”-—Abraham Lincoln

[cowboyway]

The Lincoln Memorial must go!

[ronnie raygun]

The fact is they will accept and make excuses for his racism for the sake of ideology as do Black lives matter who accepts the killing of blacks by blacks but not white on black

[Jim Noble]

the Princeton students demand the university, and the country, confront. We must listen to them

How absurd.

I was a student in the last round of "we must listen to the students".

We didn't know shit, and anybody who listened to us was an idiot.

[Dalberg-Acton]

“the tendency of people on the left to talk only to each other.”

No sane person would want to talk to them.

[cp124]

How about “White House”?

[Tupelo]

“How about “White House”?”

On January 20, 2017 the new president and her family should be moved into Blair House until the current White Hut is demolished and the land sterilized, then rebuilt.

[Migraine]

How about “White House”?

It's been rainbowed.

[abclily]

The marauding, terrorist students are racist. They hate themselves and are paid to rob and terrorize. Satan and his minions are loose on this earth.

[driftless2]

A person would like to select one of these outraged protesters "of color" (I despise that phrase) and ask them if they realize they're only at these elite institutions because of a rigged system that allowed them entry over more qualified people.

Obviously, none of these students grasp that basic fact. You would think they'd be grateful for a chance at a degree from an Ivy League school, but they're not. Incredibly enough, they think they're being discriminated against. They should be thrown out just for failing basic logic if not for their other actions.

Those students don't belong at Princeton or any other college. They're privileged people advanced artificially with no chance for success except as rabble-rousers or community organizers. Who else do we know with those qualifications?

[ecomcon]

The fact is they will accept and make excuses for his racism for the sake of ideology

100%. Ideology is religion to them, since they reject God.

[treetopsandroofs]

“The Lincoln Memorial must go!”

And the penny, of course, and the $5 bill.

This would make room for the leftists’ god.

[ichabod1]

Crime Happens.

[ichabod1]

Students pass through an institution. To allow the students of a particular year or era to define the institution is an offense against those who will come after. To have their say? Of course. To rule? Never. (me)

[ichabod1]

It always gets me that “person of color” is a favored term but “colored person” is a macroagression of the first degree.

[Kaslin]

If it’s painted purple, is purple racist? The whole thing is absurd imho

[beekay]

Egypt, Italy and most of Africa should be immediately removed from all maps as they either had or have slaves. Their mere presence on any map is offensive and insensitive./s