Cornell University, founded in 1865, member of the Ivy League, and alma mater of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kurt Vonnegut, and Freeman Dyson, just removed a bust of President Abraham Lincoln and a bronzed Gettysburg Address plaque from one of its libraries.
Someone blew up part of the Georgia Guidestones night-before-last, where I live, in rural Elbert Co., GA. I didn’t believe in the “hippy dippy whackadoodle” things sandblasted into the rock, but, their presence didn’t upset me whatsoever. This reminds me of the Taliban blowing up the Buddhas in Bamiyan in 2001.
I think that instead of cancelling Lincoln, we ought to remember that racism was part and parcel of his times. He was racist in some ways and that should encourage us not to reject him but to ask ourselves what will later generations condemn us for going along with. I would think the holocaust of abortion will be one of those things. We should also consider what contemporaries thought of him upon reflection as did Frederick Douglass. Douglass is brutally honest but acknowledges Lincoln's contribution. https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/teagle/texts/frederick-douglass-speech-at-dedication-of-emancipation-memorial-1876/
I've said as much about the C-suites of "woke" corporations - but at least these organizations are accountable to shareholders and customers, who righteously let their dissatisfaction with corporate wokism be known.
Universities, on the other hand, are unaccountable (apparently) to anybody. It's not as if the Lincoln bust was burnishing anybody's diploma or accruing to accreditation. So it's a "free move" from Cornell's perspective. And it gets rid of one complainer - for now. Eventually, as the Free Speech Movement in California's university system demonstrated in the 60s, the campus becomes dysfunctional and order breaks down for the students paying tuition and trying to gain an education. That's when you bring out the firehoses. Better to nip this crap in the bud than encourage it.
Tragically you can not give these people an inch. Has to be a hard no. So sick of stupid.
So am I.
Someone blew up part of the Georgia Guidestones night-before-last, where I live, in rural Elbert Co., GA. I didn’t believe in the “hippy dippy whackadoodle” things sandblasted into the rock, but, their presence didn’t upset me whatsoever. This reminds me of the Taliban blowing up the Buddhas in Bamiyan in 2001.
https://youtu.be/drR9ZX40ckY
Quite.
Reminds me of the bit about the Library at Alexandria I wrote about here:
https://therootsofliberty.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-warmism
I think that instead of cancelling Lincoln, we ought to remember that racism was part and parcel of his times. He was racist in some ways and that should encourage us not to reject him but to ask ourselves what will later generations condemn us for going along with. I would think the holocaust of abortion will be one of those things. We should also consider what contemporaries thought of him upon reflection as did Frederick Douglass. Douglass is brutally honest but acknowledges Lincoln's contribution. https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/teagle/texts/frederick-douglass-speech-at-dedication-of-emancipation-memorial-1876/
I've said as much about the C-suites of "woke" corporations - but at least these organizations are accountable to shareholders and customers, who righteously let their dissatisfaction with corporate wokism be known.
Universities, on the other hand, are unaccountable (apparently) to anybody. It's not as if the Lincoln bust was burnishing anybody's diploma or accruing to accreditation. So it's a "free move" from Cornell's perspective. And it gets rid of one complainer - for now. Eventually, as the Free Speech Movement in California's university system demonstrated in the 60s, the campus becomes dysfunctional and order breaks down for the students paying tuition and trying to gain an education. That's when you bring out the firehoses. Better to nip this crap in the bud than encourage it.
ICYMI:
https://www.commonsense.news/p/why-im-giving-up-tenure-at-ucla?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email