Students at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, demanded on Friday that the school remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson, arguing that it is not possible for the university to have the statue on campus while also being an institution that “prides itself on diversity and inclusion.” Students also called on the university to train its faculty and professors to behave in a more politically correct manner.
Hofstra University students held their second annual “Jefferson Has Gotta Go!” protest of a Thomas Jefferson statue on campus on Friday, demanding that the university move the structure into a museum along with the “appropriate context.”
The Jefferson statue, which has also been subjected to acts of vandalism in the past, stands in front of the university’s student center — a location that some students have expressed frustration over, stating “it is unfortunate” that so many students and families “take photos and share hugs and smiles” in the presence of the Jefferson statue.
“So we just felt like, in addition to just, Thomas Jefferson being a slave owner and a um, sexual predator, and just, you know, awful, [the statue] is now an unavoidable thing,” said one student at an event on Friday, “it just doesn’t have a place, I think, on any college campus, like, there’s just no reason to, like, immortalize people who brutalize so many of the population.”
“I just don’t think that an institution that, you know, prides itself on diversity and inclusion, and like, offering such a rich liberal arts program can do both, like, I think you have to choose one or the other, and it seems like Hofstra is perfectly content with choosing Thomas Jefferson over literally everything else,” added the student.
Additionally, the event included demands for the university to train its staff on how to better interact with students, as several individuals went up to the podium to deliver their remarks detailing personal experiences with professors who make comments that the students have deemed unacceptable.
One student expressed her dismay upon seeing a professor post comments on Facebook in which he shared his opinion that “the university is wasting resources” by hiring a “Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.”
“And so, I saw this, and was like, ‘hello?’ Like, what?” said the student, “So I explained, like, the actual, like, feeling of this campus, like, what it actually feels like to be a student of color and the actual situations that we’re dealing with, because the student population right now is 54 percent white and the faculty of the population is even less diverse, it’s 79 percent white.”
The student added that she had also been frustrated with the professor’s response to her. “He went on later to — just, pretty much invalidate everything that I said, like, what my experiences were, and just, told me that I was victimizing myself,” said the concerned student.
Students circulated a petition last year calling on the university to remove the Jefferson statue over concerns regarding “slavery, rape, and anti-black racism.” The petition also argues that too many students on campus end up encountering the statue as they “walk through the Student Center for a quick cup of coffee.”
The petition also states that “Jefferson’s values aided in the construction of institutionalized racism and justified the subjugation of black people in the United States,” adding that commentators in “white supremacist chat rooms” have also embraced the founding father.
The university responded to the students’ demands by informing them that the statue wasn’t going anywhere. “I have decided that the Thomas Jefferson statue will remain where it is,” said University President Stuart Rabinowitz in a statement last May.
“On the one hand, Thomas Jefferson articulated the best of our ideals in the Declaration of Independence and was a defender of freedom in helping to create a new nation: the United States of America,” continued Rabinowitz in his statement, elaborating on why he made the decision to keep the Jefferson statue.
Rabinowitz added that while not every founding father may have lived out “the dream they had sketched out,” their words were “far ahead of their time and certainly ahead of their actions.”
“And still, today, the founding fathers represent the duality of the American character and the difficulty of our history: freedom and oppression, equality and injustice, in issues of race, gender, religion and origin, that we have dealt with since our founding and will deal with for years to come,” continued the university president.
“Yet in the documents most critical to our national character these men of their time laid out a vision of a world in which all people are created equal,” added Rabinowitz, “It is this vision we celebrate and honor in our Founding Fathers, even as we wrestle with their human and indefensible failings.”
“We shouldn’t have to ask for these things, none of them are really that radical,” said a student at the event on Friday, “College campuses all over the country are dealing with repercussions of slavery, and just, you know, historical trauma, and they’re dealing with that much better than Hofstra is.”
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I am going to say it the way I am feeling it. F**k’em! If the statue comes down then “all” federal funding should immediately STOP at all levels. This is going to far. Let the little spoiled brats find funding in some other country if they don’t like this one. Let them first put their citizenship on the line. Let them find a new country to live in. It is time to take a stand against these assholes, young and old, that want to destroy this country that has made it possible for them to sit on their butts and finger their touch hole.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT HERE, LEAVE! NO ONE IS STOPPING YOU FROM FINDING A COUNTRY WITH YOUR VALUE SET.
This is what happens when you let Cultural Marxists (aka Communists) run the education system, you create radicals who want to destroy history, so that they can implement a new ideology.
The problem is these butt sniffers don’t understand that they will be the first ones to be sent off to the gulag, after the purges begin.
Totally agree. Also for a moratorium on all immigration for at least a generation
Steven, the moratorium you suggest would be a very wise course of action
Time is right to cancel classes, send everyone home, close the school, and return the property to productive agricultural land. The buildings can be better used to house the homeless or mentally ill.
I would be more than happy to take the offending statue off their hands.
Apparently the mentally ill are already there….
Well, then I suspect they are not getting enough Thorazine, Prolixin Decanoate, or stronger, anti-psychotic medications. Straight-jackets are indicated for the faculty and administration in any case.
That will work for now. Problem is these turds seem to keep coming back, so buy them a ticket to a country of their choosing and don’t let them back in the USA. Enough of this, from these people who don’t like it here. It is our country too. What makes their views so righteous and valid over ours? Most, not all, but most of these college kids have not worked a solid day in their lives. As far as the so called teachers go, Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.
Maybe we can convince them to invade Mexico???
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Use them t detain illegal immigrants.
“Jefferson Has Gotta Go!”
Evidence of the organizer’s mastery and correct use of English.
College? University?
Find a good trade school, Generation Zyklon.
And Good Luck out there.
LOL. In the immortal words of Tony Montana:
“I keel a communist fo fun. Bu fo a green card, I gonna cut him up real good.”
I demand that Hofstra University be moved to Venezuela along with the “appropriate context.”
Hey, Hey , Ho Ho Hofstra U. has gotta go!
Mirror mirror on the wall – who’s the wokest if them all?
Does anyone here want to live when these morons are in charge?
Everytime I hear from, like, these college students, you know, it makes me want to, like, puke. Can’t wait till they, like, get out into the real world, you know, where they will, like, be given a, you know, real education.
I love how people that will never in their lives accomplish 1/100th of what Jefferson did demand the removal of his statue. Why? So they do not feel so bad about how useless they are.
Exactly. Morans all…
I would suggest 1/1024th as perhaps a closer estimate. Ask Liz Warren for details.
You should like, you know, move to a country with values that like, empower people of color, and like, you know, peddle nonsensical bullshit, like you know….
wow…. that’s exhausting writing that way…
Just wait, Washington is next. What are they going to want to do, rename the state, rename D.C, tear down the monument?
Whozat? as a young stogie aficianado in his yute?
Come on, ‘fess up.
Who among us likes an occasional fine seegahr?
Frothy fires one up from T2T while relaxing with a libation, or out on the goof course, between swings o da clubs, puttering around.
A woman is a lady, but
A cigar is a smoke.
Have cutter & torch, will travel.
One a day.
To me a fine cigar at the right time…usually with an adult beverage (or two) is an aficionado’s shank of the evening delight!
I worked in the Cigar Industry for three years as a consultant dealing with shoplifting and employee theft and spoke at, gave training seminars to, and was the keynote once at three major events of the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America (RTDA) and the international manufactures group…the Tobacco Association of America (TAA).
At one TAA convention Cynthia Fuente, Arturo Fuente’s daughter (the Fuente family had sponsored me as the keynote) presented me with a handmade barber pole cigar of light and dark tobacco her Father had made. The people at my table (all major retailers) said I could put it on E-bay and get at least $500.00 (that was in 2003).
I lit it up and smoked it at the table. It was superb.
I’m an Acid fan and favor their Blue Connecticut. (The owners are a couple of old hippies and at their booth at trade shows I could have sworn the scent of Maryjane was wafting through the air).
I like the Oliva G series flat sided, not round. Dominicans are nice & mild.
Have enjoyed a Fuente or 2 in the past.
Thanks for the tip, on the Acid Blue Conneticut. Will have to give one a try this Spring.
~Cheers, bud.
Excerpts on Gramsci from the New American – in 1999 (long, but worth the read for it’s prescience – I would have never thought so much could change so, relatively, quickly but it has):
“Those who accept uncritically the idea that “Communism is dead” fail to understand the true nature of the enemy. Communism is not an ideology in which one believes. Rather, it is a criminal conspiracy in which one enlists.
….Gramsci believed that if Communism achieved “mastery of human consciousness,” then labor camps and mass murder would be unnecessary. How does an ideology gain such mastery over patterns of thought inculcated by cultures for hundreds of years? Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people would be attained, Gramsci contended, if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — churches, education, newspapers, magazines, the electronic media, serious literature, music, the visual arts, and so on. By winning “cultural hegemony,” to use Gramsci’s own term, Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not even control all of the information itself if one can gain control over the minds that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, serious opposition disappears since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism’s opponents. Men will indeed “love their servitude,” and will not even realize that it is servitude.
….Steps in the Process
The first phase in achieving “cultural hegemony” over a nation is the undermining of all elements of traditional culture. Churches are thus transformed into ideology-driven political clubs, with the stress on “social justice” and egalitarianism, with worship reduced to trivialized entertainment, and with age-old doctrinal and moral teachings “modernized” or diminished to the point of irrelevancy. Genuine education is replaced by “dumbed-down” and “politically correct” curricula, and standards are reduced dramatically. The mass media are fashioned into instruments for mass manipulation and for harassing and discrediting traditional institutions and their spokesmen. Morality, decency, and old virtues are ridiculed without respite. Tradition-minded clergymen are portrayed as hypocrites and virtuous men and women as prudish, stuffy, and unenlightened.
Culture is no longer a buttress supporting the integrity of the national heritage and a vehicle for imparting that heritage to future generations, but becomes a means for “destroying ideals and … presenting the young not with heroic examples but with deliberately and aggressively degenerate ones,” as theologian Harold O.J. Brown writes. We see this in contemporary American life, in which the great historical symbols of our nation’s past, including great presidents, soldiers, explorers, and thinkers, are shown to have been unforgivably flawed with “racism” and “sexism” and therefore basically evil. Their place has been taken by pro-Marxist charlatans, pseudo-intellectuals, rock stars, leftist movie celebrities, and the like.”
And here we all are.
“… labor camps and mass murder would be unnecessary.”
– A. Gramsci via JAG
So they – Communists -would still have them, labor camps and mass murder, just for the fun of it?
The quote is according to Gramsci, not Stalin and others that preferred the violent-enforcement approach.
Think: Huxley/Soma versus Orwell/Big Brother.
From my understanding, Gramsci’s point was that Marxists didn’t need to use the totalitarian violence if they took control of the institutions that defined the culture.
As I look around, it seems that is exactly what they have done in the U.S. and elsewhere. Combined with solidly implementing 6+ Planks, they have “won” the game even though it appeared they may have lost, for a while, in the ’90’s.
Makes you wonder if a big war wouldn’t be the worst thing. Send all these dumb-ass idiots off to war and let’s see if they come back worrying about a statue. Fucking morons with too much time and resources at hand.
War may have slowed the whole thing down but, it hasn’t worked to date. It would seem there is an endless supply of “TURDS” to replace those lost in the struggle. I am thinking it is up to the people at large that have to come to grips with the idea “they” must be responsible for themselves not government and the turds that make it up. We are approaching the time when the fat lady will sing. I pray it will not hurt our ears to badly.
For my money, let the games begin. I am getting tired of the promises and BS.
Send them off to war and treat them like Uriah the Hittite.
Once again the Doppy Deplorables fail to realize is that no single issue of the Left is an issue in and of itself.
In this case they only care about poking a Deplorable with a stick.
And the response of the Deplorale will be nothing. Name 1 thing the Delorable has done these past 2 years except whine and complain?
The sooner my home state pushes for secession the better. I can’t stand reading this bullshit much longer.
I agree with your last sentence from the bottom of my disgusted, fed up, angry, determined heart too…but every day, week, month, year is a gift to prepare for whatever form or function Civil War 2 takes…and whatever event(s) pull the modern day Fort Sumter trigger that will be the starter’s gun in the coming carnage.
I believe we are taken off the world stage in prophcy as a meaningful world power…and Civil War 2 is the most likely reason.
Every single day, no matter how lazy or busy, how cold or warm, how free or committed, I just scan my ever changing lists and check off at least one task, one purchase, one follow up to get myself and my family ready for the horrific national crucible that is coming and is inevitable.
When Obama was re-elected I never dreamed in my wildest most optimistic dream I would have had this much of the most precious PREP there is…TIME.
One day it will be gone…those of us who see it coming must use it wisely and relentlessly.
” I believe we are taken off the world stage in prophecy……….and Civil War 2 is the most likely reason.” Probably not. With my luck I would have some major Prog filth centered in my EOTech just as the Yellowstone Caldera blows us all to Perdition.
HR…you got me chuckling…
Yea, to paraphrase that scene in Jaws… “We’re gonna need bigger Prep”…
Like us dumb ass white people who are not like diverse should be more like particular about like what kind of like education we subsidize with like guaranteed like student loans. We are reaping what we’ve sown.
Buy more ammo….a .308 or a 5.56 makes a good case for Socialism
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