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Yale snowflakes offended Benjamin Franklin is going to be named for a new college, Yale speak for dorm. Snowflakes object to him because he a Dead White Male and one timed owed slaves. The little Snowflakes are ignorant Franklin freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. The reason Yale is using Franklin, who had no connection to Yale, was the white male who donated $250 MM to build the dorms requested one of the dorms be named after Franklin. The other person Murray checked off two out of the four letters in LGBT.
1 posted on 10/20/2016 6:11:26 AM PDT by C19fan
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Given how many kids cannot get into college or select the program that gives them the most financial assistance, to be able to say “not that one, I don’t like the name” is the ultimate petty luxury.


2 posted on 10/20/2016 6:22:56 AM PDT by tbw2
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..students who were both confused....

An understatement.


3 posted on 10/20/2016 6:28:40 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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Under the shadow of a yearlong debate over the name of Calhoun College, the...

Why are they objecting to a college being named after a black lawyer? Algonquin J. Calhoun, esq., for you younger folks who never heard the radio show or saw the TV series, was the lawyer on the old Amos n' Andy show!

4 posted on 10/20/2016 7:02:54 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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Wow. Times have changed since I was in college.

How weak these young people are.


5 posted on 10/20/2016 7:08:55 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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