By Daniel Payne of Just The News
Princeton University’s Board of Trustees announced Saturday that it has voted to strip the Ivy League university’s public policy school of its moniker honoring Woodrow Wilson, claiming the former Democratic president’s racist ideology made him ill-suited as a namesake for the institution. Wilson’s “racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school whose scholars, students, and alumni must be firmly committed to combating the scourge of racism in all its forms,” the trustees said in a statement on Friday.
Student protests at Princeton in November 2015 called attention to Wilson’s racism, and we responded by forming an ad hoc committee, chaired by Brent Henry ’69, to study Wilson’s legacy at Princeton. The committee recommended valuable reforms to increase Princeton’s inclusivity and recount the University’s history more completely, but it left the names of the School and College intact. Student and alumni interest in those names has persisted, and we revisited them this month as the American nation struggled profoundly with the terrible injustice of racism.
– Excerpted from a statement by the Princeton Board of Trustees
Deleting Wilson’s name at Princeton may be the most high-profile “cancel culture” act to date. The policy school will now be known as “The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.”
Wilson, a progressive Democrat known for his contempt of the U.S. Constitution due to the limits it imposed on the federal government, was a proponent of segregation and allowed much of the federal government’s workings to become racially segregated during his two terms between 1913-1921. Under his executive tenure, the first movie ever screened at the White House was the pro-Ku Klux Klan film “The Birth of a Nation.”
Wilson was president of Princeton from 1902 to 1910 and, as a Democrat, served as governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. Wilson, born in Virginia in 1856, spent his early years in the South, including in Georgia and South Carolina.
Though the board stripped Wilson’s name from the highly regarded policy school, the trustees nevertheless argued that “Princeton has a continuing responsibility to remember [Wilson’s] achievements even as we honestly and publicly contend with his failures.”
The trustees also said they would rename the school’s residential Wilson College to “First College” ahead of that residence’s already-scheduled closure in two years.
A university honor bearing the president’s name – the Woodrow Wilson Award – will remain unchanged, the trustees added, due to that award’s being associated with a gift to the university.
“The award explicitly honors specific and positive aspects of Wilson’s career,” the trustees wrote, “and it, unlike the School or the College, does not require students to identify with the Wilson name in connection with their academic or residential programs.”
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And now that cancel culture has finally sprung within the hallowed halls of America’s top liberal universities, one can argue – if one wasn’t a hypocrite of course – that the time has come to tear down Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Georgetown and pretty much most legacy institutions. The reason: as the following link details, history shows that slavery has helped build most US colleges and universities…
Time to tear down Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Yale.
History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universitieshttps://t.co/TwCjS2u7p2
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 21, 2020
… and none more so than that Ivy Leage pinnacle, Harvard – the first institution of higher learning in America, founded in 1636 – and whose first 150 years of history are defined by slavery and the slave economy, or as APM Reports writes, “Slaves made beds and meals for Harvard presidents.”
"Harvard was the first institution of higher learning in America, founded in 1636. Slavery and the slave economy thread through the first 150 years of its history. Slaves made beds and meals for Harvard presidents"https://t.co/TwCjS2u7p2
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 21, 2020
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Don’t think they will not tear down some colleges.
They’ve been infiltrating and chipping away at BYU for a while, but it is holding fast so far.
Will they have a song like this about the USA one day? One of my all time favorites.
Here’s another one. Not many people have heard this original version of Drift Away. Still the best version IMHO.
My driver in Jakarta had a Jerry Lee Lewis cassette tape he’d play when just he and I were in the car. This was my favorite song on the tape.
They should rename the building “Lenin College” and the Woodrow Wilson Award to the Karl Marx Award.
Princeton just had a draught at the elixir the Academic Marxist-Maoist-Trotskyite, and other interested parties, e.g. Jihad Inc. et. al., have cooked up in their both on-and-off kampus klandestein labor/aTories .
I wonder when the biblioclasms shall commence?
(Before or after the Aliens from Outer SPace visit this August?)
So many good reasons to despise Wilson and to eliminate his name from places…..but his abject racism is at the bottom of the list. He ushered in everything that was wrong about the 20th century.
Doesn’t it seem rather odd that only a single group of malcontents get to make demands and the institutions or government agencies instantly cave to their outlandish demands. All of this theater has been preordained and organized years in advance for your viewing pleasure.
Any counter demands will fall on deaf ears, as the agenda has been set to permanently change the face of America into a totalitarian Marxist state with any and all opposition totally ignored and eventually disposed of. Most of the white stupified Americans still fail to recognize the threat or even offer the slightest bit of resistance.
The fact that nearly half of the so called BLM protester/thugs are white speaks volumes as to the condition of the hearts and mind of the white race in this nation. Evidently, preserving a future for your progeny isn’t high on their list of priorities. Of course, most of the white females have already defiled themselves by becoming Afro-sexual and wearing it like some kind of perverted badge of honor.
The end of America as we have known it is at hand. Nothing can stop the juggernaut of raging Bolsheviks unless we decide to fight fire with fire and quit walking on eggs as our nation is destroyed. Bolsheviks, meet Blitzkrieg.
Blitzkrieg, kick these Commie bastards’ ass. Sieg Heil! What a beautiful sight that would be.
Preferable to Communism.
Preordained indeed.
Latter Day Saint Apostle Orson Pratt (1875)
Can we dump the Fed, Income Tax, etc. because a racist pushed them through?
You are on to something with your suggestion.
They will get rid of so much that History won’t be taught because there will be nothing to teach.
If you look at the history text books kids have today, we’re already there.
The only history to learn is what is written for you….in the future
Wilson the Zionist puppet, genocided via weapons of war and mass starvation tens of millions more Germans than any White man ever did of Africans, yet all the fuck we ever hear is “raciss” and never a tear is shed for the mass slaughter of Europeans by other Europeans. Clearly, man is not a learning animal.
Satan is a master manipulator, for sure.
Is It Time For Americans To Start Talking About The Devil?
“Is it really just a coincidence that white people across the world now bend the knee to a rival religion most of them cannot even name?
Over the years we have called this rival religion anti-anti-Communism, or anti-racism, or anti-historical nation malice, but they are just different parts of the prongs on the devil’s trident.
What, then, are we to do?
Remember, Satan’s greatest fear is exposure. He operates in the shadows and, like a vampire, cannot bear sunlight. We must, therefore, call the Alinskyites what they undoubtedly are: “Satanists”—and place the onus on them to disavow him.
The Left will initially feign laughter. But eventually there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth because—mark my words—they will not be able to disavow Satan. They can’t. He owns their souls, and many of them probably aren’t even aware of it.
Furthermore, we must unabashedly defend the Historical American Nation as history’s highest achievement. We must repeatedly insist that it is a mortal sin to hate one’s own race, or that of your fellow man; that it is a mortal sin to undermine one’s own country, or emigrate to another with the goal of destroying it.
And we must be ready to withstand the demonic wrath that they will subsequently direct at us.”
https://vdare.com/articles/is-it-time-for-americans-to-start-talking-about-the-devil
“And we must be ready to withstand the demonic wrath that they will subsequently direct at us.”
Satan is right out there in full view. He loves the attention, it is why he rebelled, this is his world.
You must have missed tranny storyhour at the local library, or hillary speaking to banks for $200,000 for twenty minutes.
Tranny hour and Hillary cashing in is not wrath. It leads to wrath but it is not wrath yet.
This is wrath.
I told my father that this was coming two weeks ago. He still lives in Princeton and said that there was no way they would remove his name because influential people.
Tired of winning.
Seems Orwell was right on so many levels. Currently we have a very large group of infantilized people, childishly bad tempered people who attack any and everything that isn’t to their approval. Facts don’t matter, science doesn’t matter, they attack and destroy anyone who goes against their agenda. There are 57 different sexes, not two. To state otherwise is to be destroyed, fired from your job and harassed and attacked.
I look at the white imbeciles who attack white people for being racist and I want to tell them to go kill themselves, their ‘whiteness’ is an affront to the gods of progressivism and the only path to true appeasement is for them to kill themselves and thus rid the planet of another racist.
The Harvard endowment fund should be wound down and the money used to pay reparations.
You mean repatriations, don’t you.