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I'm OK with most PC positions, simply because they're usually trying to make a good point, albeit one carried a mite too far, but this one provides the slippery slope to 'cancel' virtually anyone they want, since no one is perfect. I don't know anyone who can stand that kind of scrutiny. Sheeesh!
Raoul Wallenberg High not on the list; he'd be tough find fault with I suspect
Prior to preceding Rudy Chapa to Hammond High School by a year or two, Jean Shepherd attended Warren G Harding Elementary. He always referred to the school by Harding's full name.
Prior to preceding Rudy Chapa to Hammond High School by a year or two, Jean Shepherd attended Warren G Harding Elementary. He always referred to the school by Harding's full name.
Mine was Moses Y Beach (started the Associated Press) Elementary and no one called it anything but that.
I'll withhold my conclusion and criticism until I see how many of the 44 school names actually get changed, which were changed, and what they're changed to. The list of 44 is only a starting point which will get narrowed down when they can't get enough of the decision-makers to agree to them.
We had to salute Stonewall Jackson’s statue at VMI when I was a freshman (now a defunct practice). I think it was supposed to imbue us with a sense of southern pride and history. But all it taught me was that Jackson was a very weird dude.
The cadets all hated his guts and called him “Tom Fool.” He had this goofball teaching method of just reciting the textbook verbatim, was a hypochondriac, he believed posture kept his organs “balanced,” rode horses with one arm up for blood flow, and constantly sucked on lemons.
UC Berkeley removed the names of 'racist' figures from two of its buildings
The names from LeConte Hall and Barrows Hall were removed Wednesday, according to a statement from university chancellor Carol Christ. This comes after a formal review process found the buildings' namesakes had values not consistent with those of the university, the school said.
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