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Exclusive — University of Virginia Newspaper Calls to Remove Thomas Jefferson: ‘Buildings Must Be Renamed and Memorials Removed’
Breitbart ^ | 08/19/2022 | Breccan F. Thies

Posted on 08/19/2022 4:24:22 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The editorial board of the University of Virginia’s newspaper has called to remove references to University founder and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.

The University and the greater Charlottesville, Virginia, area in which it is located has taken it upon themselves to be defined not by academics, or history, or any other trait. Rather, those in charge of local government and University administration prefer to be defined by a single characteristic: the August 12, 2017, “Unite the Right” rally.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

The money-grubbers at Breitbart constantly feature clickbait like this from leftist *ssholes who are irrelevant.

Andrew Breitbart is rolling over in his grave. Breitbart established this website as an investigative news site, not some garbage blog to make the current Breitbart fools running the site rich.


41 posted on 08/19/2022 4:48:02 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do they want to chisel “Father of the University of Virginia” off his gravestone?


42 posted on 08/19/2022 4:49:11 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Attendance there is not compulsory. If you don’t like it’s name, go somewhere else!


43 posted on 08/19/2022 4:49:48 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

UVA Class of 1973: NO to this wokeness!


44 posted on 08/19/2022 4:53:55 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: Fai Mao

UVA needs to be more like Hillsdale in its Admissions.


45 posted on 08/19/2022 4:54:06 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All references to all imperfect people should be removed from the UVA campus.

They could then devote their studies to the only perfect one.


46 posted on 08/19/2022 4:54:36 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I went to law school there, and the association between TJ and UVA is, or at least was, rather unique. It was often referred to as "Mr. Jefferson's university" by students, faculty, alumni, etc.. So removing Jefferson's name is a bigger deal than would be removing the name of a famous alumni from most other schools.

Like most universities, it's controlled by the left, so I'll just laugh if this actually happens. Serves them right

47 posted on 08/19/2022 4:59:30 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe we should just close it down.


48 posted on 08/19/2022 5:07:22 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

God darn it all anyway!

It is time we start showing up on college campuses and protesting. Seriously!


49 posted on 08/19/2022 5:07:29 PM PDT by EBH ( 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We have to push back, very, very, very hard. Give and inch and 1000 miles is demanded. Give in to nothing, and start banning their icons (Stalin was a killer; the Bolsheviks were killers, Marx was a lazy unaccomplished but angry ‘white man’ with daddy issues).

They cannot be allowed to change even the littlest things moving forward. If you let them cancel history, they will rewrite it into an unrecognizable lie.


50 posted on 08/19/2022 5:11:03 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: EBH
It is time we start showing up on college campuses and protesting. Seriously!

. It's time we stop paying for our children to attend these places.

51 posted on 08/19/2022 5:12:38 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Da Coyote

You can thank Nimrata Randhawa for getting this ball rolling.

It’s not her history, so she didn’t care.


52 posted on 08/19/2022 5:13:45 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: frank ballenger

I don’t think he ever referred to Confederate generals as villains.


53 posted on 08/19/2022 5:15:25 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rename it “Senator Byrd” building built by KKK Building Co.


54 posted on 08/19/2022 5:19:49 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

given its racist founder

uva should be decertified defunded burned to the ground and the earth salted

that is how critical theory works

stop with the namby pamby we have to change the name

are you real commies or what?


55 posted on 08/19/2022 5:20:12 PM PDT by joshua c (where did my tagline go? if you see it please call someone else. i was tired of it.)
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To: Old Yeller

Close the place.


56 posted on 08/19/2022 5:22:04 PM PDT by databoss
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To: Neverlift

ha ha good one!

im stealin’ it


57 posted on 08/19/2022 5:22:34 PM PDT by joshua c (where did my tagline go? if you see it please call someone else. i was tired of it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The American Taliban.


58 posted on 08/19/2022 5:25:09 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President.)
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To: Old Yeller

That’s what all the men there have if they let this crap go. You are correct.


59 posted on 08/19/2022 5:27:08 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Right. I was hesitant for good reason. Should have done my usual searches and citation including author and date of source. I was wrong.

Brie Simpson, Fox News, June 21, 2020.
“Back then, “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver mocked the president for his grim prediction.

“So this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down,” Trump said at an August 2017 news conference on the protests that year in Charlottsville, Va., that sparked from the plans to remove some Confederate statues.

I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You really have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” Trump said. “


60 posted on 08/19/2022 5:29:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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