Yale Forms Special Committee For Renaming Offensive Things

[rangerrebew]

Yale Forms Special Committee For Renaming Offensive Things
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Blake Neff
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7:27 PM 08/01/2016
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Yale University has established a new committee dedicated to deciding when and how the school should rename buildings, monuments, and other campus features it believes are too offensive for a modern university campus.

The Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming is exactly what it sounds like: A special group that will set rules to decide what aspects of Yale’s history should remain, and which should be purged.

The committee’s existence stems from the long-running controversy over Calhoun College, a residential college at the school named for John C. Calhoun, an American vice president who was a vocal defender of slavery. Many have called for Calhoun College to be renamed, with those calls gaining strength after the June 2015 shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, which sparked a general backlash against monuments to the Confederacy and slaveholders.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/01/yale-forms-special-committee-for-renaming-offensive-things/#ixzz4GAlXKNVY

[rangerrebew]

A rose by any other name is still a rose.  You can change the name but not the meaning.

[Crazieman]

I can find offensive meanings in having the buildings numbered.

[rangerrebew]

If there is a way to irritate the vast majority of people, liberals/progressives will find it.

[Fishrrman]

"The Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming is exactly what it sounds like: A special group that will set rules to decide what aspects of Yale’s history should remain, and which should be purged."

They need this guy to head up the team: