Posted on 06/27/2020 12:32:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Princeton University is removing President Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and a residential college due to the former president’s “racist thinking.”
“The trustees conclude that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must firmly stand against racism in all its forms,” announced Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber on Saturday.
“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time,” added Eisgruber. “He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice.”
The board voted on Friday to change the names of both the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Wilson College.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will now be named “The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.”
As for Wilson College, Eisgruber claimed that the university was already planning on closing the college, but now the school will instead “accelerate retirement of the name” so that students won’t have to “identify with the name of a racist president for the next two years.”
Now, Wilson College will instead be called “First College.”
“Wilson’s segregationist policies make him an especially inappropriate namesake for a public policy school,” Eisgruber pointed out in his statement.
“When a university names a school of public policy for a political leader, it inevitably suggests that the honoree is a model for students who study at the school,” continued the university president.
“This searing moment in American history has made clear that Wilson’s racism disqualifies him from that role,” added Eisgruber of the former Democrat president.
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You mean WOODROW WILSON THE DEMOCRAT???????
Princeton alumni need to withhold their donations.
Oh come on, Republicans and Democrats all were on board with doing that, it was War.
I am not going to Monday Morning Quarterback on that when I wasn’t there.
What if we go to war with China, do you think there won’t be plenty of Chinese here working for China to win?
Nope, not even close. WW was the most racist President we ever had.
Yep. Woodrow Wilson bridge has got to go.
“So is Eisgruber gonna tell us the Constitution don’t apply cuz the people who wrote it were “racist” in his view?”
Invalidating the Constitution has been the goal/plan of the Left for decades.
Yep, truly evil, but not as evil as FDR.
Courtesy of Brandeis and Baruch and Colonel House.
Sorry, I disagree with a lot of things FDR did, but I can’t see him as evil. Just can’t do it.
Andrew Jackson sez, "Hold my dueling pistol"
“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time,” added Eisgruber. “He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice.”
He was President of Princeton University before he became the New Jersey Governor and President of the United States.
To begin make *some* amends, Princeton University could change its name to Hetty Reckless University. (After New Jersey abolitionist and escaped slave Hetty Reckless).
Or just shut itself down, and let the campus return to nature.
Yes he was. They’re finally learning history
And anyone that his talent agency discovered!
George Orwell’s 1984 is coming true. This article reminds me of the “ministry of truth” where books and articles were altered to reflect the ideals of the party. History erased.
The old black and white movie made such an enormous impression on me as a young girl. It planted the seeds of my conservatism.
1984 has arrived.
Woodrow Wilson CREATED the Progressive movement within the Democrat party, and was a great advocate of One-World government. The 16th, 17th and 18th Amendments are ALL his, and the League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations, was forced upon the world, and perhaps would have been adopted even by the US, had he not fallen ill of a serious and disabling malady that essentially made his wife Acting President for the last year or so of his second term.
The leftists should be CELEBRATING the legacy of Woodrow Wilson. He made FDR possible.
If Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber believed in consistency regarding racist institutions, he would order that Princeton be burned to the ground and that he be hanged for leading a racist organization.
By this official act, Woodrow Wilson is really dead.
Geez, the morons actually found a legitimate target, considering that Wilson also let a bunch of Marxist terrorists into our country while he was in office.
However, sadly, this was probably more appeasement with little public input, either from the faculty, patrons, parents or student body.
“Good riddance to all things named after him.”
WW may have been the worst president ever pre-Obama. I hate that there are statues of him, but I think all existing monuments need to be protected. It’s history.
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