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re: Princeton Students Take Over President's Office
Posted on 11/19/15 at 7:35 am to trom83
Posted on 11/19/15 at 7:35 am to trom83
I find it interesting when folks living today try to put past figures "on trial" for the views and actions that they had back in their time. It is a very tricky thing to judge people from the past by the standards of today. Segregation was not only legal back then but widely accepted and practiced. And you can imagine, if the lens were reversed, how folks from that time would view us today. They would likely see us as being degenerate to the point of near barbarism for our acceptance of; same-sex marriage, abortion on demand, inter-racial marriage, pre-marital sex etc. So, I think that we should let the past be the past and just look to making a positive future in whatever way we can as it regards our personal sense of what a positive future is.
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Posted on 11/19/15 at 7:35 am to trom83
Did none of those stupid fricks tour tour that campus before deciding to go to school there?
Posted on 11/19/15 at 7:38 am to The Cool No 9
EVERYBODY born white in the South his (Wilson's) birth year was a racist. It was inescapable. I heard Shelby Foote say (specifically about folks from Mississippi in the 1920s, but it applies to Wilson's entire life experience as well) that everyone, White and Black was racist.
This post was edited on 11/19/15 at 7:40 am
Posted on 11/19/15 at 7:40 am to trom83
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“We demand a public conversation,” the demand says, “on the true role of freedom of speech and freedom of intellectual thought in a way that does not reinforce anti-Blackness and xenophobia.”
This isn't a conversation. It's calling people bigots and racists until you get your way. There is no discourse here.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 7:41 am to SabiDojo
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calling people bigots and racists until you get your way
That's what a conversation is. Dumb arse.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 7:57 am to AndyJ
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So a quick google search shows that Wilson wanted to allow the re-segregation of public offices (and sometimes did). Probably a bit racist, but it was 100 years ago. The funny part of this story is that the black students are also demanding their own segregated area at the University.
Plessy v Ferguson.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:00 am to elprez00
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Woodrow fricking Wilson? This reminds me of the list of demands Hans Gruber made up in Die Hard
I have been racking my brain since the Mizzou crap trying to think where I had heard an equally silly list of demands. Hans fricking Gruber in Die Hard!!!!! Dear Lord, its been like having a sneeze chambered and not delivered for over a week. Thank you Sir!!!!!
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:03 am to CoachChappy
This is happening everywhere. You ought to see the list of shite that a group wants at UA now. It's ridiculous.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:12 am to SabiDojo
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The Black Justice League
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:13 am to jrodLSUke
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:18 am to Pectus
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Reverse racism!
I think just straight up racism. They are an angry and hateful group of people.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:18 am to Pectus
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Reverse racism!
No such thing. Just simply racism.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:29 am to GetCocky11
Has Princeton responded? Wilson was a hugely influential foreign policy (Wilsonian foreign policy) POTUS and it would be a total disgrace to see any changes.
If any Ivy will tell these morons to EAD it would be Princeton
If any Ivy will tell these morons to EAD it would be Princeton
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:35 am to Placebeaux
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Being racist is not Wilson's legacy. Being a traitor and giving control of the country to the international bankers is Wilson's legacy.
You mean how under Wilson American financed most of WWI for European countries and turned Wall St from banking back road to financial capital of the world?
There is a very legit argument that our financing WWI is what led to America's rise as a superpower
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:42 am to Pettifogger
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Has Princeton responded? Wilson was a hugely influential foreign policy (Wilsonian foreign policy) POTUS and it would be a total disgrace to see any changes.
If any Ivy will tell these morons to EAD it would be Princeton
From the article:
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Unlike some other college presidents around the U.S., Eisgruber has been willing to publicly reject some of the protesters demands out of hand. The school simply isn’t going to eliminate its tributes to Wilson, he said, barely an hour into the protest.
“I agree with you, Woodrow Wilson was a racist,” he said. “In some people, you have good in great measure and evil in great measure.”
Eisgruber did agree, though, with adding courses on marginalized people to distribution requirements, but he said he lacked the power to implement such a requirement.
According to The Tab, as Eisgruber spoke, there were outcries from the crowd.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:43 am to trom83
Have them arrested for trespass and do not excuse any absences from classes.
Then have the secretary sue each and every one of them for negligent infliction of emotional distress in civil court.
Then have the secretary sue each and every one of them for negligent infliction of emotional distress in civil court.
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:53 am to GetCocky11
quote:And now they are gonna have a second line, make airbrushed t-shirts, and remember this incident until next week?
there were outcries from the crowd
Posted on 11/19/15 at 8:58 am to trom83
1. Get movers
2. Move all furniture out into a new office
3. Proceed
4. never acknowledge occupy office protest
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:02 am to SG_Geaux
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Did none of those stupid fricks tour tour that campus before deciding to go to school there?
Apparently not. It took most of them 3.5 years to even look at any of the names....the schools were so close to graduating these fricks......(assuming)
Posted on 11/19/15 at 9:03 am to tiggerthetooth
Princeton is probably the most conservative of the Ivies. They may really tell these kids to frick themselves.
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