Posted on 11/20/2015 3:36:07 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica
The racially charged protests that have roiled 23 universities from Yale to the University of Missouri in recent weeks reached Princeton on Wednesday.
Members of the Black Justice League left their classes and occupied historic Nassau Hall, which houses the Princeton administration's offices. They demanded that officials acknowledge the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson - who was president of Princeton before becoming president of the United States and expunge his name from anything named after him. They further demanded "cultural competency training" for anyone teaching at Princeton, courses on the "history of marginalized people," and a designated public space for the exclusive use of black students.
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It was perhaps inevitable that the progressive protesters would eventually start demanding that progressive icons be airbrushed out of history. It is particularly difficult for Democrats and liberals to give up Wilson, who has long been honored for promoting progressive causes such as the Federal Reserve Act and the progressive income tax. Wilson was the first major progressive hero to advocate scrapping the "checks and balances" view of the Constitution. "All that progressives ask or desire is permission - in an era when 'development,' 'evolution' is the scientific word - to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle."
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This is pretty cool, he sources something I posted back in early 2012 - The text of the eugenic law that Wilson signed into law as governor.
Bookmarked
I despise Wilson and everything about him, but I feel the same way about efforts to throw him down the Memory Hole as I do about the same efforts to erase the Confederate flag.
Both are repellent actions. We should remember Wilson for the terrible damage he has done to this country from a legislative perspective, and we should remember the Confederate flag for the valor and the principles of the men who fought under it.
To erase them because we don’t like them is Stalinist.
We need to keep Wilson’s socialist legacy alive as a warning to future generations.
that is pretty cool. Now i have to read the whole thing :)
Didn’t MLK beat on a prostitute once?
how many street signs (in horrible neighborhoods) is he on?
tear em down!!!
oh btw, listen up all you black men, you do know that ISIS is trying to kill all of us while you whine like b....es about nonsense.
I thought you ghetto boys were so tough.
Turns out you’re just soft, sensitive daisies.
McCarthy never attempted, EVER, to inhibit anyone's free speech and political freedom. He simply thought that people beholden to the enemy of our country shouldn't be allowed to serve in sensitive government posts. He never said they should not be allowed to be citizens, he never said they couldn't work for a living, and he certainly didn't think they should be thrown in jail for being communists or communist sympathizers.
But he didn't think they should have been given clearance to work in the State Department or the Military.
Exactly.
got through as much as i could without throwing up.
Sterilization of the feeble minded? wouldn’t that include all liberals.
God, these black people cry and cry and cry like b....es. Jesus. Little @#$@#$ing girls.
I KNOW one of your ancestors out there did something bad to one of my Italian ancestors, so I claim your property.
Makes as much sense as their nonsense.
Grow the @#$@$# up!!!!! life is tough all over and you live in the best country in the world. If you hate it so much go the @#$@#$ back to wherever the @#$@$# backwards pit you came from in Africa. ‘
BTW, what are the ancestors of the Revolutionary war due? Going by this measure, everything.
Woodrow Wilson was a skunk. But you can’t just erase the past. Instead, how about teaching a little real history?
Bkmrk.
Sooner or later one of these schools is going to tell the idiots “shut up and get to class or you’ll be expelled”
I want his portrait at Princeton to stay up.
The left should not be allowed to hide from the truth of their progressive hero.
I want him to stay as a perpetual reminder of the truth of progressivism.
That would require critical thinking skills.
Just about everything “is racist” now.
please go after the Democrat Party, snowflakes, for its has a racist history and helped create the KKK!!!
“We need to keep Wilson’s socialist legacy alive as a warning to future generations.”
While throwing away symbols of the Confederacy? Forget it.
What goes around comes around.
I am with you on this.
These efforts to hide the past for any reason are abominable. I hate it. We aren’t the bloody Communists.
Yet.
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