[reaganaut1]

There are hardly any statues of Asians at our universities, which must explain why they get bad grades and drop out. /s

[\/\/ayne]

A statue of Mao Zedong on the campus of Fudan University

[ClearCase_guy]

I think higher education is a bubble. It needs to burst. Anything which highlights this silliness and uselessness of higher education is fine with me.

Some career fields need people to have advanced education.
Most jobs do not. On the job training is sufficient.

[robowombat]

“Why are they here? What do they have in common? Number one: none of them have any affiliation to Duke University or the Duke family. Number two: they were all proponents of white supremacy. Robert E. Lee was an extremely cruel slave owner; Thomas Jefferson also owned a ton of slaves, but he was supposedly “less cruel;” Sydney Lanier was the least bad because he didn’t own any slaves—he was just a white [man] in the Confederate army.”

These people are both vile and stupid. Lee owned few if any slaves in his entire lifetime. Sidney Lanier is (or used to be) hailed as one of America's greatest literary voices. Ralph waldo Emerson regularly repeated hi ‘Ode to the Confederate Dead’ at his public readings. Those who wish to dishonor their or others noble ancestors are themselves evil and merit only contempt.

[CogitoPatriot]

The foolishness and seditious idiocy that we see at our colleges is something worth fighting against. We need to consider a different and I believe more effective approach than just complaining...dragging the trustees into the daylight and forcing them to deal. For instance, at this link: https://trustees.duke.edu/board-trustees-2018-2019 you can find the trustees for Duke. While the monument issue may not rise to the level of some of the more egregious problems we have seen (denial of conservatives the right of free speech, denial of freedom of religion etc.), you can see from the link who these people are. They and others at colleges across the country have been in the shadows too long. Time to out them and have them deal with what’s going on at their universities. At many colleges, these guys have the power to discipline and sometimes, fire the college president. I believe this is the approach we now need to consider. And while I’m on a roll here, let me put on the table of our national discourse something else that needs to happen to turn academia around - to ultimately purge it of the loony leftist 3rd world egg head bed-wetters who are indoctrinating our kids....tenure has to go.

[Altura Ct.]

The longer we allow this to go on the worse it will be. It won’t stop unless we make it stop. They want nothing less than a complete purge of anything white they deem offensive and complete destruction of the West. It won’t stop with the Confederacy or even with the likes of Washington or Jefferson but any white leader whom they care to target particularly any prior to 1965 although anything current day is also game.

There is only one way to stop this but that will require whites to gain a political voice as whites. Not sure whites have it in them anymore to do that even if it means the left destroys all that our forefathers fought and died for.

[gnickgnack2]

I am reminded of a cartoon I saw in a 60’s-era Playboy of a man and his son by a statue of a group of people. “There are no great men, son, only great committees.”