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U. of Rhode Island to Remove WWII Murals Due to Lack of Diversity
Breitbart ^ | 09/09/2020 | Tom Ciccotta

Posted on 09/09/2020 1:39:17 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe

The University of Rhode Island recently announced plans to remove two murals depicting the events of World War II due to their lack of diversity. The decision was prompted after students complained that the mural was not compatible with the university’s values of inclusivity. According to the school’s Vice President of Student Affairs, “Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”

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KEYWORDS: art; bidensfault; cancelculture; education; idiocy; kathycollins; nikkisfault; obamasfault; rhodeisland; taliban; waronart; ww2
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To: House Atreides

It was not the military that separated the races in WWII. It was Woodrow Wilson in WWI who put back into place the division of races in the military. Even with that, many blacks served in Europe in the first war.

Many blacks served in WWII in both theaters of war in all of the services. Montfort Marines, Tuskegee Airmen, any of those ring a bell?


61 posted on 09/09/2020 2:27:59 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Tench_Coxe
Here's one.


62 posted on 09/09/2020 2:28:38 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Because we all know WW2 was actually won by the Lesbian, Black, Disabled, Gay, Trannie, soldiers.

And before anyone jumps on “Black” the number of black combat troops in WW2 was tiny compared to the total number.


63 posted on 09/09/2020 2:33:52 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Lysandru

Colleges weren’t very diverse at that time. That’s just the way it was.


64 posted on 09/09/2020 2:39:23 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Tench_Coxe
On youtube if you play numerous songs popular during the Vietnam war, it was customary to see American troops.

I recently clicked on a CCR song (don't remember which) and this time it was a bunch of gooks marching into Saigon.

Commie fags are going to flip everything upside down in the next decade or so. Unless Americans (not the RAT fags, antifa, Bowels Loosened Movement, libtardarians, etc) have an epiphany.

65 posted on 09/09/2020 2:40:52 PM PDT by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: Professional

You know what? Since America is so racist (maybe so in parts of America in that era),why didn’t we put all of the “diversity” in the front lines and waves like the Imperial Japs and Soviets? We could have saved so many white people.


66 posted on 09/09/2020 2:42:52 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BenLurkin

Long past time.


67 posted on 09/09/2020 2:45:10 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Tench_Coxe
“Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”

What?! Did the whiny brats expect the soldiers to jump down off the murals and attack them?


68 posted on 09/09/2020 2:48:47 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Fight the Left - the communists - not our own.)
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To: Tench_Coxe; radu; The Mayor; detective; SkyDancer; mosaicwolf; bitt; Tilted Irish Kilt; ...

I highly recommend everyone contact the President of this shit hole university.

President of the Univ of RI

401.874.2444


69 posted on 09/09/2020 2:49:08 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Tench_Coxe
"the persons painted and depicted on the wall are predominantly white and that does not represent who our institution is today”

It represents the men (men??? most of them less than 21 years old) who walked directly into machine gun fire and to whom you and your institution OWE EVERYTHING today, you sick moron!

70 posted on 09/09/2020 2:51:52 PM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of GOD and the Angels!)
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To: BenLurkin

Lol. Was that painted by a 12 year old?


71 posted on 09/09/2020 2:52:06 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Just home many blacks served in WWII from Rhode Island? You can be almost sure that the memorial was representative of the demographics of RI at the time it was erected. But that really isn’t the issue. These leftist bastards are trying to erase and rewrite history.


72 posted on 09/09/2020 2:54:46 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The school loser vice president should be canned immediately. if these snowflake loser students are uncomfortable...kick them out also. What a bunch of weak, pathetic, anti-American nitwits.


73 posted on 09/09/2020 2:56:41 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Yes remember the smithsonian Ebola gay hoopla in 1994 (basically saying USA were the militant aggressors)? Enough people called bs on it that they had to backpedal. Today they probably get away with it.


74 posted on 09/09/2020 2:58:07 PM PDT by vmpolesov
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To: vmpolesov

I even hear some saying, that all the Japanese were trying to do was to get Western Colonialism out of Asia.


75 posted on 09/09/2020 3:00:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: proxy_user

Not that many Asians, unless you count allies.
The Japanese were in just one RCT (Regimental Combat Team), and the Filipinos had two (not counting the Scouts in the Islands), but they had to be reduced to one for lack of replacements. The US raised over 300 RCT’s. IIRC the Chinese were integrated but there werent many of them.

There were lots more “Hispanics”, and they were always in integrated units. Some National Guard units were very hispanic. The old folks in Manila say the 8th Cavalry (1st Cavalry Division) in 1945 mostly spoke Spanish, and they liked that. Then there was the New Mexico National Guard 200th Artillery (antiaircraft), which was captured at Bataan. Most of its men were New Mexico “Spanish”, or Indians. Etc.

There were also @50,000 Mexican volunteers that crossed the border to do so. IIRC they could just walk across and enlist. Most I think ended up in the infantry.

Now, Rhode Island would have had very few non-whites in the 1940s, and any black soldiers would have been segregated and very unlikely to be in combat units.


76 posted on 09/09/2020 3:00:33 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: Tench_Coxe

These people just need to kill themselves. Really.


77 posted on 09/09/2020 3:03:47 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: Tench_Coxe
“Some of our students have even shared with us they didn’t feel comfortable sitting in that space.”

Nothing a good punch in that face wouldn't solve. These damn snowflakes need to be taught a lesson about who fought and died for their freedom to run leftist mouths.

78 posted on 09/09/2020 3:05:09 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Interesting, is it not, that a good many universities indicate students who are in no way qualified to attend a real university by listening to their idiotic demands.


79 posted on 09/09/2020 3:07:04 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: GreyFriar

How much “diversity” do you suppose they’d find in the cemeteries at Normandy, the Punchbowl, or Bastogne?


80 posted on 09/09/2020 3:08:51 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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