[SeekAndFind]

Not only was Bishop Berkeley amenable to owning slaves, but he also had a very low opinion of the Native Americans in the colonies:

Ireland’s largest university took a stand on Berkeley last month, voting to expunge his name from its central library. The college’s researchers advocated for the decision, citing public documents showing that Berkeley openly advocated for owning, evangelizing and educating Native Americans, whom he characterized as inhumane, barbarous and savage.

[SeekAndFind]

It’s worth noting that Native Americans, who were still mostly in the Stone Age phase of human development, were indeed “inhumane, barbarous, and savage.” This is true of all Stone Age people. They engaged in constant low-level warfare against their enemies and, lacking the resources to hold POWs, had two choices if they prevailed in those wars: They could either slaughter or enslave their enemies. (For more on this, I highly recommend Steven Pinker’s enjoyable The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.)

Of course, Bishop Berkeley, immured in his early-Enlightenment Ivory tower, was unaware that his forebearers were no better. Indeed, Europe was still in the very slow process of temporarily emerging from its own barbarism. (WWII plunged it right back in.) It just had a head start over the Native Americans, so Europeans could convince themselves that they were culturally superior.

But back to that point that we were all once Stone Age people. That means that no society was free of the stain of slavery and prejudice. Moreover, leftists would do well to understand that what ended slavery wasn’t just a giant leap in morality; it was fossil fuel, which meant that the physical labor of animals and humans was no longer an integral part of a society moving beyond subsistence level survival.

[Rurudyne]

Are idiots Wokesters giving up all cotton clothes yet?

[PGR88]

But now, historians at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, have renewed scrutiny of records indicating that the city’s namesake

One could probably very easily screw with the crazy Berkeley leftists - come out in another 3 months and tell them his wife was named "Trump." Then come out in another 3 months and tell them Berkeley owned coal mines, etc....

Watch them go crazy

[Huskrrrr]

Ha-ha.

[far sider]

They should rename Berkeley as Durant. Rev. Henry Durant was the minister who founded the University of California in 1855 (Berkeley was the first campus). Durant founded UC as a Christian institution under “the pervading influence and spirit of the Christian religion.” Durant even picked the university’s motto, “Let There Be Light” from the Bible, Gen. 1:3.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Mohammed was a slave owner. Just sayin’....

[Dilbert San Diego]

They really need to change the name of Berkeley.

[bk1000]

Well, I say the Ohlone were interlopers to the ones here before them and owe restitution to some long forgotten tribe of savages. See how this works? Why do people continue to acquiesce to this nonsense? Does it somehow make them feel better about themselves to constantly apologize for their existence or for the behavior of some ancient ancestor? For the very life of me I don’t understand the self-loathing affluent liberal.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Oh good God.

I actually like this Schadenfreude in many ways. Including the Yankee-philes here.

Again, someone from the “NORTH” had slaves. Didn’t know Yankees allowed slavery, eh?

But onto the issue here. An Irish (the first of the aggrieved groups) man comes over and gets “enslaved people” (asinine word shell games from communists, again) and disparages people who were, indeed, largely inhumane.

Too bad.

Get over it. Too late now. Even your liberal ancestors (and yes, there WAS ancestry in our current thinking) saw fit to use this man. That should count for something, much as Yankee “Union” types saw fit to allow rebel “Confederate” monuments and naming.

[John Milner]

Looks like we need a mass “mostly peaceful” demonstration at UC Berkeley to include some mostly peaceful knocking down some liberal sacred cows.

[VanShuyten]

Eventually, this will hit Cincinnati, OH, Cicero, IL, and other places named after slave holders.

[Honest Nigerian]

openly advocated for owning, evangelizing and educating Native Americans, whom he characterized as inhumane, barbarous and savage.
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Sounds like what the teachers unions, the FBI and many universities say about white Christians.

[Salman]

Next up Washington DC?

[Vision]

They could always try growing up.

[NohSpinZone]

BAHAHAHAHA!!! The revolution eats its own; always does. We are now getting to that stage.

Depicted: the execution of Maximilien Robespierre