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If you start scrubbing all vestiges of Confederate history from universities and Southern states. it doesn't end there. You have to scrub George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other U.S. Declaration and Constitution founders, who owned slaves. It's a liberal-progressive America-hating way to undermine the country as a whole, not to scrub just a few figures who completely or partly/ambiguously may have endorsed slavery or white supremacy.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt wouldn't meet with Jesse Owens after he won the 1936 Olympics in Germany. Are we to scrub FDR?
Abraham Lincoln, despite his Emancipation Proclamation, had racist views and wanted to repatriate all blacks to the U.S.-established nation Monrovia in Africa, founded for that purpose. Are we to scrub Abe as well?
Henry Ford was a racist, and an enthusiastic advocate of Adolf Hitler. Do we scrub him too?
Or can we accept that these were different times, that some of these people may have had to work with racists and conform to racism just to retain political viability, or may have been unquestionably racist, but despite that made historical/cultural contributions to the nation and the world.
I had a (probably liberal) Jewish professor in college who said in ancient times slavery was almost a necessity to build human civilization that advanced humanity as a whole, such as building the pyramids or the cities of Rome. I never considered him a racist or an advocate of white supremacy who had to be silenced. He was simply speaking candidly about the realities of building civilizations and empires in those pre-industrial times. We can't judge those past eras by modern standards.
I wonder if the liberals at Yale feel similarly about Muslims who think it's perfectly fine to enslave infidels and rape, sell, beat and otherwise subjugate their women, as occurs in places like Sudan, Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
In the name of multiculturalism, they'd probably name a school after these fanatics. Their enemy is not slavery or injustice, it is Western Democracy.
