New York’s City Council, having already removed the statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall, now wants to take down all statuary of George Washington and Christopher Columbus.
Radical "cancel culture" in destroying national monuments is no different than 1930's Germany trying to erase and rewrite history to promote their own radical ideology. Classic example of what is now known as the "tyranny of the minority".
Recently I was at an event in Palo Alto attended by several lawyers. "Where did you go to law school?" someone asked. "Hastings School of Law, UCSF" was the reply - except that Mr. Hastings was determined to have been a racist, so "Hastings" was removed and now it has a generic name.
Someone else attended law school at UC Berkeley - popularly known as Boalt Hall. Recently the
B O A L T letters were removed - his name forever banished - because it was determined he was a racist! At Stanford University, two buildings - a dormitory and an office building - named for Junipero Serra have had their names changed. The humble 18th century Catholic priest Junipero Serra
was mean to the Indians! He was mean to them and forcibly converted them to Catholicism, they say.
(Never mind that he was canonized in 2015. They still removed his statue in Sacramento in 2018!
And what of Mr. Terman, who had a middle school in Palo Alto named for him? He developed the IQ test. He must have been a eugenicist! Rather than spend $60,000 in taxpayer funds, someone suggested that everyone could just say the Terman Middle School was for his SON Frederick - an engineering professor at Stanford who is considered one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley.
NO! The name is tainted! came the reply from Palo Alto City Council. They changed it to Ellen Fletcher. Who was she? A 1970s Palo Alto City Council member who advocated bicycle lanes.
If you walk past the building at Stanford University that used to be called Jordan Hall, you'll see the stone letters have been chiseled out, and now there is a generic temporary sign that says Biology Building. You guessed it - someone decided that Jordan was a racist! A satirical essay in the campus paper floated the idea of just considering it named for Michael Jordan of Chicago Bulls fame...
Just a correction Professor Dershowitz... George Washington only emancipated his personal slave (valet) upon his death as he did not want to put a financial hardship on his wife. He arranged for the rest of his/their slaves to be emancipated upon her death.
For the intellectual postmodernists (really psuedointellectuals) this is part of a broader plan to erase western history, culture and tradition, so that they can replace it with their marxist utopia.
For those who lived in the Soviet Union or are familiar with history, we understand how this process works. Today, it's George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Tomorrow, it's John Locke, Blackstone, Montesquie, Immanuel Kant, and David Hume. Next week, it's religion that is the problem. Next month if you don't agree with me, then you are committing "hate speech" -- no doubt at this point a criminal offense.
The red-booked, ignoramuses, that support these cancel campaigns are simply uneducated buffoons incapable of reason. They take these men out of time, and try to hold them to a standard of purity that is unreasonable. At that time, Slavery was commonplace. It existed in every corner of the globe. 15 million whites were enslaved by the Ottomans (i.e, most of the north Africa). Chinese enslaved much of their own, along with many in Southeast Asia; India had a caste system, and still does to some extent. And bonded slavery was extremely common. It was a form of insurance. If you wanted someone else to pay for travel from India to South Africa, or from England to the U.S., regardless of your race, it was expected that you'd be a slave for a few years to pay off your travel. It was integrated into every aspect of society, worldwide.
Radical "cancel culture" in destroying national monuments is no different than 1930's Germany trying to erase and rewrite history to promote their own radical ideology. Classic example of what is now known as the "tyranny of the minority".
Recently I was at an event in Palo Alto attended by several lawyers. "Where did you go to law school?" someone asked. "Hastings School of Law, UCSF" was the reply - except that Mr. Hastings was determined to have been a racist, so "Hastings" was removed and now it has a generic name.
Someone else attended law school at UC Berkeley - popularly known as Boalt Hall. Recently the
B O A L T letters were removed - his name forever banished - because it was determined he was a racist! At Stanford University, two buildings - a dormitory and an office building - named for Junipero Serra have had their names changed. The humble 18th century Catholic priest Junipero Serra
was mean to the Indians! He was mean to them and forcibly converted them to Catholicism, they say.
(Never mind that he was canonized in 2015. They still removed his statue in Sacramento in 2018!
And what of Mr. Terman, who had a middle school in Palo Alto named for him? He developed the IQ test. He must have been a eugenicist! Rather than spend $60,000 in taxpayer funds, someone suggested that everyone could just say the Terman Middle School was for his SON Frederick - an engineering professor at Stanford who is considered one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley.
NO! The name is tainted! came the reply from Palo Alto City Council. They changed it to Ellen Fletcher. Who was she? A 1970s Palo Alto City Council member who advocated bicycle lanes.
If you walk past the building at Stanford University that used to be called Jordan Hall, you'll see the stone letters have been chiseled out, and now there is a generic temporary sign that says Biology Building. You guessed it - someone decided that Jordan was a racist! A satirical essay in the campus paper floated the idea of just considering it named for Michael Jordan of Chicago Bulls fame...
Spot on dear Honorable Professor !
Just a correction Professor Dershowitz... George Washington only emancipated his personal slave (valet) upon his death as he did not want to put a financial hardship on his wife. He arranged for the rest of his/their slaves to be emancipated upon her death.
For the intellectual postmodernists (really psuedointellectuals) this is part of a broader plan to erase western history, culture and tradition, so that they can replace it with their marxist utopia.
For those who lived in the Soviet Union or are familiar with history, we understand how this process works. Today, it's George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Tomorrow, it's John Locke, Blackstone, Montesquie, Immanuel Kant, and David Hume. Next week, it's religion that is the problem. Next month if you don't agree with me, then you are committing "hate speech" -- no doubt at this point a criminal offense.
The red-booked, ignoramuses, that support these cancel campaigns are simply uneducated buffoons incapable of reason. They take these men out of time, and try to hold them to a standard of purity that is unreasonable. At that time, Slavery was commonplace. It existed in every corner of the globe. 15 million whites were enslaved by the Ottomans (i.e, most of the north Africa). Chinese enslaved much of their own, along with many in Southeast Asia; India had a caste system, and still does to some extent. And bonded slavery was extremely common. It was a form of insurance. If you wanted someone else to pay for travel from India to South Africa, or from England to the U.S., regardless of your race, it was expected that you'd be a slave for a few years to pay off your travel. It was integrated into every aspect of society, worldwide.