Lenny Leonard wrote:
funny stuff wrote:
Boy this could actually be a fun summer if we get to the point that these anti free speech libs eat their own. Ba bye Yale!!
Libs?
Taft
Ford
Bush I
Bush II
Where do Republicans think their candidates get their degrees?
So basically libs.
Maybe this post was created to stick it to the libs, or to shine a light on perceived hypocrisy, but renaming Yale is a discussion worth having. I say this as a Yale alum.
There is a problem with judging historical people and actions through the lens of today's morality. People do need to be judged within their times. Thomas Jefferson of course owned slaves, so today we would consider him a monster. But at the time he spoke out against the international slave trade and advocated gradual emancipation of domestic slaves (thanks Wikipedia) so he would have been a more moderate voice among his contemporaries.
Ultimately we need to recognize that people are flawed. Any great man or woman is also going to have their shortcomings, so we need to consider the good and the bad, within that person's proper historical context, in order to decide if the great deeds outweigh the flaws enough to justify the continued honor we give them.
On balance maybe you could argue continuing to honor Jefferson . Confederate generals? No, what are their great deeds? Elihu Yale? I'd love to hear the arguments on both sides, but let's hear the argument.
They at least have to change the name.......Booker T. Washington University sounds about right.
former bulldog wrote:
Maybe this post was created to stick it to the libs, or to shine a light on perceived hypocrisy, but renaming Yale is a discussion worth having. I say this as a Yale alum.
There is a problem with judging historical people and actions through the lens of today's morality. People do need to be judged within their times. Thomas Jefferson of course owned slaves, so today we would consider him a monster. But at the time he spoke out against the international slave trade and advocated gradual emancipation of domestic slaves (thanks Wikipedia) so he would have been a more moderate voice among his contemporaries.
Ultimately we need to recognize that people are flawed. Any great man or woman is also going to have their shortcomings, so we need to consider the good and the bad, within that person's proper historical context, in order to decide if the great deeds outweigh the flaws enough to justify the continued honor we give them.
On balance maybe you could argue continuing to honor Jefferson . Confederate generals? No, what are their great deeds? Elihu Yale? I'd love to hear the arguments on both sides, but let's hear the argument.
A reasonable, measured response?! Either start hooting and throwing excrement, or hit the road, you!
Shouldn’t we be “cancelling” living dictators, tyrants and corrupt business tycoons to keep them from further oppressing the vulnerable? A leader of a white supremest group goes unscathed while the focus is on history. I see focusing on dead people as a distraction and less impactful at the present time.
Maybe this is still part of their dog and pony show, but on a campus tour years ago another prominent benefactor was also considered for naming the school—Jeremiah Dummer.
Never mind all this... why are people ignoring the fact that BEN FRANKLIN was slave trader???!!!
adjustments wrote:
and join the HBCU.
There is no such thing as "the HBCU." The acronym refers to historically black colleges and universities. Next time do your research if you want to make fun of people who care about racism.
Read the sentence and tell us why it doesn't make sense.
Yale should join the historically black colleges and universities.
Yale is a private school. Its not perfect but saying that Yale should be forced to change its name and be kicked out of its present conference is silly.
Who died and made any of us king?
Ford went to Michigan.
Lenny Leonard wrote:
funny stuff wrote:
Boy this could actually be a fun summer if we get to the point that these anti free speech libs eat their own. Ba bye Yale!!
Libs?
Taft
Ford
Bush I
Bush II
Where do Republicans think their candidates get their degrees?
Getting a degree from a university run by liberals does not make one a liberal.
run more and more wrote:
Read the sentence and tell us why it doesn't make sense.
Yale should join the historically black colleges and universities.
Join them doing what? “HBCU” isn’t an athletic conference or an organization; it’s a categorization that’s literally cannot apply to Yale because of, well, history. Seemed pretty self explanatory.
Has anyone pointed out that Dartmouth is named after the guy who authorized the Revolutionary War?
Dude sent British troops to Lex and Concord to kill civilians. And they did.
Brown Univ
Georgetown
George Washington Univ
Columbia
All must change their names NOW.
Plus no longer can use our $1 and $2 bills and dimes. FDR was a racist.
Total cost of every tuitions per year in the US is around 400 billion dollars.
1/10
It almost seems serious
Yale is full of privileged white hypocrites. Yes, some of color. But a large "minority"
go green wrote:
Has anyone pointed out that Dartmouth is named after the guy who authorized the Revolutionary War?
Dude sent British troops to Lex and Concord to kill civilians. And they did.
I guess as long as they killed white people, no one will have a problem with it. That seems to be the trend. Walking on eggshells here. Did I offend anyone today???