Posted on 10/14/2015 4:40:47 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Thomas Jefferson recently came under attack by University of Missouri (Mizzou) students who want a statue of the founding father removed from their campus because it makes them feel oppressed.
Via Campus Reform:
Students at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) have repeatedly covered a statue of Thomas Jefferson with post-it notes that include insults like, Racist, Rapist, Abuser, Sexist, and Slave Owner.
The statue, located on the east side of the Francis Quadrangle, has been covered in post-it notes several times even after some students removed the notes.
The Missourian, Mizzous on-campus newspaper, reported that the statue was a gift from the Jefferson Club, which consists of a board of trustees and donors. The club donated the statue in 2000 to commemorate Jefferson and the history of Mizzou.
According to The Missourian, grad student Maxwell Little created a petition in August which said The Thomas Jefferson statue that sits on the quad of the University of Missouri campus delivers a nonverbal code that affects him emotionally and psychologically. The petition says the statue must be removed in order to project a progressive environment.
While the petition gained little support, Maxwell teamed with several students to create the hashtag #PostYourStateOfMind to engage people in a critical conversation about sexual assault and racism.
Bryant Hill, another student involved in the creation of the initiative said in an interview with The Missourian, that they werent trying to completely shove that down anybodys throat, but just the idea of open dialogue and becoming more knowledgeable about the situation is important.
Littles petition talks about everything you might expect Jeffersons slave ownership, his views about how abolition would create chaos and, yes, Sally Hemings arguing that the universitys embrace of the statue equates tacit support for rape, slavery and oppression.
Removing Jeffersons statue alone will not eliminate the racial problems we face in America today, but it will help cure the emotional and psychological strain of history, the petition argues.
What the conversation about the emotional and psychological strain of history would be like today if Jefferson and other men like him had never existed on this continent, we probably dont want to imagine.
I am terribly offended (I mean seriously) if I see any picture OR hear the voices of Lyndon Johnson, Tip O’Neill, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill or Hillary Clinton, Biden, Obama, Boehner, McConnell, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Megyn Kelly, just about any public school superintendent, most public school principals, etc., ad nauseum. So, can we get their pictures taken down?
I consider this the “Theme Song” for all the loud-mouthed, frail-minded idiots like little Maxwell who waste their lives searching for reasons to be “offended” and “hurt”:
Rats of Reality
by The Circle jerks
Fading vision of a life unlived
You don’t regret a single thing you did
Don’t wanna push the button
Don’t wanna be dead
Just got to feed the creature inside your head
Chorus:
No no no you got no brains
Inside that thick skull
The rats of reality have eaten them all
One more hit down the left field wall
Can’t see what’s real or fantasy at all
Still have your morals
But they’re hidden today
It doesn’t matter, your brain’s in decay
[chorus]
Fought the real ones, illusions too
So depressed, don’t know what to do
Forget about angels, devils as well
There’s only you and all the rats in hell
[chorus]
The colleges of today have very little to offer. Obama has ruined America and saddled these kids with mountains of debt that insure they will be wards of the government forever. To get more of these kids in the door they have things like mixed dorm bathrooms - for the teenage boys and and lesbian studies about female orgasms for the girls. Nobody learns anything useful but the greedy bastards that run the schools keep raising tuition and working about 100 days a year with summers and every holiday off.
Yes. But he got the idea from George Washington.
The presence on the earth of affirmative action losers like Maxwell offends me to the point of aggressive reaction.
Exactly. They want to replace it with a statue of Lenin. We all know how non - aggressive he was.
Speaking of racists...
Until it said slave owner I thought this was an article about Bill Clinton.
From one of my FB friends yesterday who is a young conservative:
Today I was taught that the colonists and patriots of the 1770s did not own their own weapons, and that the weapons were owned by the colonies: therefore, the Second Amendment was not setup to protect the private ownership of firearms.
Ha! What a bunch of wienies.
How about some of them spend a couple months on Paris Island... or some of them get a real job that involves a shovel... or some of the take the passie out of their mouth and enter the real world, with real men and real women that are not perpetually butthurt by every little thing.
I think part of this is because the ‘everyone gets a trophy’ and ‘you’re special’ generation is coming of age and the result is everything they see hurts their feelings and they were never taught to deal with it. They were never taught that real life SUCKS and if a statue makes them go into therapy then they are gonna have a hard time when real life smacks them in the face.
Nobody will be there to tell them they are supper-dupper special and give them a trophy and a lolipop.
We already have too many stuck on stupid people in Missouri
Just like ISIS, tearing down every scrap of history
Take it down....and replace it with one even LARGER.
No no no you’re way off.
Thomas Jefferson helped carve the turkey for the first halloween then he moved to a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Communist indoctrination of the grade schools is working. This is proof. PC run amok.
Then go to another university that doesn't cause you such emotional trauma.
Maybe UVa?
The University of Virginia (UVA, U.Va. or Virginia), is a research university founded by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and located in Charlottesville, Virginia.
We’re going to have a civil war over the history and direction of this country soon.
The feelings crowd will undeniably not understand how to react and be thoroughly offended by the outcome.
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