#CancelYale

[Songbird]

Whether it happens or not ... this is a big moment.

Change the name of Yale? Really? That demand has some big ****ing balls.

Are we at 10 years yet, @Alma?

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Whether it happens or not ... this is a big moment.

Change the name of Yale? Really? That demand has some big ****ing balls.

Are we at 10 years yet, @Alma?

teh media

 

[Spartan Squad]

Whether it happens or not ... this is a big moment.

Change the name of Yale? Really? That demand has some big ****ing balls.

Are we at 10 years yet, @Alma?

This isn't real. It's a right wing asshole (who was once banned by Twitter, btw) trying to stir **** up.

 

[Songbird]

It's now real. Everything's on the table now in the brave new #superwoke world of #Cancel(insert offending racists)

 

[Spartan Squad]

Can we just cancel right wing trolls?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Moses Cleaveland screwed over the Native Americans in the Western Reserve by giving Mohawks and Senecas just $1,200 in goods, then gave some other natives beads and whiskey to pacify them.

So Cleveland State needs to get its ass kicked.

 

[Songbird]

Rollie Massamino was their punishment.

 

[Songbird]

Francis Scott Key can come down but Yale can't? The reckoning is at hand.

Did Johnny Harvard own slaves?

What about Jedediah Dartmouth and Bobby Brown?

 

[Azrael]

not to harsh anyone's postmodern libertarian cancel culture buzz, but Yale's been pretty responsive to these issues the last few years.

Yale Drops Case Against Worker Who Smashed Window Depicting Slaves

Calhoun Who? Yale Drops Name of Slavery Advocate for Computer Pioneer

 

[Azrael]

Understanding Harvard’s ties to slavery

Harvard publicly acknowledges historical ties to slavery

 

[Azrael]

https://slavery.princeton.edu/about/overview

 

[Azrael]

most of the Ivy League is going to have to deal with this, and lots of other old line, eastern establishment schools too.

 

[Songbird]

That's super terrific and all but it's a new day in American cancel culture.

Joe Rogan's on the chopping block right now but he's also got a ton of fans.

 

[Songbird]

#CancelSmith ... how DARE they not allow trans men!

Smith College. ... Its undergraduate programs are open to women – including trans women – and non-binary and otherwise gender-non-conforming people; however, it does not admit trans men, although students who transition while at Smith are welcome to continue their education as a Smith student.​

 

[garrow]

Cancel Trump University! Oh, wait......

 

[Azrael]

probably easier just to pay reparations

 

[Batman]

not to harsh anyone's postmodern libertarian cancel culture buzz, but Yale's been pretty responsive to these issues the last few years.

Yale Drops Case Against Worker Who Smashed Window Depicting Slaves

Calhoun Who? Yale Drops Name of Slavery Advocate for Computer Pioneer

Does that even matter anymore?

 

[Azrael]

Does that even matter anymore?

Not necessarily, but these schools have been aware of these problems for years. As have the activists who've been pressing them on it.

So none of this is taking anyone by surprise, except people who haven't been paying attention.

This isn't just about pulling down statues and plaques and changing a few names. The merely symbolic stuff won't cut it now.

There has to be some real institutional change at these places, including, as I said, devoting some of these huge endowments to reparations. Maybe proportional to what the school earned from slavery. Maybe in the form of free tuition in perpetuity for black American students.

I don't know, but the time has long passed for the gestural or the cosmetic .

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Cornell is the only Ivy school that opened after the Civil War (barely, in 1865). That may be why they're considered the league's Wazzu or Arkansas.

 

[I Should Coco]

Just because ... a deep cut from Jefferson Starship.



RIP, Paul Kantner.