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In the Bay Area, the Year Zero’s un-namings grind on. While San Francisco today un-named Abraham Lincoln High School, UC Berkeley un-named Kroeber Hall, which had been named for one-time liberal hero Alfred L. Kroeber (1876-1970), the holder of the first ever Anthropology doctorate granted by Franz Boas’s department at Columbia U.

Kroeber’s daughter was the late liberal sci-fi writer Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-2016).

 
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  1. Blank slater just got blank slated.

    • LOL: Cato, Bill
    • Replies: @International Jew
    @Kronos

    Nice. You could also say that Kroeber got crowbarred off the building.

  2. Yeah, but that still means that UC Berkeley is named after a slave-owner:

    Berkeley (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California

    But he has a stain on his record, as documented in 2001 by a group of graduate students from Yale, another university with strong links to “the good bishop”. In a report calling on Yale to face up to its troubled history, they describe in detail the Irish scholar’s purchase of a plantation at Rhode Island, having travelled across the Atlantic to set up a missionary project.

    On October 4th, 1730, Berkeley purchased “a negro man named Philip aged 14 years or thereabout”. A few days later he purchased “a negro man named Edward aged 20 years or thereabouts”.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/what-to-do-about-george-berkeley-trinity-figurehead-and-slave-owner-1.4277555

    Obviously, in the name of racial equity and Wokeness, both the city and the university have to be re-named.Since Ibram X. Kendi is the greatest living thinker, he would be a good choice for the the new name….

    • Replies: @Anon
    @syonredux

    They could change the university (and city) name from Berleley to Berklee, like the music school on the east coast. Berklee is apparently named after a kid named Lee Eliot Berk, the son of the school's founder, Lawrence Berk. Lee Eliot is not known to have owned slaves, having been born in the mid-20th century.

    "Berklee" also is black-friendly from a spelling standpoint.

    Replies: @Alden

    , @Clement Pulaski
    @syonredux

    Not to mention the reason why they chose Berkeley for their namesake:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California

    'According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, "In 1866…at Founders' Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate. One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, 'westward the course of empire takes its way,' and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher."'

    The city's name was literally conceived as honoring the most westerly extent of the empire of European man.

    And then the Berkeley city seal

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Seal_of_Berkeley%2C_California.png

    , @fish
    @syonredux

    I'm onboard.....but only if he uses his real name....plain old Henry Rogers.

  3. The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    A women lost her job at a children’s book seller for getting on parler

    The insurrectionists are all fired or getting prosecuted

    There children are turning them in

    Trump is going to jail

    Names are being changed

    Monuments are coming down

    Low income housing is going up in white areas

    white girls are hearing Children of Color

    SUPREME VICTORY

    • Replies: @Stogumber
    @Vince dillweed

    I admit that I feel uncomfortable. Reading so much about name changes among the famous people and their institutions (of course, it is good read, but ...). And so little about life changes among the infamous people who are crushed now and who have no institutions to support them.

    , @The Alarmist
    @Vince dillweed

    Tiny D, is that you?

    , @Anonymous
    @Vince dillweed


    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud
     
    He isn’t a “troll” and he isn’t “right wing.” He is an intellectual and a pundit. And an American who loves his country.
    , @Neil Templeton
    @Vince dillweed

    Thanks, Teal. Neil

    , @ic1000
    @Vince dillweed

    > white girls are hearing Children of Color

    Do you mean that w[sic]hite girls are hearing aristocratic B[sic]lack children reciting childish poetry? As a viewer of NBC Evening News With Lester Holt, I can confirm the truth of that.

    Or do you speaking metaphorically? The last thing white girls women Caitlyn Kaufman and Kayla Chapman "heard" came from the "Children of Color" who snuffed out their lives.

    Clarification please, TD.

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Vince dillweed

    https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-nf2x4/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/686/10534/Hemp-Rubber-Duck-BudDuck-5__21344.1599664833.jpg?c=2

    , @MEH 0910
    @Vince dillweed


    SUPREME VICTORY
     
    https://i.imgflip.com/3fu570.jpg
  4. “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”

    …as in United States Senator Diane Feinstein, former mayor of San Francisco.

    Feinstein, was added to the list for “reportedly” ordering a Confederate flag to be replaced after it had been torn down.

    “Parents and teachers at each school will have until April to propose new names, which must be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. Renaming the schools is expected to cost $440,000.”

    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”; not too many characters, already translated into most languages, easy to remember, and most important, to spell.

    • Replies: @jon
    @danand

    Just do like New York does and give every school a number. Might as well start the demoralization early.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Richard B

    , @Ron Unz
    @danand


    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”
     
    Well, it could have been stranger...

    The SF activists renamed almost all the local schools honoring Hispanic figures, because all those Hispanics had been "bad" people, but they somehow avoided including Cesar Chavez in the mass purge, despite his notorious role as a leading anti-immigrant vigilante activist, as described in the SF Chronicle article:

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Abraham-Lincoln-was-once-a-hero-In-some-S-F-15798744.php

    As I'd written a decade ago:

    Consider, for example, the case of self-educated union activist Cesar Chavez, a liberal icon of the 1960s who today ranks as the top Latino figure in America’s progressive pantheon. During nearly his entire career, Chavez stood as a vigorous opponent of immigration, especially of the undocumented variety, repeatedly denouncing the failure of the government to enforce its immigration laws due to the pervasive influence of the business lobby and even occasionally organizing vigilante patrols at the Mexican border. Indeed, the Minutemen border activists of a few years back were merely following in Chavez’s footsteps and would have had every historical right to have named their organization the “Cesar Chavez Brigade.” I think a good case can be made that during his own era Chavez ranked as America’s foremost anti-immigration activist.
     
    https://www.unz.com/runz/immigration-republicans-and-the-end-of-white-america-singlepage/

    Replies: @Neil Templeton, @Neuday

    , @Hypnotoad666
    @danand


    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”;
     
    The Donald J. Trump Huge Best School Ever for Winners.

    Replies: @Dieter Kief, @The Alarmist

    , @Mike Tre
    @danand

    How about The Unz School of Predictable Outcomes?

    , @Alden
    @danand

    There’s a petition going around to keep the present names. Liberals are insane. They worship Hispanics when they are Métis in prison or failing in school. But when they are Spanish priests and explorers who created California, they are evil Whites.

    For instance sergeant Ortega, the first White man to see San Francisco Bay. In 1769, Padre Crespi, Captain de Portola and Sergeant Ortega set off from Monterey to find the huge bay rumored to be to the north. They walked along what’s now Skyline Highway

    They arrived in what’s now the little town of Pacifica and set up their camp on what’s now the site of Crespi school on Crespi Drive. The next morning Ortega climbed up the mountain and looked north and east for the bay. It was too foggy to see anything.

    Next day he again climbed the mountain and there it was, in all its glory, the greatest harbor on the entire pacific coast from Chile to Canada

    The Spanish founders are much more like local personal and important than Revere, Washington etc. So many of the private schools in the Bay Area are mission schools founded in the 184os.

    One would think that all these Hispanic activists would want to preserve the Spanish heritage. But being stooges of the Jews, they are happy to destroy their own heritage.

    The importance of the Padres and missions is not religion and exploration . It’s farming, the most important industry in California. It will be there centuries after SV entertainment and all other industry moves out.

    Nobody goes to public schools anyway. Last I looked, there were more private high schools than public high schools in San Francisco. Since Mercy SF closed, that might have changed.

    San Francisco has a strict bussing system. Kids cannot attend their local public school including K-5. Every kid goes into a pool of names. They are assigned to schools allegedly randomly. So instead of waking a few blocks with neighborhood friends. They are bussed all over town. And the assignments aren’t random. The savages are sent to the most expensive neighborhoods.

    The strict bussing system is a major reason San Franciscans use the private schools. Why put your child into the pool with the savages and pray they’ll be sent to neighboring Presidio public school when you can enroll them in Star of the Sea catholic , or Kittredge or Laurel secular private, and they can walk home, make neighborhood friends and be safe from the savages? The Asians like the private schools even more than the Whites do.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

  5. As a Cal alum, rather than rename Evans Hall, I’d prefer the wrecking ball, and a start from scratch.

    • Replies: @Humbert Humbert
    @Farenheit

    So true. The office I shared with two other graduate students during my biostat PhD is located on the 3rd floor of Evans Hall, they are small/cramped rooms. The ugliest building on campus for sure. On the other hand the views from the western conference room on the last floor were breathtaking. Another shit thing about Evans hall was that from time to time was sharing an elevator ride with that goddamn ugly midget Robert Reich going to the econ. dept.

    Replies: @Farenheit

    , @Deckin
    @Farenheit

    When I was there as an undergrad, the math TAs would try to build Evans Hall into all of their problems: calculating rocket trajectories to destroy it, etc.

    , @vinteuil
    @Farenheit


    As a Cal alum, rather than rename Evans Hall, I’d prefer the wrecking ball, and a start from scratch.
     
    Agreed.

    Me: B.A., Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley, 1987, Magna Cum Laude, Departmental Citation for outstanding graduate...

    In those days, I was at least a little bit proud of the degree that I earned there.

    Not any more. Now, I feel nothing but shame.

    Burn it all down.
    , @syonredux
    @Farenheit

    Berkeley grad (BA, English), and I still have fond memories of Wheeler Hall


    https://i2.wp.com/www.dailycal.org/assets/uploads/2015/06/Wheeler-AW-900x580.jpg


    Of course, I made a point of taking as many non-Woke courses (Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, etc) as possible...

    Replies: @Old Palo Altan

  6. Anon[429] • Disclaimer says:

    OT

    A rather tardy NYT obit for James Flynn:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/science/james-r-flynn-dead.html

    We learn “His research helped discredit the theory that differences in performance on I.Q. tests between Black and white people were a result of genetic differences.” Finally. I’m so happy that shit was discredited.

    I think the reason that the obit was so late was that they discovered that Flynn and Charles Murray were semi-buddies, respected each other, Flynn owes his fame to Murray, Murray is not considered Satan by anyone in the field, etc. How to airbrush Murray out of Flynn’s obit? They couldn’t. Neither could his collegiality with Jensen be omitted. Flynn: What a “problematic” guy.

  7. Asking for directions ca. 2023: “Which King high school?”

    And OT, but any thoughts about Ricky Vaughn, Steve? The feds arrested him today for tweeting memes five years ago.

    • Replies: @Polistra
    @Daniel Williams


    Asking for directions ca. 2023: “Which King high school?”
     
    Asking for directions, ca 2028: "What's a high school?"

    Giving directions, ca. 2032: "开始工作你懒牛"

  8. The linked CNN article quotes a university official explaining why this was done:

    “In her letter to the university president as to why the decision was being made, Christ stated that some of Kroeber’s views and writings “clearly stand in opposition to our university’s values of inclusion and our belief in promoting diversity and excellence.”

    But the listed sins of Kroeber were connected with how he treated Indian remains and an Indian on campus, things that are utterly unconnected with inclusion, diversity and excellence. Sounds like the university always claims that, whether it is true or not. A faculty member who does seem to know what she is talking about sticks up for Kroeber but they are taking down his name anyhow.

    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @notsaying

    Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    In these non-binary times you need to embrace the power of "and".

    , @dearieme
    @notsaying

    Christ stated that

    It ain't reported in the Gospels.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    , @Buffalo Joe
    @notsaying

    notsaying, better read by going to Berkeleyside. And read the comments too. I would have linked the article but I don't know how. Stay safe.

    Replies: @danand

    , @ben tillman
    @notsaying


    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?
     
    No one TODAY meets all of today's standards.
    , @Cato
    @notsaying


    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?
     
    It's a bit of an irony: in their eagerness to avoid being ethnocentric, they become chronocentric. But at least the dead aren't around to complain.
  9. @danand
    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”

    ...as in United States Senator Diane Feinstein, former mayor of San Francisco.

    Feinstein, was added to the list for “reportedly” ordering a Confederate flag to be replaced after it had been torn down.

    “Parents and teachers at each school will have until April to propose new names, which must be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. Renaming the schools is expected to cost $440,000.”

    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”; not too many characters, already translated into most languages, easy to remember, and most important, to spell.

    Replies: @jon, @Ron Unz, @Hypnotoad666, @Mike Tre, @Alden

    Just do like New York does and give every school a number. Might as well start the demoralization early.

    • Agree: Hibernian
    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @jon


    Just do like New York does and give every school a number. Might as well start the demoralization early.
     
    Just make sure PS 4 isn't in Chinatown. Or PS 39 in Afghan Alley. (Or is that in Berkeley?)


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=scsNaM5fS0M
    , @Richard B
    @jon


    Just do like New York does and give every school a number.
     
    Like the Romans used to number their children.

    Now there's an idea for the high school students of New York, and not just New York.

    Replies: @Deckin

  10. Steve, they are trying to imprison Ricky Vaughn, one of the most talented thinkers and political leaders of the past decade.

  11. The UC system used to be the best and cheapest public university system in the country. Now they are among the most expensive, they have done away with standardized testing for incoming students, and they have set up a diversity screen for new faculty hires. Overpriced, mediocre faculty, mediocre students – their rankings still seem to be holding up, but at some point in the near future it seems like it will all have to come crashing down.

  12. • Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
    @Anonymous

    Titania McGrath has a Jewish cousin who's a world-class meeskeit? Who knew?

    , @Dan Hayes
    @Anonymous

    Brooke is trolling, albeit inadvertently!
    So chalk it up to her being a nitwit!

    , @Bardon Kaldian
    @Anonymous

    Ahahahahh....this woman is priceless.

    https://www.newsweek.com/time-now-jewish-civil-rights-movement-opinion-1528578

    The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement | Opinion
    ................................................


    Perhaps our greatest failure has been the absence of significant civil rights advocacy through the courts, or impact litigation. One of the best things about American democracy is the citizenry's ability to effectuate societal change through the legal system. Roe v. Wade codified women's right to choose. Brown v. Board of Education judicially mandated desegregation. Most recently, Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed marriage equality. You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community.

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.
     
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/fe/40/80fe4019000f33a4c61d4862069ca92b.gif

    Replies: @ben tillman, @fish, @Gary in Gramercy, @Reg Cæsar, @Rob McX

    , @El Dato
    @Anonymous

    "All of this has happened before and it will happen again."

    , @International Jew
    @Anonymous

    Hubba hubba. There are gonna be a lot of Jewish uprisings under the pants of guys just looking at her picture.

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    , @Mike Tre
    @Anonymous

    Aww how cute, Jack D gave one of his new associates a twitter account.

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Anonymous


    The time is NOW for a Jewish uprising against the systemic discrimination we have faced as a minority community in both eastern & western cultures. We will NO LONGER accept second class status and bigoted discrimination due to our ethnic and cultural identity.
     
    Indeed, how much longer will this helpless people be a detested minority living in the shadows - eking out a pitiful existence on the margins of society. It's time they had a place at the table!
  13. @danand
    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”

    ...as in United States Senator Diane Feinstein, former mayor of San Francisco.

    Feinstein, was added to the list for “reportedly” ordering a Confederate flag to be replaced after it had been torn down.

    “Parents and teachers at each school will have until April to propose new names, which must be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. Renaming the schools is expected to cost $440,000.”

    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”; not too many characters, already translated into most languages, easy to remember, and most important, to spell.

    Replies: @jon, @Ron Unz, @Hypnotoad666, @Mike Tre, @Alden

    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”

    Well, it could have been stranger…

    The SF activists renamed almost all the local schools honoring Hispanic figures, because all those Hispanics had been “bad” people, but they somehow avoided including Cesar Chavez in the mass purge, despite his notorious role as a leading anti-immigrant vigilante activist, as described in the SF Chronicle article:

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Abraham-Lincoln-was-once-a-hero-In-some-S-F-15798744.php

    As I’d written a decade ago:

    Consider, for example, the case of self-educated union activist Cesar Chavez, a liberal icon of the 1960s who today ranks as the top Latino figure in America’s progressive pantheon. During nearly his entire career, Chavez stood as a vigorous opponent of immigration, especially of the undocumented variety, repeatedly denouncing the failure of the government to enforce its immigration laws due to the pervasive influence of the business lobby and even occasionally organizing vigilante patrols at the Mexican border. Indeed, the Minutemen border activists of a few years back were merely following in Chavez’s footsteps and would have had every historical right to have named their organization the “Cesar Chavez Brigade.” I think a good case can be made that during his own era Chavez ranked as America’s foremost anti-immigration activist.

    https://www.unz.com/runz/immigration-republicans-and-the-end-of-white-america-singlepage/

    • Thanks: Polistra
    • Replies: @Neil Templeton
    @Ron Unz

    You are preaching to the choir, and whistling to the wind. It is done, the die is cast.

    , @Neuday
    @Ron Unz

    Considering California's demographics, they should rename the schools for Aztec chiefs. Wouldn't it be fun to hear the few blacks pronouncing names like:

    Acamapichtli
    Huitzilihuitl
    Chimalpopoca
    Itzcóhuatl
    Motecuzoma Ilhuicamina (and not Montezuma, it was the Spaniards who called him like this because they couldn't pronounce it)
    Axayácatl
    Tizoc (this does sound like a Black High School)
    Ahuítzotl
    Motecuzoma Xocoyotl (the one who first met the Spaniards)
    Cuitlahuac

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Getaclue

  14. Anon[349] • Disclaimer says:
    @syonredux
    Yeah, but that still means that UC Berkeley is named after a slave-owner:

    Berkeley (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California

    But he has a stain on his record, as documented in 2001 by a group of graduate students from Yale, another university with strong links to “the good bishop”. In a report calling on Yale to face up to its troubled history, they describe in detail the Irish scholar’s purchase of a plantation at Rhode Island, having travelled across the Atlantic to set up a missionary project.
     

    On October 4th, 1730, Berkeley purchased “a negro man named Philip aged 14 years or thereabout”. A few days later he purchased “a negro man named Edward aged 20 years or thereabouts”.
     
    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/what-to-do-about-george-berkeley-trinity-figurehead-and-slave-owner-1.4277555



    Obviously, in the name of racial equity and Wokeness, both the city and the university have to be re-named.Since Ibram X. Kendi is the greatest living thinker, he would be a good choice for the the new name....

    https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/149240351/authorphoto2019ibramkendicropped-1.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Clement Pulaski, @fish

    They could change the university (and city) name from Berleley to Berklee, like the music school on the east coast. Berklee is apparently named after a kid named Lee Eliot Berk, the son of the school’s founder, Lawrence Berk. Lee Eliot is not known to have owned slaves, having been born in the mid-20th century.

    “Berklee” also is black-friendly from a spelling standpoint.

    • Replies: @Alden
    @Anon

    But his 5th great grandparents may have owned a slave or two. Or owned a store that sold rope to a ship that transported slaves. Or worn cotton clothing.

    One never knows.

  15. @Ron Unz
    @danand


    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”
     
    Well, it could have been stranger...

    The SF activists renamed almost all the local schools honoring Hispanic figures, because all those Hispanics had been "bad" people, but they somehow avoided including Cesar Chavez in the mass purge, despite his notorious role as a leading anti-immigrant vigilante activist, as described in the SF Chronicle article:

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Abraham-Lincoln-was-once-a-hero-In-some-S-F-15798744.php

    As I'd written a decade ago:

    Consider, for example, the case of self-educated union activist Cesar Chavez, a liberal icon of the 1960s who today ranks as the top Latino figure in America’s progressive pantheon. During nearly his entire career, Chavez stood as a vigorous opponent of immigration, especially of the undocumented variety, repeatedly denouncing the failure of the government to enforce its immigration laws due to the pervasive influence of the business lobby and even occasionally organizing vigilante patrols at the Mexican border. Indeed, the Minutemen border activists of a few years back were merely following in Chavez’s footsteps and would have had every historical right to have named their organization the “Cesar Chavez Brigade.” I think a good case can be made that during his own era Chavez ranked as America’s foremost anti-immigration activist.
     
    https://www.unz.com/runz/immigration-republicans-and-the-end-of-white-america-singlepage/

    Replies: @Neil Templeton, @Neuday

    You are preaching to the choir, and whistling to the wind. It is done, the die is cast.

  16. @notsaying
    The linked CNN article quotes a university official explaining why this was done:

    "In her letter to the university president as to why the decision was being made, Christ stated that some of Kroeber's views and writings "clearly stand in opposition to our university's values of inclusion and our belief in promoting diversity and excellence."

    But the listed sins of Kroeber were connected with how he treated Indian remains and an Indian on campus, things that are utterly unconnected with inclusion, diversity and excellence. Sounds like the university always claims that, whether it is true or not. A faculty member who does seem to know what she is talking about sticks up for Kroeber but they are taking down his name anyhow.

    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Buffalo Joe, @ben tillman, @Cato

    Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    In these non-binary times you need to embrace the power of “and”.

  17. Immediately following 12/7, Earl Warren was California’s (if not the USA’s) most prominent voice for rounding up peaceful, innocent, Japanese-AMERICANS, from their homes up and down the west coast, and transferring them to inland, high desert camps.

    Earl Warren College makes up ~20% of University of California, San Diego.

    When will it be un-named?

    • Replies: @dearieme
    @Abolish_public_education

    But do Japanese matter? Why, in apartheid South Africa they counted as honorary whites.

  18. @danand
    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”

    ...as in United States Senator Diane Feinstein, former mayor of San Francisco.

    Feinstein, was added to the list for “reportedly” ordering a Confederate flag to be replaced after it had been torn down.

    “Parents and teachers at each school will have until April to propose new names, which must be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. Renaming the schools is expected to cost $440,000.”

    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”; not too many characters, already translated into most languages, easy to remember, and most important, to spell.

    Replies: @jon, @Ron Unz, @Hypnotoad666, @Mike Tre, @Alden

    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”;

    The Donald J. Trump Huge Best School Ever for Winners.

    • Agree: Kronos
    • LOL: Polistra
    • Replies: @Dieter Kief
    @Hypnotoad666


    The Donald J. Trump Huge Best School Ever for Winners
     
    for the BIGGEST Winners - that or: HUGE! - even better maybe: MOST HUGEST Winners - or would that last one be too much? - Donald Trump could decide. He might find the time now to solve these problems.

    Replies: @dearieme

    , @The Alarmist
    @Hypnotoad666

    How about The Most Excellent Donald Trump Hotel?

  19. I like seeing the Berkeley craziness, because it gets reported and helps wake up the normies.

    Except that had an entire summer of the Democrats’ street thuggery, riots and outright trashing of the rule-of-law, which in any semi-sane nation would have absolutely crushed the Democrats at the polls … but the normies took it all in and–whatever you think about election fraud–millions voted for Biden.

    • Agree: ic1000
    • Replies: @Anon
    @AnotherDad

    Enough normies lost their jobs because of Covid that they decided to vote for the party that offered the bigger safety net. That's what happens when people who work marginal jobs that offer salaries so low they can't save any money suddenly go over the cliff. They panic and want Big Daddy Government to rescue them. If we hadn't had Covid, Trump would likely have won the election.

    As for Kroeber, he got the ax because the average libtard hasn't even heard about him. All the libtards know is that he has a dangerous-sounding German name.

    , @JerseyJeffersonian
    @AnotherDad

    These "Biden" voters in reality chose to pay the Danegeld. As Mr. Franklin said, "Those who give up essential liberties to buy a little peace deserve neither". They thought that they were buying that looked for peace by paying the Danegeld, but they merely made more certain and more harsh the continued overlordship of today's version of the Danes.

  20. Kenosha should rename one of its high schools, “Kyle Rittenhouse Hero High”.

    • Agree: Bubba
    • Replies: @Old Prude
    @AnotherDad

    I am compiling a list of holidays I intend to celebrate by hanging out my Betsy Ross flags. January 6 (Ashley Babbitt Insurrection Day) is one, and August 25th (Kyle Rittenhouse Day) is another. April 15 and July 4 are still on the list, but barely given that I don't care to have my liberal neighbors think I support the American government.

    Will I still stand for the national anthem, or say the pledge of allegiance? Tough to say.

  21. Anon[418] • Disclaimer says:
    @AnotherDad
    I like seeing the Berkeley craziness, because it gets reported and helps wake up the normies.

    Except that had an entire summer of the Democrats' street thuggery, riots and outright trashing of the rule-of-law, which in any semi-sane nation would have absolutely crushed the Democrats at the polls ... but the normies took it all in and--whatever you think about election fraud--millions voted for Biden.

    Replies: @Anon, @JerseyJeffersonian

    Enough normies lost their jobs because of Covid that they decided to vote for the party that offered the bigger safety net. That’s what happens when people who work marginal jobs that offer salaries so low they can’t save any money suddenly go over the cliff. They panic and want Big Daddy Government to rescue them. If we hadn’t had Covid, Trump would likely have won the election.

    As for Kroeber, he got the ax because the average libtard hasn’t even heard about him. All the libtards know is that he has a dangerous-sounding German name.

  22. I can think of a few likely names currently under consideration to replace Lincoln, Roosevelt, Feinstein, et al:

    George Floyd High
    Michael Brown Elementary
    Ahmaud Arbery Middle

    • Replies: @Deckin
    @DiogenesNYC

    2+2=5 High School

  23. When I was there the Sather Tower from just above the 1st floor all the way to the observation deck was filled with Indian bones. That was what you saw from the elevator as you went up and down–open crates filled with Indian bones from some anthropology department project(s). Race science was once a major field of academic study and they would dig up entire Indian burial grounds and weigh the bones and measure the bones and whatnot.

    That can’t possibly be there any more.

    • Replies: @Michelle
    @Morton's toes

    I hope the bones have been repatriated. We didn't always act in a virtuous manner. Some times our large brains get us into trouble.

    , @Buffalo Joe
    @Morton's toes

    Mort, according to the article at Berkeleyside, Kroeber did little excavations. He did however record Indian language and preserve it. Read the article, he is not a pariah.

  24. Kroeber was one of your high-performing Germanic-Americans, Steve.

    Actually, history records him as a fine fellow, who was very interested in American Indians and treated them well. The agitators who got his name chiseled off the building which had been well-deservedly named after him are very low-class people, who just wanted to puff themselves up by counting coup on a man already long dead, whom they could therefore libel with impunity.

    • Agree: BB753
    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @Veracitor

    Vera, great phrase..."counting coup on a man already long dead." Dig him up and take his scalp too.

  25. Wasn’t Kroeber one of the guys to suggest the Indians arrived earlier than previously thought?

  26. @Anonymous
    https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1354091598964006912

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @Dan Hayes, @Bardon Kaldian, @El Dato, @International Jew, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    Titania McGrath has a Jewish cousin who’s a world-class meeskeit? Who knew?

    • LOL: Bardon Kaldian
  27. @Vince dillweed
    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    A women lost her job at a children's book seller for getting on parler

    The insurrectionists are all fired or getting prosecuted

    There children are turning them in

    Trump is going to jail

    Names are being changed

    Monuments are coming down

    Low income housing is going up in white areas

    white girls are hearing Children of Color

    SUPREME VICTORY

    Replies: @Stogumber, @The Alarmist, @Anonymous, @Neil Templeton, @ic1000, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910

    I admit that I feel uncomfortable. Reading so much about name changes among the famous people and their institutions (of course, it is good read, but …). And so little about life changes among the infamous people who are crushed now and who have no institutions to support them.

    • Agree: Desiderius
  28. @Farenheit
    As a Cal alum, rather than rename Evans Hall, I'd prefer the wrecking ball, and a start from scratch.

    Replies: @Humbert Humbert, @Deckin, @vinteuil, @syonredux

    So true. The office I shared with two other graduate students during my biostat PhD is located on the 3rd floor of Evans Hall, they are small/cramped rooms. The ugliest building on campus for sure. On the other hand the views from the western conference room on the last floor were breathtaking. Another shit thing about Evans hall was that from time to time was sharing an elevator ride with that goddamn ugly midget Robert Reich going to the econ. dept.

    • Replies: @Farenheit
    @Humbert Humbert

    I was taking a Naval architecture class in Evans the day the USS Enterprise ran aground returning to NAS Alameda. Everyone went to the window to see the ship sitting a little cockeyed in the mud waiting for the tide to come back in....but that building, 5000 tons of concrete and ugly!!

  29. @Anonymous
    https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1354091598964006912

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @Dan Hayes, @Bardon Kaldian, @El Dato, @International Jew, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    Brooke is trolling, albeit inadvertently!
    So chalk it up to her being a nitwit!

  30. @Hypnotoad666
    @danand


    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”;
     
    The Donald J. Trump Huge Best School Ever for Winners.

    Replies: @Dieter Kief, @The Alarmist

    The Donald J. Trump Huge Best School Ever for Winners

    for the BIGGEST Winners – that or: HUGE! – even better maybe: MOST HUGEST Winners – or would that last one be too much? – Donald Trump could decide. He might find the time now to solve these problems.

    • Replies: @dearieme
    @Dieter Kief

    Majorly HUGE.

  31. Kevin MacDonald should be happy. His three ogres of “Jewish supremacy” are Boas, Marx & Freud.

    Now, the principal Boas’ disciple is demonized & crucified.

    Yaaay …..

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    @Bardon Kaldian

    Sorry to have to break the news, but the only one of the Boas kamarilla still regularly qoted is Margaret Mead - not because anyone agrees with her but she was a hard worker and excellent observer.

    Also, most of the tribes she did are no longer with us :P

    Replies: @anon

  32. @Anonymous
    https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1354091598964006912

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @Dan Hayes, @Bardon Kaldian, @El Dato, @International Jew, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    Ahahahahh….this woman is priceless.

    https://www.newsweek.com/time-now-jewish-civil-rights-movement-opinion-1528578

    The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement | Opinion
    …………………………………………

    Perhaps our greatest failure has been the absence of significant civil rights advocacy through the courts, or impact litigation. One of the best things about American democracy is the citizenry’s ability to effectuate societal change through the legal system. Roe v. Wade codified women’s right to choose. Brown v. Board of Education judicially mandated desegregation. Most recently, Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed marriage equality. You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community.

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.

    • LOL: HammerJack
    • Replies: @ben tillman
    @Bardon Kaldian


    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of anyone other than Jews.
     
    Fixed it for her. And there still isn't.
    , @fish
    @Bardon Kaldian

    Self awareness doesn't seem to be her thing.

    , @Gary in Gramercy
    @Bardon Kaldian

    I read the entire Newsweek op-ed. It's almost certainly not Titania, but someone far more disturbing. (Would anyone at Newsweek be able to tell the difference?)

    I have to ask, though: she writes, "You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community."

    Has she forgotten Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971)?

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Bardon Kaldian


    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.
     
    Other than the United States Senate, that is.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    , @Rob McX
    @Bardon Kaldian

    Perhaps this neglected ethnic group could try to gain more influence by securing a Cabinet appointment or two, or maybe purchase a media outlet.

  33. @Anonymous
    https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1354091598964006912

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @Dan Hayes, @Bardon Kaldian, @El Dato, @International Jew, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    “All of this has happened before and it will happen again.”

  34. @Vince dillweed
    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    A women lost her job at a children's book seller for getting on parler

    The insurrectionists are all fired or getting prosecuted

    There children are turning them in

    Trump is going to jail

    Names are being changed

    Monuments are coming down

    Low income housing is going up in white areas

    white girls are hearing Children of Color

    SUPREME VICTORY

    Replies: @Stogumber, @The Alarmist, @Anonymous, @Neil Templeton, @ic1000, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910

    Tiny D, is that you?

  35. @Hypnotoad666
    @danand


    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”;
     
    The Donald J. Trump Huge Best School Ever for Winners.

    Replies: @Dieter Kief, @The Alarmist

    How about The Most Excellent Donald Trump Hotel?

  36. @Anonymous
    https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1354091598964006912

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @Dan Hayes, @Bardon Kaldian, @El Dato, @International Jew, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    Hubba hubba. There are gonna be a lot of Jewish uprisings under the pants of guys just looking at her picture.

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @International Jew


    Hubba hubba.
     
    https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61e86ecf81e077b3561daa/1523568988039-FLCJ3ZHCP0COFASMG496/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kKaw-yiWCUT_dIkH-tML1b17gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QHyNOqBUUEtDDsRWrJLTmgbBA9KfxWpJIziZzus6eiKk2902cuAFAxZ2IsJyg1YVeZUliRyJ_WuC65h3JNMsj/Goldstein-correct.jpg
    https://www.thelawfareproject.org/who-we-are

    Replies: @fish

  37. @Kronos
    Blank slater just got blank slated.

    Replies: @International Jew

    Nice. You could also say that Kroeber got crowbarred off the building.

    • Agree: Kronos
  38. @Anon
    @syonredux

    They could change the university (and city) name from Berleley to Berklee, like the music school on the east coast. Berklee is apparently named after a kid named Lee Eliot Berk, the son of the school's founder, Lawrence Berk. Lee Eliot is not known to have owned slaves, having been born in the mid-20th century.

    "Berklee" also is black-friendly from a spelling standpoint.

    Replies: @Alden

    But his 5th great grandparents may have owned a slave or two. Or owned a store that sold rope to a ship that transported slaves. Or worn cotton clothing.

    One never knows.

    • LOL: Buffalo Joe
  39. @Daniel Williams
    Asking for directions ca. 2023: “Which King high school?”

    And OT, but any thoughts about Ricky Vaughn, Steve? The feds arrested him today for tweeting memes five years ago.

    Replies: @Polistra

    Asking for directions ca. 2023: “Which King high school?”

    Asking for directions, ca 2028: “What’s a high school?”

    Giving directions, ca. 2032: “开始工作你懒牛”

  40. @Vince dillweed
    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    A women lost her job at a children's book seller for getting on parler

    The insurrectionists are all fired or getting prosecuted

    There children are turning them in

    Trump is going to jail

    Names are being changed

    Monuments are coming down

    Low income housing is going up in white areas

    white girls are hearing Children of Color

    SUPREME VICTORY

    Replies: @Stogumber, @The Alarmist, @Anonymous, @Neil Templeton, @ic1000, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910

    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    He isn’t a “troll” and he isn’t “right wing.” He is an intellectual and a pundit. And an American who loves his country.

  41. @Bardon Kaldian
    Kevin MacDonald should be happy. His three ogres of "Jewish supremacy" are Boas, Marx & Freud.

    Now, the principal Boas' disciple is demonized & crucified.

    Yaaay .....

    Replies: @nokangaroos

    Sorry to have to break the news, but the only one of the Boas kamarilla still regularly qoted is Margaret Mead – not because anyone agrees with her but she was a hard worker and excellent observer.

    Also, most of the tribes she did are no longer with us 😛

    • Replies: @anon
    @nokangaroos

    Sorry to have to break the news, but the only one of the Boas kamarilla still regularly qoted is Margaret Mead – not because anyone agrees with her but she was a hard worker and excellent observer. dedicated fabulist and sexual libertine who embraced the Boazian Blank Slate with religious fervor

    FIFY.

    Also, most of the tribes she did are no longer with us

    Yeah, about that.

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201702/margaret-mead-and-the-great-samoan-nurture-hoax


    Mead portrayed the Samoans as “one of the most amiable, least contentious, and most peaceful peoples in the world,” adding that “In Samoa love between the sexes is a light and pleasant dance,” and that male sexuality “is never defined as aggressiveness that must be curbed.” Indeed, she claimed that “the idea of forceful rape or of any sexual act to which both participants do not give themselves freely is completely foreign to the Samoan mind,” remarking that young girls had “as many years of casual love-making as possible.”
     

    Then in the 1960s, another anthropologist, Derek Freeman, “went to Samoa a ‘fervent believer’ in the ethnography of Coming of Age as well as in the ideology of cultural anthropology.” But what he actually discovered was that, far from Samoans being among the most peaceable people in the world, serious assault in mid-1960s Western Samoa was 67 percent higher than in the USA, 494 percent higher than in Australia, and 847 percent higher than in New Zealand, while common assault was 500 percent that of the USA.
     
    ...

    Whereas Mead claimed that Samoa was permissive about adolescent sex, there was in fact a cult of virginity; where Mead described adultery as “not regarded as very serious” by Samoans, Freeman reports that adultery was punished by death before colonization and by heavy fines afterwards; and that contrary to her portrayal of it, the pattern of adolescent crime was much the same there as anywhere else.
     
    ...

    On the basis of a few dozen interviews with 25 adolescent girls carried out in the back room of a US Navy dispensary—there is no evidence she ever interviewed a boy—and a few touristic excursions around the islands, Mead purported to give an authoritative account of a complete culture, which she described as "a precious permanent possession of mankind… Forever true because no truer picture could be made," adding portentously, "true to the state of human behavior as it was in the mid 1920s; true to our hopes and fears for the future of the world."
     


    tl;dr
    Magaret Mead told certain people what they wanted to hear, and provided stories to support the utterly false and anti-scientific "blank slate" theory. The rest is hysteria.
  42. @notsaying
    The linked CNN article quotes a university official explaining why this was done:

    "In her letter to the university president as to why the decision was being made, Christ stated that some of Kroeber's views and writings "clearly stand in opposition to our university's values of inclusion and our belief in promoting diversity and excellence."

    But the listed sins of Kroeber were connected with how he treated Indian remains and an Indian on campus, things that are utterly unconnected with inclusion, diversity and excellence. Sounds like the university always claims that, whether it is true or not. A faculty member who does seem to know what she is talking about sticks up for Kroeber but they are taking down his name anyhow.

    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Buffalo Joe, @ben tillman, @Cato

    Christ stated that

    It ain’t reported in the Gospels.

    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @dearieme

    dearieme, hmmm, to a lot of people the name Christ might be offensive. Wait, not might be but is! Change her name. Change her name.

  43. @Abolish_public_education
    Immediately following 12/7, Earl Warren was California’s (if not the USA’s) most prominent voice for rounding up peaceful, innocent, Japanese-AMERICANS, from their homes up and down the west coast, and transferring them to inland, high desert camps.

    Earl Warren College makes up ~20% of University of California, San Diego.

    When will it be un-named?

    Replies: @dearieme

    But do Japanese matter? Why, in apartheid South Africa they counted as honorary whites.

  44. @Dieter Kief
    @Hypnotoad666


    The Donald J. Trump Huge Best School Ever for Winners
     
    for the BIGGEST Winners - that or: HUGE! - even better maybe: MOST HUGEST Winners - or would that last one be too much? - Donald Trump could decide. He might find the time now to solve these problems.

    Replies: @dearieme

    Majorly HUGE.

  45. @Morton's toes
    When I was there the Sather Tower from just above the 1st floor all the way to the observation deck was filled with Indian bones. That was what you saw from the elevator as you went up and down--open crates filled with Indian bones from some anthropology department project(s). Race science was once a major field of academic study and they would dig up entire Indian burial grounds and weigh the bones and measure the bones and whatnot.

    That can't possibly be there any more.

    https://hr.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/styles/openberkeley_image_full/public/general/uc-berkeley-sather-tower-the-campanile-clock-tower-7d10059-wingsdomain-art-and-photography.jpg

    Replies: @Michelle, @Buffalo Joe

    I hope the bones have been repatriated. We didn’t always act in a virtuous manner. Some times our large brains get us into trouble.

  46. @notsaying
    The linked CNN article quotes a university official explaining why this was done:

    "In her letter to the university president as to why the decision was being made, Christ stated that some of Kroeber's views and writings "clearly stand in opposition to our university's values of inclusion and our belief in promoting diversity and excellence."

    But the listed sins of Kroeber were connected with how he treated Indian remains and an Indian on campus, things that are utterly unconnected with inclusion, diversity and excellence. Sounds like the university always claims that, whether it is true or not. A faculty member who does seem to know what she is talking about sticks up for Kroeber but they are taking down his name anyhow.

    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Buffalo Joe, @ben tillman, @Cato

    notsaying, better read by going to Berkeleyside. And read the comments too. I would have linked the article but I don’t know how. Stay safe.

    • Replies: @danand
    @Buffalo Joe

    "I would have linked the article..."

    Buffalo Joe, you're right, a few on the point comments.

    https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/01/27/uc-berkeleys-kroeber-hall-is-fourth-building-in-1-year-to-be-stripped-of-its-name


    As an ode to righting this particular perceived wrong; the name of one of the aggrieved would do:

    Cheyanne Two Feather Tex - (the person picture Right, or is "they" the one Left?)

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwF8Pe


    Meet the Kroebers, seem decent?

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFaMh

    And their replacement, oh the humanity, or be that humanities?

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwBZz6

    An upside from all the desecration is that this regular Joe is unlikely to suffer from idle hands anytime soon:

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFGS3

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwGfJA

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwGfKh


    The replacement signage could be brought more inline with the times; change the name every 15 minutes.

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFUAo

    Replies: @Alden, @Buffalo Joe, @syonredux

  47. @Morton's toes
    When I was there the Sather Tower from just above the 1st floor all the way to the observation deck was filled with Indian bones. That was what you saw from the elevator as you went up and down--open crates filled with Indian bones from some anthropology department project(s). Race science was once a major field of academic study and they would dig up entire Indian burial grounds and weigh the bones and measure the bones and whatnot.

    That can't possibly be there any more.

    https://hr.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/styles/openberkeley_image_full/public/general/uc-berkeley-sather-tower-the-campanile-clock-tower-7d10059-wingsdomain-art-and-photography.jpg

    Replies: @Michelle, @Buffalo Joe

    Mort, according to the article at Berkeleyside, Kroeber did little excavations. He did however record Indian language and preserve it. Read the article, he is not a pariah.

  48. @Veracitor
    Kroeber was one of your high-performing Germanic-Americans, Steve.

    Actually, history records him as a fine fellow, who was very interested in American Indians and treated them well. The agitators who got his name chiseled off the building which had been well-deservedly named after him are very low-class people, who just wanted to puff themselves up by counting coup on a man already long dead, whom they could therefore libel with impunity.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    Vera, great phrase…”counting coup on a man already long dead.” Dig him up and take his scalp too.

  49. Where’s the limit? The nation’s capital should be renamed too, since Washington and pretty much all the founding fathers owned slaves. How about Martin Luther King City? Obama City?

    • Replies: @Old Palo Altan
    @BB753

    Their intentions are to tear down every statue and to rename every building.
    I think it very likely that the Jefferson Memorial will be renamed within two years. Then Washington, and finally Lincoln, with all sorts of smaller fry (isn't there a Reagan building?) in between.

    My Chinese friends tell me they've seen it all before. To a man, they marvel at our childlike naiveté.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    , @Alden
    @BB753

    Obama’s ancestors on his communist mother owned side owned slaves . Plus he’s descended on commie mommy’s side from a Pilgrim who arrived Plymouth colony 1623. One of the Pilgrims who massacred Indians stole their land and imported African slaves.

    Bad, bad Obama. I’ve always wondered if he or one of his handlers killed his commie mommy to hide his White half. And if his handlers selected Michelle not for her race but her very dark skin.
    FYI, they met at a Jewish law firm. Ms affirmative action didn’t practice law. She was the diversity recruiter and intern supervisor.

  50. @Vince dillweed
    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    A women lost her job at a children's book seller for getting on parler

    The insurrectionists are all fired or getting prosecuted

    There children are turning them in

    Trump is going to jail

    Names are being changed

    Monuments are coming down

    Low income housing is going up in white areas

    white girls are hearing Children of Color

    SUPREME VICTORY

    Replies: @Stogumber, @The Alarmist, @Anonymous, @Neil Templeton, @ic1000, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910

    Thanks, Teal. Neil

  51. @syonredux
    Yeah, but that still means that UC Berkeley is named after a slave-owner:

    Berkeley (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California

    But he has a stain on his record, as documented in 2001 by a group of graduate students from Yale, another university with strong links to “the good bishop”. In a report calling on Yale to face up to its troubled history, they describe in detail the Irish scholar’s purchase of a plantation at Rhode Island, having travelled across the Atlantic to set up a missionary project.
     

    On October 4th, 1730, Berkeley purchased “a negro man named Philip aged 14 years or thereabout”. A few days later he purchased “a negro man named Edward aged 20 years or thereabouts”.
     
    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/what-to-do-about-george-berkeley-trinity-figurehead-and-slave-owner-1.4277555



    Obviously, in the name of racial equity and Wokeness, both the city and the university have to be re-named.Since Ibram X. Kendi is the greatest living thinker, he would be a good choice for the the new name....

    https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/149240351/authorphoto2019ibramkendicropped-1.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Clement Pulaski, @fish

    Not to mention the reason why they chose Berkeley for their namesake:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California

    ‘According to the Centennial Record of the University of California, “In 1866…at Founders’ Rock, a group of College of California men watched two ships standing out to sea through the Golden Gate. One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, ‘westward the course of empire takes its way,’ and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher.”‘

    The city’s name was literally conceived as honoring the most westerly extent of the empire of European man.

    And then the Berkeley city seal

  52. @danand
    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”

    ...as in United States Senator Diane Feinstein, former mayor of San Francisco.

    Feinstein, was added to the list for “reportedly” ordering a Confederate flag to be replaced after it had been torn down.

    “Parents and teachers at each school will have until April to propose new names, which must be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. Renaming the schools is expected to cost $440,000.”

    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”; not too many characters, already translated into most languages, easy to remember, and most important, to spell.

    Replies: @jon, @Ron Unz, @Hypnotoad666, @Mike Tre, @Alden

    How about The Unz School of Predictable Outcomes?

  53. @Vince dillweed
    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    A women lost her job at a children's book seller for getting on parler

    The insurrectionists are all fired or getting prosecuted

    There children are turning them in

    Trump is going to jail

    Names are being changed

    Monuments are coming down

    Low income housing is going up in white areas

    white girls are hearing Children of Color

    SUPREME VICTORY

    Replies: @Stogumber, @The Alarmist, @Anonymous, @Neil Templeton, @ic1000, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910

    > white girls are hearing Children of Color

    Do you mean that w[sic]hite girls are hearing aristocratic B[sic]lack children reciting childish poetry? As a viewer of NBC Evening News With Lester Holt, I can confirm the truth of that.

    Or do you speaking metaphorically? The last thing white girls women Caitlyn Kaufman and Kayla Chapman “heard” came from the “Children of Color” who snuffed out their lives.

    Clarification please, TD.

  54. @Anonymous
    https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1354091598964006912

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @Dan Hayes, @Bardon Kaldian, @El Dato, @International Jew, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    Aww how cute, Jack D gave one of his new associates a twitter account.

  55. @notsaying
    The linked CNN article quotes a university official explaining why this was done:

    "In her letter to the university president as to why the decision was being made, Christ stated that some of Kroeber's views and writings "clearly stand in opposition to our university's values of inclusion and our belief in promoting diversity and excellence."

    But the listed sins of Kroeber were connected with how he treated Indian remains and an Indian on campus, things that are utterly unconnected with inclusion, diversity and excellence. Sounds like the university always claims that, whether it is true or not. A faculty member who does seem to know what she is talking about sticks up for Kroeber but they are taking down his name anyhow.

    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Buffalo Joe, @ben tillman, @Cato

    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    No one TODAY meets all of today’s standards.

    • Agree: kaganovitch, VivaLaMigra
  56. @syonredux
    Yeah, but that still means that UC Berkeley is named after a slave-owner:

    Berkeley (/ˈbɜːrkli/ BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California

    But he has a stain on his record, as documented in 2001 by a group of graduate students from Yale, another university with strong links to “the good bishop”. In a report calling on Yale to face up to its troubled history, they describe in detail the Irish scholar’s purchase of a plantation at Rhode Island, having travelled across the Atlantic to set up a missionary project.
     

    On October 4th, 1730, Berkeley purchased “a negro man named Philip aged 14 years or thereabout”. A few days later he purchased “a negro man named Edward aged 20 years or thereabouts”.
     
    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/what-to-do-about-george-berkeley-trinity-figurehead-and-slave-owner-1.4277555



    Obviously, in the name of racial equity and Wokeness, both the city and the university have to be re-named.Since Ibram X. Kendi is the greatest living thinker, he would be a good choice for the the new name....

    https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/149240351/authorphoto2019ibramkendicropped-1.jpg

    Replies: @Anon, @Clement Pulaski, @fish

    I’m onboard…..but only if he uses his real name….plain old Henry Rogers.

  57. @Bardon Kaldian
    @Anonymous

    Ahahahahh....this woman is priceless.

    https://www.newsweek.com/time-now-jewish-civil-rights-movement-opinion-1528578

    The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement | Opinion
    ................................................


    Perhaps our greatest failure has been the absence of significant civil rights advocacy through the courts, or impact litigation. One of the best things about American democracy is the citizenry's ability to effectuate societal change through the legal system. Roe v. Wade codified women's right to choose. Brown v. Board of Education judicially mandated desegregation. Most recently, Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed marriage equality. You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community.

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.
     
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/fe/40/80fe4019000f33a4c61d4862069ca92b.gif

    Replies: @ben tillman, @fish, @Gary in Gramercy, @Reg Cæsar, @Rob McX

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of anyone other than Jews.

    Fixed it for her. And there still isn’t.

  58. @Bardon Kaldian
    @Anonymous

    Ahahahahh....this woman is priceless.

    https://www.newsweek.com/time-now-jewish-civil-rights-movement-opinion-1528578

    The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement | Opinion
    ................................................


    Perhaps our greatest failure has been the absence of significant civil rights advocacy through the courts, or impact litigation. One of the best things about American democracy is the citizenry's ability to effectuate societal change through the legal system. Roe v. Wade codified women's right to choose. Brown v. Board of Education judicially mandated desegregation. Most recently, Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed marriage equality. You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community.

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.
     
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/fe/40/80fe4019000f33a4c61d4862069ca92b.gif

    Replies: @ben tillman, @fish, @Gary in Gramercy, @Reg Cæsar, @Rob McX

    Self awareness doesn’t seem to be her thing.

  59. @Humbert Humbert
    @Farenheit

    So true. The office I shared with two other graduate students during my biostat PhD is located on the 3rd floor of Evans Hall, they are small/cramped rooms. The ugliest building on campus for sure. On the other hand the views from the western conference room on the last floor were breathtaking. Another shit thing about Evans hall was that from time to time was sharing an elevator ride with that goddamn ugly midget Robert Reich going to the econ. dept.

    Replies: @Farenheit

    I was taking a Naval architecture class in Evans the day the USS Enterprise ran aground returning to NAS Alameda. Everyone went to the window to see the ship sitting a little cockeyed in the mud waiting for the tide to come back in….but that building, 5000 tons of concrete and ugly!!

  60. @AnotherDad
    I like seeing the Berkeley craziness, because it gets reported and helps wake up the normies.

    Except that had an entire summer of the Democrats' street thuggery, riots and outright trashing of the rule-of-law, which in any semi-sane nation would have absolutely crushed the Democrats at the polls ... but the normies took it all in and--whatever you think about election fraud--millions voted for Biden.

    Replies: @Anon, @JerseyJeffersonian

    These “Biden” voters in reality chose to pay the Danegeld. As Mr. Franklin said, “Those who give up essential liberties to buy a little peace deserve neither”. They thought that they were buying that looked for peace by paying the Danegeld, but they merely made more certain and more harsh the continued overlordship of today’s version of the Danes.

  61. @Bardon Kaldian
    @Anonymous

    Ahahahahh....this woman is priceless.

    https://www.newsweek.com/time-now-jewish-civil-rights-movement-opinion-1528578

    The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement | Opinion
    ................................................


    Perhaps our greatest failure has been the absence of significant civil rights advocacy through the courts, or impact litigation. One of the best things about American democracy is the citizenry's ability to effectuate societal change through the legal system. Roe v. Wade codified women's right to choose. Brown v. Board of Education judicially mandated desegregation. Most recently, Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed marriage equality. You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community.

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.
     
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/fe/40/80fe4019000f33a4c61d4862069ca92b.gif

    Replies: @ben tillman, @fish, @Gary in Gramercy, @Reg Cæsar, @Rob McX

    I read the entire Newsweek op-ed. It’s almost certainly not Titania, but someone far more disturbing. (Would anyone at Newsweek be able to tell the difference?)

    I have to ask, though: she writes, “You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community.”

    Has she forgotten Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971)?

  62. What TF is in a name, anyway? All the buildings on a campus, whether they house classrooms or dormitories, are typically called “Something Hall.” Students rarely care about the individual whose name is chiseled into, or bolted onto, the front of the building. One dormitory on my campus bore the name “G. Stanley Hall.” Well, it turns out that it was named after a doctor or professor named, appropriately enough, “G. Stanley Hall.” But, the school didn’t bolt “G. Stanley Hall Hall” onto the facade; it was just “G. Stanley Hall,” officially. But, since it was in a dorm complex next to a dining “hall” named “Dana Hall” it was always called “Dana Men’s”. Moral: if you’re a prominent academic or a mega-donor and want a building named after you, and your surname is “Hall” – change your name.

  63. @Anonymous
    https://twitter.com/GoldsteinBrooke/status/1354091598964006912

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @Dan Hayes, @Bardon Kaldian, @El Dato, @International Jew, @Mike Tre, @Mr. Anon

    The time is NOW for a Jewish uprising against the systemic discrimination we have faced as a minority community in both eastern & western cultures. We will NO LONGER accept second class status and bigoted discrimination due to our ethnic and cultural identity.

    Indeed, how much longer will this helpless people be a detested minority living in the shadows – eking out a pitiful existence on the margins of society. It’s time they had a place at the table!

  64. @Farenheit
    As a Cal alum, rather than rename Evans Hall, I'd prefer the wrecking ball, and a start from scratch.

    Replies: @Humbert Humbert, @Deckin, @vinteuil, @syonredux

    When I was there as an undergrad, the math TAs would try to build Evans Hall into all of their problems: calculating rocket trajectories to destroy it, etc.

  65. @DiogenesNYC
    I can think of a few likely names currently under consideration to replace Lincoln, Roosevelt, Feinstein, et al:

    George Floyd High
    Michael Brown Elementary
    Ahmaud Arbery Middle

    Replies: @Deckin

    2+2=5 High School

  66. @Ron Unz
    @danand


    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”
     
    Well, it could have been stranger...

    The SF activists renamed almost all the local schools honoring Hispanic figures, because all those Hispanics had been "bad" people, but they somehow avoided including Cesar Chavez in the mass purge, despite his notorious role as a leading anti-immigrant vigilante activist, as described in the SF Chronicle article:

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Abraham-Lincoln-was-once-a-hero-In-some-S-F-15798744.php

    As I'd written a decade ago:

    Consider, for example, the case of self-educated union activist Cesar Chavez, a liberal icon of the 1960s who today ranks as the top Latino figure in America’s progressive pantheon. During nearly his entire career, Chavez stood as a vigorous opponent of immigration, especially of the undocumented variety, repeatedly denouncing the failure of the government to enforce its immigration laws due to the pervasive influence of the business lobby and even occasionally organizing vigilante patrols at the Mexican border. Indeed, the Minutemen border activists of a few years back were merely following in Chavez’s footsteps and would have had every historical right to have named their organization the “Cesar Chavez Brigade.” I think a good case can be made that during his own era Chavez ranked as America’s foremost anti-immigration activist.
     
    https://www.unz.com/runz/immigration-republicans-and-the-end-of-white-america-singlepage/

    Replies: @Neil Templeton, @Neuday

    Considering California’s demographics, they should rename the schools for Aztec chiefs. Wouldn’t it be fun to hear the few blacks pronouncing names like:

    Acamapichtli
    Huitzilihuitl
    Chimalpopoca
    Itzcóhuatl
    Motecuzoma Ilhuicamina (and not Montezuma, it was the Spaniards who called him like this because they couldn’t pronounce it)
    Axayácatl
    Tizoc (this does sound like a Black High School)
    Ahuítzotl
    Motecuzoma Xocoyotl (the one who first met the Spaniards)
    Cuitlahuac

    • LOL: TomSchmidt
    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @Neuday

    Neuday, if this was the Root website instead of iSteve, you would have just provided a new list of unpronounceable names for black mommas. Need a few more hyphens and apostrophes.

    , @Getaclue
    @Neuday

    Appropriate given the amount of human sacrifice (abortion) ongoing....

  67. Renaming these obscure schools and halls and parks is easy. C’mon, sissies: Rename Washington DC, or Yale, or Columbia, or like another commenter suggested, San Fransisco. Let’s get on with it! What’s taking so long?

  68. @Vince dillweed
    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    A women lost her job at a children's book seller for getting on parler

    The insurrectionists are all fired or getting prosecuted

    There children are turning them in

    Trump is going to jail

    Names are being changed

    Monuments are coming down

    Low income housing is going up in white areas

    white girls are hearing Children of Color

    SUPREME VICTORY

    Replies: @Stogumber, @The Alarmist, @Anonymous, @Neil Templeton, @ic1000, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910

    • Agree: Bubba
    • Thanks: black sea
  69. @AnotherDad
    Kenosha should rename one of its high schools, "Kyle Rittenhouse Hero High".

    Replies: @Old Prude

    I am compiling a list of holidays I intend to celebrate by hanging out my Betsy Ross flags. January 6 (Ashley Babbitt Insurrection Day) is one, and August 25th (Kyle Rittenhouse Day) is another. April 15 and July 4 are still on the list, but barely given that I don’t care to have my liberal neighbors think I support the American government.

    Will I still stand for the national anthem, or say the pledge of allegiance? Tough to say.

  70. @Vince dillweed
    The right wing troll Ricky Vaughn is facing up to 10 years in prison for fraud

    A women lost her job at a children's book seller for getting on parler

    The insurrectionists are all fired or getting prosecuted

    There children are turning them in

    Trump is going to jail

    Names are being changed

    Monuments are coming down

    Low income housing is going up in white areas

    white girls are hearing Children of Color

    SUPREME VICTORY

    Replies: @Stogumber, @The Alarmist, @Anonymous, @Neil Templeton, @ic1000, @Reg Cæsar, @MEH 0910

    SUPREME VICTORY

  71. @Bardon Kaldian
    @Anonymous

    Ahahahahh....this woman is priceless.

    https://www.newsweek.com/time-now-jewish-civil-rights-movement-opinion-1528578

    The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement | Opinion
    ................................................


    Perhaps our greatest failure has been the absence of significant civil rights advocacy through the courts, or impact litigation. One of the best things about American democracy is the citizenry's ability to effectuate societal change through the legal system. Roe v. Wade codified women's right to choose. Brown v. Board of Education judicially mandated desegregation. Most recently, Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed marriage equality. You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community.

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.
     
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/fe/40/80fe4019000f33a4c61d4862069ca92b.gif

    Replies: @ben tillman, @fish, @Gary in Gramercy, @Reg Cæsar, @Rob McX

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.

    Other than the United States Senate, that is.

    • Agree: Bubba, HammerJack
    • LOL: Buffalo Joe
    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @Reg Cæsar

    Reg, One sentence Gold Border worthy.

  72. @Bardon Kaldian
    @Anonymous

    Ahahahahh....this woman is priceless.

    https://www.newsweek.com/time-now-jewish-civil-rights-movement-opinion-1528578

    The Time Is Now for a Jewish Civil Rights Movement | Opinion
    ................................................


    Perhaps our greatest failure has been the absence of significant civil rights advocacy through the courts, or impact litigation. One of the best things about American democracy is the citizenry's ability to effectuate societal change through the legal system. Roe v. Wade codified women's right to choose. Brown v. Board of Education judicially mandated desegregation. Most recently, Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed marriage equality. You would be hard-pressed to name a seminal Jewish civil rights case, despite the disproportionate number of lawyers in our community.

    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.
     
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/fe/40/80fe4019000f33a4c61d4862069ca92b.gif

    Replies: @ben tillman, @fish, @Gary in Gramercy, @Reg Cæsar, @Rob McX

    Perhaps this neglected ethnic group could try to gain more influence by securing a Cabinet appointment or two, or maybe purchase a media outlet.

  73. @jon
    @danand

    Just do like New York does and give every school a number. Might as well start the demoralization early.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Richard B

    Just do like New York does and give every school a number. Might as well start the demoralization early.

    Just make sure PS 4 isn’t in Chinatown. Or PS 39 in Afghan Alley. (Or is that in Berkeley?)

  74. @International Jew
    @Anonymous

    Hubba hubba. There are gonna be a lot of Jewish uprisings under the pants of guys just looking at her picture.

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    • Replies: @fish
    @MEH 0910

    Probably not worth having to listen to her talk constantly......

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  75. Bari Weiss is getting concerned that all this Woke stuff is bad for the Jews:

    Thread: There is no more important story in the Jewish world this month. Read it. You think you know how bad the California ethnic studies curriculum. It’s way, way worse. And it affects millions of children:

    California’s schools are mandating the erasure of Jews and the acceptance of anti-Zionism. I blame every single American Jewish leader who didn’t bang on about this every single day. Every single one.

    California Is Cleansing Jews From History

    But three years later, when the first draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) was released, Kaplan couldn’t believe what she was reading. In one sample lesson, she saw that a list of historic U.S. social movements—ones like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Criminal Justice Reform—also included the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement for Palestine (BDS), described as a “global social movement that currently aims to establish freedom for Palestinians living under apartheid conditions.” Kaplan wondered why a foreign movement, whose target was another country, would be mischaracterized as a domestic social movement, and she was shocked that in a curriculum that would be taught to millions of students, BDS’s primary goal—the elimination of Israel—was not mentioned. Kaplan also saw that the 1948 Israel War of Independence was only referred to as the “Nakba”—“catastrophe” in Arabic—and Arabic verses included in the sample lessons were insulting and provocative to Jews.

    Capitalism was classified as a form of “power and oppression,” and although “classism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and transphobia” were also listed as forms of oppression, anti-Semitism was not. Jewish Americans were not even mentioned as a minority group.

    It didn’t take long for Kaplan to realize that the education offered up by the ESMC had little in common with the program described at the time of the law’s passage. Instead, it was a crude pastiche of idiosyncratic neo-Marxism that advocated the end of capitalism and divided the world into a simple polarity of victims and oppressors. The victims, according to this schema, included four groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx, and Native Americans.

    As a refugee from the Soviet Union, she understood the challenge intimately. “The reason I’m doing this—full time and not sleeping” she said, is that “this curriculum is pervasive and all-inclusive. It creates a means of understanding the world that does not allow questioning. And it’s a view that actively invites anti-Zionism into the classroom. It requires it. This is the greatest threat facing American Jews today.”

    The California Legislative Jewish caucus published a letter saying the ESMC “effectively erases the American Jewish experience.”

    Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of AMCHA Initiative, which fights campus anti-Semitism, points out that all 13 founding members of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) are BDS activists. CESA, the national home base for critical studies, passed a resolution to boycott all Israeli academic institutions in 2014, and the group’s past four biennial meetings included multiple sessions demonizing Israel. “There are a couple thousand academic boycotters of Israel in the country,” she said, “and the largest percentage of them come from ethnic studies. Anti-Zionism is built into the theory and the discipline of ethnic studies, which demonizes Israel as an apartheid settler-colonialist Nazi state.”

    But of even greater concern to Jews, she believes, is the singling out of Jewish students as enjoying racial privilege. “I don’t see any way that Jewish students can sit in an ethnic studies class and not feel they have a double target on their backs,” she said, fearing hatred and violence will ensue. First, because they’re Jewish, and considered white and part of the 1%, the purported villains of the teaching, and then through an assumed association with Israel. “There’s a state requirement that you have to sit through a class that says to Jewish students they have extraordinary racial privilege and yet forbids them from speaking because ‘this course is not about you?’ If you don’t accept it, you’re publicly shamed and ostracized—you can’t even speak up and say, ‘I’m not sure if I think that all white people are racists.’”

    To placate critics, the third version has added lessons about Korean Americans, Armenian Americans, and Sikhs. Two lessons have been offered about Jews. One, following crude CRT dogma, teaches that Mizrahi Jews coming to the United States from Arab lands were mistreated by “white” Ashkenazim. The other suggests that Jews of European descent have white privilege.

    The Jewish Journal points out that Jews are the only group in the curriculum for whom the term “privilege” is used. And this privilege is not earned by way of talent, or educational and professional attainment, but rather trickery. The ESMC, echoing Nazi propaganda about Jews as impostors and appropriators hiding in plain sight, points out that American Jews often change their names (“this practice of name-changing continues to the present day”) to change their rank in the social hierarchy.

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/california-ethnic-studies-curriculum

    • Replies: @Abolish_public_education
    @syonredux

    Public education was sold, to a gullible voting public, by claiming that without it, poor kids would never learn to read.

    By golly, democracy itself depended on voters being able to read the names on the ballot.

    And here we are.

    , @nokangaroos
    @syonredux

    tl;dr:

    "It is to everybody´s eternal shame it is not illegal to notice Israel is doing openly what they accused the Big Bad Nazis of in the most fevered anti-German tracts."

    If the chickens come home to roost, make kapores.

  76. @syonredux
    Bari Weiss is getting concerned that all this Woke stuff is bad for the Jews:

    Thread: There is no more important story in the Jewish world this month. Read it. You think you know how bad the California ethnic studies curriculum. It's way, way worse. And it affects millions of children:
     

    California's schools are mandating the erasure of Jews and the acceptance of anti-Zionism. I blame every single American Jewish leader who didn't bang on about this every single day. Every single one.
     
    https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1354838956844617732


    California Is Cleansing Jews From History

    But three years later, when the first draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) was released, Kaplan couldn’t believe what she was reading. In one sample lesson, she saw that a list of historic U.S. social movements—ones like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Criminal Justice Reform—also included the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement for Palestine (BDS), described as a “global social movement that currently aims to establish freedom for Palestinians living under apartheid conditions.” Kaplan wondered why a foreign movement, whose target was another country, would be mischaracterized as a domestic social movement, and she was shocked that in a curriculum that would be taught to millions of students, BDS’s primary goal—the elimination of Israel—was not mentioned. Kaplan also saw that the 1948 Israel War of Independence was only referred to as the “Nakba”—“catastrophe” in Arabic—and Arabic verses included in the sample lessons were insulting and provocative to Jews.
     

    Capitalism was classified as a form of “power and oppression,” and although “classism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and transphobia” were also listed as forms of oppression, anti-Semitism was not. Jewish Americans were not even mentioned as a minority group.
     

    It didn’t take long for Kaplan to realize that the education offered up by the ESMC had little in common with the program described at the time of the law’s passage. Instead, it was a crude pastiche of idiosyncratic neo-Marxism that advocated the end of capitalism and divided the world into a simple polarity of victims and oppressors. The victims, according to this schema, included four groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx, and Native Americans.
     

    As a refugee from the Soviet Union, she understood the challenge intimately. “The reason I’m doing this—full time and not sleeping” she said, is that “this curriculum is pervasive and all-inclusive. It creates a means of understanding the world that does not allow questioning. And it’s a view that actively invites anti-Zionism into the classroom. It requires it. This is the greatest threat facing American Jews today.”

     


    The California Legislative Jewish caucus published a letter saying the ESMC “effectively erases the American Jewish experience.”

     


    Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of AMCHA Initiative, which fights campus anti-Semitism, points out that all 13 founding members of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) are BDS activists. CESA, the national home base for critical studies, passed a resolution to boycott all Israeli academic institutions in 2014, and the group’s past four biennial meetings included multiple sessions demonizing Israel. “There are a couple thousand academic boycotters of Israel in the country,” she said, “and the largest percentage of them come from ethnic studies. Anti-Zionism is built into the theory and the discipline of ethnic studies, which demonizes Israel as an apartheid settler-colonialist Nazi state.”
     

    But of even greater concern to Jews, she believes, is the singling out of Jewish students as enjoying racial privilege. “I don’t see any way that Jewish students can sit in an ethnic studies class and not feel they have a double target on their backs,” she said, fearing hatred and violence will ensue. First, because they’re Jewish, and considered white and part of the 1%, the purported villains of the teaching, and then through an assumed association with Israel. “There’s a state requirement that you have to sit through a class that says to Jewish students they have extraordinary racial privilege and yet forbids them from speaking because ‘this course is not about you?’ If you don’t accept it, you’re publicly shamed and ostracized—you can’t even speak up and say, ‘I’m not sure if I think that all white people are racists.’”
     

    To placate critics, the third version has added lessons about Korean Americans, Armenian Americans, and Sikhs. Two lessons have been offered about Jews. One, following crude CRT dogma, teaches that Mizrahi Jews coming to the United States from Arab lands were mistreated by “white” Ashkenazim. The other suggests that Jews of European descent have white privilege.
     

    The Jewish Journal points out that Jews are the only group in the curriculum for whom the term “privilege” is used. And this privilege is not earned by way of talent, or educational and professional attainment, but rather trickery. The ESMC, echoing Nazi propaganda about Jews as impostors and appropriators hiding in plain sight, points out that American Jews often change their names (“this practice of name-changing continues to the present day”) to change their rank in the social hierarchy.

     

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/california-ethnic-studies-curriculum

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @nokangaroos

    Public education was sold, to a gullible voting public, by claiming that without it, poor kids would never learn to read.

    By golly, democracy itself depended on voters being able to read the names on the ballot.

    And here we are.

    • Agree: Buffalo Joe
  77. how about naming one after William Wilberforce the white christian leader of the anti-slave movement

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_1807

  78. It is a real tragedy that Ursula died just in time to avoid the cognitive dissonance of having her politics pierce her own Boas-armor.

  79. @notsaying
    The linked CNN article quotes a university official explaining why this was done:

    "In her letter to the university president as to why the decision was being made, Christ stated that some of Kroeber's views and writings "clearly stand in opposition to our university's values of inclusion and our belief in promoting diversity and excellence."

    But the listed sins of Kroeber were connected with how he treated Indian remains and an Indian on campus, things that are utterly unconnected with inclusion, diversity and excellence. Sounds like the university always claims that, whether it is true or not. A faculty member who does seem to know what she is talking about sticks up for Kroeber but they are taking down his name anyhow.

    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    Replies: @kaganovitch, @dearieme, @Buffalo Joe, @ben tillman, @Cato

    No one in history meets all our standards today. We will not meet the standards of our descendants. Do these people not realize this or do they just ignore these facts?

    It’s a bit of an irony: in their eagerness to avoid being ethnocentric, they become chronocentric. But at least the dead aren’t around to complain.

  80. @jon
    @danand

    Just do like New York does and give every school a number. Might as well start the demoralization early.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Richard B

    Just do like New York does and give every school a number.

    Like the Romans used to number their children.

    Now there’s an idea for the high school students of New York, and not just New York.

    • Replies: @Deckin
    @Richard B

    Italians, to this day, have many surnames that are the names of numbers. 'Quaranta'--'40' is a fairly common name and I actually knew a guy named 'Trentadue'--'32'.

  81. @dearieme
    @notsaying

    Christ stated that

    It ain't reported in the Gospels.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    dearieme, hmmm, to a lot of people the name Christ might be offensive. Wait, not might be but is! Change her name. Change her name.

  82. @Neuday
    @Ron Unz

    Considering California's demographics, they should rename the schools for Aztec chiefs. Wouldn't it be fun to hear the few blacks pronouncing names like:

    Acamapichtli
    Huitzilihuitl
    Chimalpopoca
    Itzcóhuatl
    Motecuzoma Ilhuicamina (and not Montezuma, it was the Spaniards who called him like this because they couldn't pronounce it)
    Axayácatl
    Tizoc (this does sound like a Black High School)
    Ahuítzotl
    Motecuzoma Xocoyotl (the one who first met the Spaniards)
    Cuitlahuac

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Getaclue

    Neuday, if this was the Root website instead of iSteve, you would have just provided a new list of unpronounceable names for black mommas. Need a few more hyphens and apostrophes.

  83. @Reg Cæsar
    @Bardon Kaldian


    Until I founded The Lawfare Project, there was not a single entity dedicated to impact litigation on behalf of Jews.
     
    Other than the United States Senate, that is.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    Reg, One sentence Gold Border worthy.

  84. anon[988] • Disclaimer says:
    @nokangaroos
    @Bardon Kaldian

    Sorry to have to break the news, but the only one of the Boas kamarilla still regularly qoted is Margaret Mead - not because anyone agrees with her but she was a hard worker and excellent observer.

    Also, most of the tribes she did are no longer with us :P

    Replies: @anon

    Sorry to have to break the news, but the only one of the Boas kamarilla still regularly qoted is Margaret Mead – not because anyone agrees with her but she was a hard worker and excellent observer. dedicated fabulist and sexual libertine who embraced the Boazian Blank Slate with religious fervor

    FIFY.

    Also, most of the tribes she did are no longer with us

    Yeah, about that.

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201702/margaret-mead-and-the-great-samoan-nurture-hoax

    Mead portrayed the Samoans as “one of the most amiable, least contentious, and most peaceful peoples in the world,” adding that “In Samoa love between the sexes is a light and pleasant dance,” and that male sexuality “is never defined as aggressiveness that must be curbed.” Indeed, she claimed that “the idea of forceful rape or of any sexual act to which both participants do not give themselves freely is completely foreign to the Samoan mind,” remarking that young girls had “as many years of casual love-making as possible.”

    Then in the 1960s, another anthropologist, Derek Freeman, “went to Samoa a ‘fervent believer’ in the ethnography of Coming of Age as well as in the ideology of cultural anthropology.” But what he actually discovered was that, far from Samoans being among the most peaceable people in the world, serious assault in mid-1960s Western Samoa was 67 percent higher than in the USA, 494 percent higher than in Australia, and 847 percent higher than in New Zealand, while common assault was 500 percent that of the USA.

    Whereas Mead claimed that Samoa was permissive about adolescent sex, there was in fact a cult of virginity; where Mead described adultery as “not regarded as very serious” by Samoans, Freeman reports that adultery was punished by death before colonization and by heavy fines afterwards; and that contrary to her portrayal of it, the pattern of adolescent crime was much the same there as anywhere else.

    On the basis of a few dozen interviews with 25 adolescent girls carried out in the back room of a US Navy dispensary—there is no evidence she ever interviewed a boy—and a few touristic excursions around the islands, Mead purported to give an authoritative account of a complete culture, which she described as “a precious permanent possession of mankind… Forever true because no truer picture could be made,” adding portentously, “true to the state of human behavior as it was in the mid 1920s; true to our hopes and fears for the future of the world.”

    tl;dr
    Magaret Mead told certain people what they wanted to hear, and provided stories to support the utterly false and anti-scientific “blank slate” theory. The rest is hysteria.

    • Agree: nokangaroos
  85. @Farenheit
    As a Cal alum, rather than rename Evans Hall, I'd prefer the wrecking ball, and a start from scratch.

    Replies: @Humbert Humbert, @Deckin, @vinteuil, @syonredux

    As a Cal alum, rather than rename Evans Hall, I’d prefer the wrecking ball, and a start from scratch.

    Agreed.

    Me: B.A., Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley, 1987, Magna Cum Laude, Departmental Citation for outstanding graduate…

    In those days, I was at least a little bit proud of the degree that I earned there.

    Not any more. Now, I feel nothing but shame.

    Burn it all down.

  86. @MEH 0910
    @International Jew


    Hubba hubba.
     
    https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61e86ecf81e077b3561daa/1523568988039-FLCJ3ZHCP0COFASMG496/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kKaw-yiWCUT_dIkH-tML1b17gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QHyNOqBUUEtDDsRWrJLTmgbBA9KfxWpJIziZzus6eiKk2902cuAFAxZ2IsJyg1YVeZUliRyJ_WuC65h3JNMsj/Goldstein-correct.jpg
    https://www.thelawfareproject.org/who-we-are

    Replies: @fish

    Probably not worth having to listen to her talk constantly……

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @fish

    https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/e7a50727-42f0-450a-83b5-98be4cc82bf9.0f14e1673490f6158b010d2ba4471cf4.jpeg

  87. @BB753
    Where's the limit? The nation's capital should be renamed too, since Washington and pretty much all the founding fathers owned slaves. How about Martin Luther King City? Obama City?

    Replies: @Old Palo Altan, @Alden

    Their intentions are to tear down every statue and to rename every building.
    I think it very likely that the Jefferson Memorial will be renamed within two years. Then Washington, and finally Lincoln, with all sorts of smaller fry (isn’t there a Reagan building?) in between.

    My Chinese friends tell me they’ve seen it all before. To a man, they marvel at our childlike naiveté.

    • Agree: BB753
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Old Palo Altan


    My Chinese friends tell me they’ve seen it all before. To a man, they marvel at our childlike naiveté.
     
    Please elaborate with specifics from your conversations with them.

    Replies: @Old Palo Altan, @syonredux

  88. @Old Palo Altan
    @BB753

    Their intentions are to tear down every statue and to rename every building.
    I think it very likely that the Jefferson Memorial will be renamed within two years. Then Washington, and finally Lincoln, with all sorts of smaller fry (isn't there a Reagan building?) in between.

    My Chinese friends tell me they've seen it all before. To a man, they marvel at our childlike naiveté.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    My Chinese friends tell me they’ve seen it all before. To a man, they marvel at our childlike naiveté.

    Please elaborate with specifics from your conversations with them.

    • Replies: @Old Palo Altan
    @Anonymous

    Egads! You sound like a GRE question from fifty years ago.

    Neither I nor they need to spell it out: it's Maoism, our very own Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and those whose cultures have been so revolved don't forget easily, and are now recognising its reappearance with astonished disbelief.

    One of my few reasons for hope is that China survived its harrowing. Maybe we will too.

    , @syonredux
    @Anonymous

    https://thejuicyreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/44-disturbing-pictures-of-chinas-cultural-revolution.png

    http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/li-zhensheng.jpg


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

  89. @fish
    @MEH 0910

    Probably not worth having to listen to her talk constantly......

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  90. @Farenheit
    As a Cal alum, rather than rename Evans Hall, I'd prefer the wrecking ball, and a start from scratch.

    Replies: @Humbert Humbert, @Deckin, @vinteuil, @syonredux

    Berkeley grad (BA, English), and I still have fond memories of Wheeler Hall

    Of course, I made a point of taking as many non-Woke courses (Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, etc) as possible…

    • Replies: @Old Palo Altan
    @syonredux

    The same (BA, History with Philosophy minor, 1971).

    It was a great place with great teachers and even some great (or at least earnest) students. Great buildings and ambience too, if one avoided the occasional riot. The history and English departments were actually controlled by mostly Christian cultural conservatives, and the senior professor of Italian history was an unashamed admirer of Mussolini. There was an active if semi-clandestine society of conservatives led by a world famous professor which was ecumenical enough to include monarchists of the European tradition and Galton-admiring eugenicists of the Lathrop Stoddard/Madison Grant stamp (I oscillated between the two, and still do).

    Heady days, but alas they led to nothing, and, even though we did not lack all conviction, it was still the worst, with their passionate intensity, who won out.

    Replies: @Deckin

  91. @Anonymous
    @Old Palo Altan


    My Chinese friends tell me they’ve seen it all before. To a man, they marvel at our childlike naiveté.
     
    Please elaborate with specifics from your conversations with them.

    Replies: @Old Palo Altan, @syonredux

    Egads! You sound like a GRE question from fifty years ago.

    Neither I nor they need to spell it out: it’s Maoism, our very own Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and those whose cultures have been so revolved don’t forget easily, and are now recognising its reappearance with astonished disbelief.

    One of my few reasons for hope is that China survived its harrowing. Maybe we will too.

  92. @Anonymous
    @Old Palo Altan


    My Chinese friends tell me they’ve seen it all before. To a man, they marvel at our childlike naiveté.
     
    Please elaborate with specifics from your conversations with them.

    Replies: @Old Palo Altan, @syonredux

    • Agree: nokangaroos
  93. @syonredux
    @Farenheit

    Berkeley grad (BA, English), and I still have fond memories of Wheeler Hall


    https://i2.wp.com/www.dailycal.org/assets/uploads/2015/06/Wheeler-AW-900x580.jpg


    Of course, I made a point of taking as many non-Woke courses (Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, etc) as possible...

    Replies: @Old Palo Altan

    The same (BA, History with Philosophy minor, 1971).

    It was a great place with great teachers and even some great (or at least earnest) students. Great buildings and ambience too, if one avoided the occasional riot. The history and English departments were actually controlled by mostly Christian cultural conservatives, and the senior professor of Italian history was an unashamed admirer of Mussolini. There was an active if semi-clandestine society of conservatives led by a world famous professor which was ecumenical enough to include monarchists of the European tradition and Galton-admiring eugenicists of the Lathrop Stoddard/Madison Grant stamp (I oscillated between the two, and still do).

    Heady days, but alas they led to nothing, and, even though we did not lack all conviction, it was still the worst, with their passionate intensity, who won out.

    • Replies: @Deckin
    @Old Palo Altan

    If you were a Philosophy minor then surely you also have nice memories of the library in Moses Hall--one of the nicest on campus.

    Replies: @Farenheit, @Old Palo Altan

  94. Will whites who adopt blacks, like that anti-gun priest in Chicago, have their names removed from things someday?

    In July, Todd experienced the hate firsthand. After he shared a photo to Instagram for Chloe’s birthday, one ignorant person left a racist comment on the post: “I’m sorry, I don’t like it. Marry your own color, it really screws up the kids…”

    “I had probably 30, 40, 50 people of color come to me and ask, ‘What does a white man know about raising a Black child?’”

    Julie Chrisley Addresses ‘Unfathomable’ Racist Comments About Her Biracial Granddaughter

    That was mighty generous of Prevention to allow Mr Chrisley to use those two words!

    Grandpa and Grandma are “raising a Black child” because their son lost custody through substance abuse. That should make them honorary blacks.

    • Replies: @Alden
    @Reg Cæsar

    That’s contrary to all the old people ADs on TV. There’s often a mixed race grandchild or two in the AD.

  95. @Richard B
    @jon


    Just do like New York does and give every school a number.
     
    Like the Romans used to number their children.

    Now there's an idea for the high school students of New York, and not just New York.

    Replies: @Deckin

    Italians, to this day, have many surnames that are the names of numbers. ‘Quaranta’–’40’ is a fairly common name and I actually knew a guy named ‘Trentadue’–’32’.

  96. @Old Palo Altan
    @syonredux

    The same (BA, History with Philosophy minor, 1971).

    It was a great place with great teachers and even some great (or at least earnest) students. Great buildings and ambience too, if one avoided the occasional riot. The history and English departments were actually controlled by mostly Christian cultural conservatives, and the senior professor of Italian history was an unashamed admirer of Mussolini. There was an active if semi-clandestine society of conservatives led by a world famous professor which was ecumenical enough to include monarchists of the European tradition and Galton-admiring eugenicists of the Lathrop Stoddard/Madison Grant stamp (I oscillated between the two, and still do).

    Heady days, but alas they led to nothing, and, even though we did not lack all conviction, it was still the worst, with their passionate intensity, who won out.

    Replies: @Deckin

    If you were a Philosophy minor then surely you also have nice memories of the library in Moses Hall–one of the nicest on campus.

    • Replies: @Farenheit
    @Deckin

    Moses Hall, now that was a library. Wood, wood and more wood!!
    I made mention to one of my fellow Cal Alum buddies about my wrecking ball desire for Evans hall, he mentioned Wurster Hall is much worse.

    If you Google Wurster Hall, understand that you can't unsee that. Consider this fair warning!

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @stillCARealist, @Old Palo Altan

    , @Old Palo Altan
    @Deckin

    I do indeed. I tended to go there when I wanted to read just one book for an hour or two.

    When I wanted to browse I went to the main reading room of the Doe Memorial Library - I doubt that I held a book in my hands there for more than about ten minutes before moving on to the next one.

    I could do it for hours.

  97. @syonredux
    Bari Weiss is getting concerned that all this Woke stuff is bad for the Jews:

    Thread: There is no more important story in the Jewish world this month. Read it. You think you know how bad the California ethnic studies curriculum. It's way, way worse. And it affects millions of children:
     

    California's schools are mandating the erasure of Jews and the acceptance of anti-Zionism. I blame every single American Jewish leader who didn't bang on about this every single day. Every single one.
     
    https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1354838956844617732


    California Is Cleansing Jews From History

    But three years later, when the first draft of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) was released, Kaplan couldn’t believe what she was reading. In one sample lesson, she saw that a list of historic U.S. social movements—ones like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Criminal Justice Reform—also included the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement for Palestine (BDS), described as a “global social movement that currently aims to establish freedom for Palestinians living under apartheid conditions.” Kaplan wondered why a foreign movement, whose target was another country, would be mischaracterized as a domestic social movement, and she was shocked that in a curriculum that would be taught to millions of students, BDS’s primary goal—the elimination of Israel—was not mentioned. Kaplan also saw that the 1948 Israel War of Independence was only referred to as the “Nakba”—“catastrophe” in Arabic—and Arabic verses included in the sample lessons were insulting and provocative to Jews.
     

    Capitalism was classified as a form of “power and oppression,” and although “classism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and transphobia” were also listed as forms of oppression, anti-Semitism was not. Jewish Americans were not even mentioned as a minority group.
     

    It didn’t take long for Kaplan to realize that the education offered up by the ESMC had little in common with the program described at the time of the law’s passage. Instead, it was a crude pastiche of idiosyncratic neo-Marxism that advocated the end of capitalism and divided the world into a simple polarity of victims and oppressors. The victims, according to this schema, included four groups: African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinx, and Native Americans.
     

    As a refugee from the Soviet Union, she understood the challenge intimately. “The reason I’m doing this—full time and not sleeping” she said, is that “this curriculum is pervasive and all-inclusive. It creates a means of understanding the world that does not allow questioning. And it’s a view that actively invites anti-Zionism into the classroom. It requires it. This is the greatest threat facing American Jews today.”

     


    The California Legislative Jewish caucus published a letter saying the ESMC “effectively erases the American Jewish experience.”

     


    Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of AMCHA Initiative, which fights campus anti-Semitism, points out that all 13 founding members of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) are BDS activists. CESA, the national home base for critical studies, passed a resolution to boycott all Israeli academic institutions in 2014, and the group’s past four biennial meetings included multiple sessions demonizing Israel. “There are a couple thousand academic boycotters of Israel in the country,” she said, “and the largest percentage of them come from ethnic studies. Anti-Zionism is built into the theory and the discipline of ethnic studies, which demonizes Israel as an apartheid settler-colonialist Nazi state.”
     

    But of even greater concern to Jews, she believes, is the singling out of Jewish students as enjoying racial privilege. “I don’t see any way that Jewish students can sit in an ethnic studies class and not feel they have a double target on their backs,” she said, fearing hatred and violence will ensue. First, because they’re Jewish, and considered white and part of the 1%, the purported villains of the teaching, and then through an assumed association with Israel. “There’s a state requirement that you have to sit through a class that says to Jewish students they have extraordinary racial privilege and yet forbids them from speaking because ‘this course is not about you?’ If you don’t accept it, you’re publicly shamed and ostracized—you can’t even speak up and say, ‘I’m not sure if I think that all white people are racists.’”
     

    To placate critics, the third version has added lessons about Korean Americans, Armenian Americans, and Sikhs. Two lessons have been offered about Jews. One, following crude CRT dogma, teaches that Mizrahi Jews coming to the United States from Arab lands were mistreated by “white” Ashkenazim. The other suggests that Jews of European descent have white privilege.
     

    The Jewish Journal points out that Jews are the only group in the curriculum for whom the term “privilege” is used. And this privilege is not earned by way of talent, or educational and professional attainment, but rather trickery. The ESMC, echoing Nazi propaganda about Jews as impostors and appropriators hiding in plain sight, points out that American Jews often change their names (“this practice of name-changing continues to the present day”) to change their rank in the social hierarchy.

     

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/california-ethnic-studies-curriculum

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education, @nokangaroos

    tl;dr:

    “It is to everybody´s eternal shame it is not illegal to notice Israel is doing openly what they accused the Big Bad Nazis of in the most fevered anti-German tracts.”

    If the chickens come home to roost, make kapores.

  98. @Deckin
    @Old Palo Altan

    If you were a Philosophy minor then surely you also have nice memories of the library in Moses Hall--one of the nicest on campus.

    Replies: @Farenheit, @Old Palo Altan

    Moses Hall, now that was a library. Wood, wood and more wood!!
    I made mention to one of my fellow Cal Alum buddies about my wrecking ball desire for Evans hall, he mentioned Wurster Hall is much worse.

    If you Google Wurster Hall, understand that you can’t unsee that. Consider this fair warning!

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Farenheit

    They look like barracks for the troops of the Ministry of the Interior in charge of putting down coups.

    Replies: @Farenheit

    , @stillCARealist
    @Farenheit

    When I was there in the 80's I just thought, "oh, there's the old pretty buildings, and there's the new ugly buildings."

    The primary motive of the new architects seemed to be that they wanted to separate themselves from the old architects. "Buildings were attractive? Okay, let's make ours gross. Yeah. Now we're different!"

    , @Old Palo Altan
    @Farenheit

    Yes. I walked by it almost daily, as it was on the way back to the frat house.

    I used the library there a few times, architecture of the better kind being one of my interests, but never stayed longer than absolutely necessary. The whole place felt unfinished and always seemed untidy and perhaps about to fall down. Come to think of it, the people in it were somehow "unfinished" too.

  99. @Neuday
    @Ron Unz

    Considering California's demographics, they should rename the schools for Aztec chiefs. Wouldn't it be fun to hear the few blacks pronouncing names like:

    Acamapichtli
    Huitzilihuitl
    Chimalpopoca
    Itzcóhuatl
    Motecuzoma Ilhuicamina (and not Montezuma, it was the Spaniards who called him like this because they couldn't pronounce it)
    Axayácatl
    Tizoc (this does sound like a Black High School)
    Ahuítzotl
    Motecuzoma Xocoyotl (the one who first met the Spaniards)
    Cuitlahuac

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe, @Getaclue

    Appropriate given the amount of human sacrifice (abortion) ongoing….

  100. @Farenheit
    @Deckin

    Moses Hall, now that was a library. Wood, wood and more wood!!
    I made mention to one of my fellow Cal Alum buddies about my wrecking ball desire for Evans hall, he mentioned Wurster Hall is much worse.

    If you Google Wurster Hall, understand that you can't unsee that. Consider this fair warning!

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @stillCARealist, @Old Palo Altan

    They look like barracks for the troops of the Ministry of the Interior in charge of putting down coups.

    • Replies: @Farenheit
    @Steve Sailer

    My joke was Wurster hall was designed to be "Maginot line chic"

  101. @Farenheit
    @Deckin

    Moses Hall, now that was a library. Wood, wood and more wood!!
    I made mention to one of my fellow Cal Alum buddies about my wrecking ball desire for Evans hall, he mentioned Wurster Hall is much worse.

    If you Google Wurster Hall, understand that you can't unsee that. Consider this fair warning!

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @stillCARealist, @Old Palo Altan

    When I was there in the 80’s I just thought, “oh, there’s the old pretty buildings, and there’s the new ugly buildings.”

    The primary motive of the new architects seemed to be that they wanted to separate themselves from the old architects. “Buildings were attractive? Okay, let’s make ours gross. Yeah. Now we’re different!”

  102. I did my version of Ricky Vaughn (not-original to me).

    Republicans vote on Tuesday.

    Democrats vote on Wednesday.

    I didn’t foresee the Dems keeping on voting on Thursday, Friday and ….

    Dumb on my part, but that’s what they do.

  103. @Buffalo Joe
    @notsaying

    notsaying, better read by going to Berkeleyside. And read the comments too. I would have linked the article but I don't know how. Stay safe.

    Replies: @danand

    “I would have linked the article…”

    Buffalo Joe, you’re right, a few on the point comments.

    https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/01/27/uc-berkeleys-kroeber-hall-is-fourth-building-in-1-year-to-be-stripped-of-its-name

    As an ode to righting this particular perceived wrong; the name of one of the aggrieved would do:

    Cheyanne Two Feather Tex – (the person picture Right, or is “they” the one Left?)

    D1E5370C-A4CE-4E90-9225-60FC60AC31D8

    Meet the Kroebers, seem decent?

    E5399BCD-2F47-4048-BD1C-0BA0DB62AA4B

    And their replacement, oh the humanity, or be that humanities?

    weirdos

    An upside from all the desecration is that this regular Joe is unlikely to suffer from idle hands anytime soon:

    worker

    joey

    Joe

    The replacement signage could be brought more inline with the times; change the name every 15 minutes.

    sign

    • Replies: @Alden
    @danand

    Like the digital billboards that can switch between 2 or 3 ADs. I enjoy it when anti White liberal and Marxist great men lose their status, like Steinbeck. There was a Mad magazine comic strip. Bedraggled hippies had signs that had a different slogan on each side.

    Jews now hate their front man tool FDR because he didn’t declare war on Germany March 1933.
    The wheel of fortune turns faster and faster as liberals seek a new cause.

    , @Buffalo Joe
    @danand

    dan, thank you, thank you. And I highly recommend that iStevers visit the article and read the spot on comments. I visit Berkleyside daily, California is a bizarre place, Steve excepted, of course.

    , @syonredux
    @danand

    UC Berkeley removes racist John Boalt’s name from law school


    UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall is no more, its name removed from the law school today (Thursday, Jan. 30), campus officials announced. The denaming — the outcome of a nearly three-year process launched after a Berkeley lecturer discovered the racist writings of John Henry Boalt, a 19th century Oakland attorney — is the first time a Berkeley facility’s name has been eliminated due to its namesake’s character or actions.
     

    John Henry Boalt was instrumental in legitimizing anti-Chinese racism and in catalyzing support for passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 — the nation’s first immigration ban on a specific group of people solely on the basis of race or nationality. Yet, until 2017, his views weren’t well known on campus.
     

    More than a century later, in 2017, attorney and Berkeley law lecturer Charles Reichmann found Boalt’s racist writings at the campus’s Bancroft Library while researching the Asian experience in California. In a book published by the state legislature called Chinese Immigration: Its Social, Moral and Political Effect, he said he found a speech by Boalt “and wondered if this was the Boalt of Boalt Hall. It took me a few minutes to determine that John Boalt was the law school’s namesake.”
     

    “At first,” he said, “I wasn’t sure what to do with what I had found, but after a while, it began to seem disconsonant, unbearable, even, to be among so many students with a Chinese ethnic background, indeed, a great many from China itself, when the man for whom the classroom building is named denied their humanity.
     
    Let's check out Bolat's crimethink:

    In the op-ed and law review article that Reichmann subsequently published, he quoted from Boalt’s 1877 address, “The Chinese Question,” to the Berkeley Club. Boalt’s main argument was that two non-assimilating races have “never yet lived together harmoniously on the same soil, unless one of these races was in a state of servitude to the other.”
     

    The assimilation of races, Boalt said in his speech, was needed for the “internal harmony essential to a nation’s property and perpetuity.” He cited five reasons why races might fail to assimilate: “physical peculiarities,” “intellectual differences and differences of temperament,” “differences in language and customs,” “hatred engendered by conquest or by clashing of national or race interests” and “religious fanaticism.”
     

    He said that races “of comparatively very slight divergence” — he gave the example of the Normans and the Saxons — took centuries of “barbarities, brutalities and suffering” to assimilate. As a result, Boalt, who also made isolated racist remarks about Africans brought to this country as slaves and about Native Americans, speculated in his address whether it would be preferable to exterminate a strongly dissimilar race.
     

    “(i)t would certainly seem that in an extreme case of divergence as between extermination and this kind of reconciliation, the former were the more agreeable alternative,” Boalt said, stressing the need to stop Chinese immigration.

     

    ....Which basically means that Boalt felt that ending mass immigration from China would end the problem......


    https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/30/boalt-hall-denamed/


    UC Berkeley’s LeConte and Barrows halls lose their names


    Let's see about LeConte and Barrows:

    Brothers John and Joseph LeConte came to Berkeley in 1869 from a Southern slave-holding family, fleeing post-civil war Reconstruction; Joseph LeConte, who, like his brother, served in the Confederacy, used scientific language to promote racist ideas.

     

    So, slave-owning Confederate yadda-yadda.....

    Previously, Joseph LeConte had attended Harvard University and studied under biologist and geologist Louis Agassiz, a proponent of polygenism — the view that human races are of different origins and that was used, historically, to advance racial inequality. Although LeConte rejected polygenism, he shared many of Agassiz’s racist beliefs.
     
    Guilt via association....And there are a lotta places named after Agassiz that are gonna need to be un-named....


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz#Legacy

    The LeContes despaired when, after the war, South Carolina College reopened as the University of South Carolina and welcomed Black students and professors for the first time; by 1876, the school had a predominantly Black student body. Joseph LeConte wrote despondently that it had become “a school for illiterate negroes.”
     
    How dare anyone besmirch Black literacy!

    In his 1889 article, “The South Revisited,” and in his 1892 book, The Race Problem in the South, he wrote extensively on the “dread race problem” in society and about the superiority of white people over Black people.
     
    Come on, everyone knows that Haiti is the equal of Denmark...

    In “The South Revisited,” he penned that “race repulsion and race antagonism is … an instinct necessary for the preservation of the purity of the blood of the higher race,” and that when Black people are “largely in excess, so that the control of the superior race is lost, … they are rapidly relapsing into barbarism.”
     
    Detroit....

    LeConte also argued that sexual reproduction in plants and animals explains the perils of racial intermixing: “I regard the light-haired blue-eyed Teutonic and the negro as the extreme types, and their mixture as producing the worst effect. … It seems probable then that the mixture of extreme races produces an inferior result.”
     
    Not believing in hybrid vigor is the ultimate sin....

    Now, what about Barrows....

    Barrows, in addition to serving as UC president, was a faculty member on the Berkeley campus from 1910 to 1942. But “Barrows’ words and actions were anti-Black, anti-Filipinx, anti-Indigenous, xenophobic and Anglocentric” and “advanced the interests of white supremacy,” the Barrows unnaming proposal states.

     


    Barrows, who received an M.A. in political science from the UC in 1895 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1897, was appointed superintendent of schools in Manila in 1900, after the U.S. occupied the Philippines. From 1903 to 1909, he imposed a new educational system on the people of the Philippines as general superintendent of education.
     

    His role as a colonizer, said Joi Barrios-LeBlanc, a lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, “was responsible for the colonial education that privileged English over the Native languages, shaped minds to believe in the superiority of Western culture and reinforced feudal, colonial and pro-imperialist ways of thinking.”

     

    Talk about Hitlerian!

    Barrows, in his book, Berbers and Blacks: Impressions of Morocco, Timbuktu, and The Western Sudan, also analyzed British colonization in Africa, saying that, “The tropical coast comprised in British Nigeria probably had as wicked a history as any part of the African shore, before the British took responsibility for it, and gave it a just and humane government.”

     

    Before the Brits arrived, Nigeria was a veritable paradise, ruled philosopher-kings...

    https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/18/uc-berkeleys-leconte-and-barrows-halls-lose-their-names/
  104. @danand
    “Names to be struck from 44 San Francisco schools, including Lincoln, Revere — and Feinstein”

    ...as in United States Senator Diane Feinstein, former mayor of San Francisco.

    Feinstein, was added to the list for “reportedly” ordering a Confederate flag to be replaced after it had been torn down.

    “Parents and teachers at each school will have until April to propose new names, which must be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. Renaming the schools is expected to cost $440,000.”

    We have until April! Perhaps “Trump High”; not too many characters, already translated into most languages, easy to remember, and most important, to spell.

    Replies: @jon, @Ron Unz, @Hypnotoad666, @Mike Tre, @Alden

    There’s a petition going around to keep the present names. Liberals are insane. They worship Hispanics when they are Métis in prison or failing in school. But when they are Spanish priests and explorers who created California, they are evil Whites.

    For instance sergeant Ortega, the first White man to see San Francisco Bay. In 1769, Padre Crespi, Captain de Portola and Sergeant Ortega set off from Monterey to find the huge bay rumored to be to the north. They walked along what’s now Skyline Highway

    They arrived in what’s now the little town of Pacifica and set up their camp on what’s now the site of Crespi school on Crespi Drive. The next morning Ortega climbed up the mountain and looked north and east for the bay. It was too foggy to see anything.

    Next day he again climbed the mountain and there it was, in all its glory, the greatest harbor on the entire pacific coast from Chile to Canada

    The Spanish founders are much more like local personal and important than Revere, Washington etc. So many of the private schools in the Bay Area are mission schools founded in the 184os.

    One would think that all these Hispanic activists would want to preserve the Spanish heritage. But being stooges of the Jews, they are happy to destroy their own heritage.

    The importance of the Padres and missions is not religion and exploration . It’s farming, the most important industry in California. It will be there centuries after SV entertainment and all other industry moves out.

    Nobody goes to public schools anyway. Last I looked, there were more private high schools than public high schools in San Francisco. Since Mercy SF closed, that might have changed.

    San Francisco has a strict bussing system. Kids cannot attend their local public school including K-5. Every kid goes into a pool of names. They are assigned to schools allegedly randomly. So instead of waking a few blocks with neighborhood friends. They are bussed all over town. And the assignments aren’t random. The savages are sent to the most expensive neighborhoods.

    The strict bussing system is a major reason San Franciscans use the private schools. Why put your child into the pool with the savages and pray they’ll be sent to neighboring Presidio public school when you can enroll them in Star of the Sea catholic , or Kittredge or Laurel secular private, and they can walk home, make neighborhood friends and be safe from the savages? The Asians like the private schools even more than the Whites do.

    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @Alden

    Alden, I believe you are a Californian. Tell our friends here that the misson heritage in Ca. is being stripped away and the Misson bells, that marked the missons, are now relegated to the trash heap. History is worst than racism. Stay safe.

  105. @Reg Cæsar
    Will whites who adopt blacks, like that anti-gun priest in Chicago, have their names removed from things someday?

    In July, Todd experienced the hate firsthand. After he shared a photo to Instagram for Chloe’s birthday, one ignorant person left a racist comment on the post: “I’m sorry, I don’t like it. Marry your own color, it really screws up the kids..."

    "I had probably 30, 40, 50 people of color come to me and ask, ‘What does a white man know about raising a Black child?’"

    Julie Chrisley Addresses ‘Unfathomable’ Racist Comments About Her Biracial Granddaughter
     
    That was mighty generous of Prevention to allow Mr Chrisley to use those two words!

    Grandpa and Grandma are "raising a Black child" because their son lost custody through substance abuse. That should make them honorary blacks.

    Replies: @Alden

    That’s contrary to all the old people ADs on TV. There’s often a mixed race grandchild or two in the AD.

  106. @danand
    @Buffalo Joe

    "I would have linked the article..."

    Buffalo Joe, you're right, a few on the point comments.

    https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/01/27/uc-berkeleys-kroeber-hall-is-fourth-building-in-1-year-to-be-stripped-of-its-name


    As an ode to righting this particular perceived wrong; the name of one of the aggrieved would do:

    Cheyanne Two Feather Tex - (the person picture Right, or is "they" the one Left?)

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwF8Pe


    Meet the Kroebers, seem decent?

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFaMh

    And their replacement, oh the humanity, or be that humanities?

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwBZz6

    An upside from all the desecration is that this regular Joe is unlikely to suffer from idle hands anytime soon:

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFGS3

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwGfJA

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwGfKh


    The replacement signage could be brought more inline with the times; change the name every 15 minutes.

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFUAo

    Replies: @Alden, @Buffalo Joe, @syonredux

    Like the digital billboards that can switch between 2 or 3 ADs. I enjoy it when anti White liberal and Marxist great men lose their status, like Steinbeck. There was a Mad magazine comic strip. Bedraggled hippies had signs that had a different slogan on each side.

    Jews now hate their front man tool FDR because he didn’t declare war on Germany March 1933.
    The wheel of fortune turns faster and faster as liberals seek a new cause.

  107. @BB753
    Where's the limit? The nation's capital should be renamed too, since Washington and pretty much all the founding fathers owned slaves. How about Martin Luther King City? Obama City?

    Replies: @Old Palo Altan, @Alden

    Obama’s ancestors on his communist mother owned side owned slaves . Plus he’s descended on commie mommy’s side from a Pilgrim who arrived Plymouth colony 1623. One of the Pilgrims who massacred Indians stole their land and imported African slaves.

    Bad, bad Obama. I’ve always wondered if he or one of his handlers killed his commie mommy to hide his White half. And if his handlers selected Michelle not for her race but her very dark skin.
    FYI, they met at a Jewish law firm. Ms affirmative action didn’t practice law. She was the diversity recruiter and intern supervisor.

    • Agree: BB753
  108. @Deckin
    @Old Palo Altan

    If you were a Philosophy minor then surely you also have nice memories of the library in Moses Hall--one of the nicest on campus.

    Replies: @Farenheit, @Old Palo Altan

    I do indeed. I tended to go there when I wanted to read just one book for an hour or two.

    When I wanted to browse I went to the main reading room of the Doe Memorial Library – I doubt that I held a book in my hands there for more than about ten minutes before moving on to the next one.

    I could do it for hours.

  109. @Farenheit
    @Deckin

    Moses Hall, now that was a library. Wood, wood and more wood!!
    I made mention to one of my fellow Cal Alum buddies about my wrecking ball desire for Evans hall, he mentioned Wurster Hall is much worse.

    If you Google Wurster Hall, understand that you can't unsee that. Consider this fair warning!

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @stillCARealist, @Old Palo Altan

    Yes. I walked by it almost daily, as it was on the way back to the frat house.

    I used the library there a few times, architecture of the better kind being one of my interests, but never stayed longer than absolutely necessary. The whole place felt unfinished and always seemed untidy and perhaps about to fall down. Come to think of it, the people in it were somehow “unfinished” too.

  110. @danand
    @Buffalo Joe

    "I would have linked the article..."

    Buffalo Joe, you're right, a few on the point comments.

    https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/01/27/uc-berkeleys-kroeber-hall-is-fourth-building-in-1-year-to-be-stripped-of-its-name


    As an ode to righting this particular perceived wrong; the name of one of the aggrieved would do:

    Cheyanne Two Feather Tex - (the person picture Right, or is "they" the one Left?)

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwF8Pe


    Meet the Kroebers, seem decent?

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFaMh

    And their replacement, oh the humanity, or be that humanities?

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwBZz6

    An upside from all the desecration is that this regular Joe is unlikely to suffer from idle hands anytime soon:

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFGS3

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwGfJA

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwGfKh


    The replacement signage could be brought more inline with the times; change the name every 15 minutes.

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFUAo

    Replies: @Alden, @Buffalo Joe, @syonredux

    dan, thank you, thank you. And I highly recommend that iStevers visit the article and read the spot on comments. I visit Berkleyside daily, California is a bizarre place, Steve excepted, of course.

  111. @Alden
    @danand

    There’s a petition going around to keep the present names. Liberals are insane. They worship Hispanics when they are Métis in prison or failing in school. But when they are Spanish priests and explorers who created California, they are evil Whites.

    For instance sergeant Ortega, the first White man to see San Francisco Bay. In 1769, Padre Crespi, Captain de Portola and Sergeant Ortega set off from Monterey to find the huge bay rumored to be to the north. They walked along what’s now Skyline Highway

    They arrived in what’s now the little town of Pacifica and set up their camp on what’s now the site of Crespi school on Crespi Drive. The next morning Ortega climbed up the mountain and looked north and east for the bay. It was too foggy to see anything.

    Next day he again climbed the mountain and there it was, in all its glory, the greatest harbor on the entire pacific coast from Chile to Canada

    The Spanish founders are much more like local personal and important than Revere, Washington etc. So many of the private schools in the Bay Area are mission schools founded in the 184os.

    One would think that all these Hispanic activists would want to preserve the Spanish heritage. But being stooges of the Jews, they are happy to destroy their own heritage.

    The importance of the Padres and missions is not religion and exploration . It’s farming, the most important industry in California. It will be there centuries after SV entertainment and all other industry moves out.

    Nobody goes to public schools anyway. Last I looked, there were more private high schools than public high schools in San Francisco. Since Mercy SF closed, that might have changed.

    San Francisco has a strict bussing system. Kids cannot attend their local public school including K-5. Every kid goes into a pool of names. They are assigned to schools allegedly randomly. So instead of waking a few blocks with neighborhood friends. They are bussed all over town. And the assignments aren’t random. The savages are sent to the most expensive neighborhoods.

    The strict bussing system is a major reason San Franciscans use the private schools. Why put your child into the pool with the savages and pray they’ll be sent to neighboring Presidio public school when you can enroll them in Star of the Sea catholic , or Kittredge or Laurel secular private, and they can walk home, make neighborhood friends and be safe from the savages? The Asians like the private schools even more than the Whites do.

    Replies: @Buffalo Joe

    Alden, I believe you are a Californian. Tell our friends here that the misson heritage in Ca. is being stripped away and the Misson bells, that marked the missons, are now relegated to the trash heap. History is worst than racism. Stay safe.

  112. @danand
    @Buffalo Joe

    "I would have linked the article..."

    Buffalo Joe, you're right, a few on the point comments.

    https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/01/27/uc-berkeleys-kroeber-hall-is-fourth-building-in-1-year-to-be-stripped-of-its-name


    As an ode to righting this particular perceived wrong; the name of one of the aggrieved would do:

    Cheyanne Two Feather Tex - (the person picture Right, or is "they" the one Left?)

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwF8Pe


    Meet the Kroebers, seem decent?

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFaMh

    And their replacement, oh the humanity, or be that humanities?

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwBZz6

    An upside from all the desecration is that this regular Joe is unlikely to suffer from idle hands anytime soon:

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFGS3

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwGfJA

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwGfKh


    The replacement signage could be brought more inline with the times; change the name every 15 minutes.

    https://flic.kr/p/2kwFUAo

    Replies: @Alden, @Buffalo Joe, @syonredux

    UC Berkeley removes racist John Boalt’s name from law school

    UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall is no more, its name removed from the law school today (Thursday, Jan. 30), campus officials announced. The denaming — the outcome of a nearly three-year process launched after a Berkeley lecturer discovered the racist writings of John Henry Boalt, a 19th century Oakland attorney — is the first time a Berkeley facility’s name has been eliminated due to its namesake’s character or actions.

    John Henry Boalt was instrumental in legitimizing anti-Chinese racism and in catalyzing support for passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 — the nation’s first immigration ban on a specific group of people solely on the basis of race or nationality. Yet, until 2017, his views weren’t well known on campus.

    More than a century later, in 2017, attorney and Berkeley law lecturer Charles Reichmann found Boalt’s racist writings at the campus’s Bancroft Library while researching the Asian experience in California. In a book published by the state legislature called Chinese Immigration: Its Social, Moral and Political Effect, he said he found a speech by Boalt “and wondered if this was the Boalt of Boalt Hall. It took me a few minutes to determine that John Boalt was the law school’s namesake.”

    “At first,” he said, “I wasn’t sure what to do with what I had found, but after a while, it began to seem disconsonant, unbearable, even, to be among so many students with a Chinese ethnic background, indeed, a great many from China itself, when the man for whom the classroom building is named denied their humanity.

    Let’s check out Bolat’s crimethink:

    In the op-ed and law review article that Reichmann subsequently published, he quoted from Boalt’s 1877 address, “The Chinese Question,” to the Berkeley Club. Boalt’s main argument was that two non-assimilating races have “never yet lived together harmoniously on the same soil, unless one of these races was in a state of servitude to the other.”

    The assimilation of races, Boalt said in his speech, was needed for the “internal harmony essential to a nation’s property and perpetuity.” He cited five reasons why races might fail to assimilate: “physical peculiarities,” “intellectual differences and differences of temperament,” “differences in language and customs,” “hatred engendered by conquest or by clashing of national or race interests” and “religious fanaticism.”

    He said that races “of comparatively very slight divergence” — he gave the example of the Normans and the Saxons — took centuries of “barbarities, brutalities and suffering” to assimilate. As a result, Boalt, who also made isolated racist remarks about Africans brought to this country as slaves and about Native Americans, speculated in his address whether it would be preferable to exterminate a strongly dissimilar race.

    “(i)t would certainly seem that in an extreme case of divergence as between extermination and this kind of reconciliation, the former were the more agreeable alternative,” Boalt said, stressing the need to stop Chinese immigration.

    ….Which basically means that Boalt felt that ending mass immigration from China would end the problem……

    https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/30/boalt-hall-denamed/

    UC Berkeley’s LeConte and Barrows halls lose their names

    Let’s see about LeConte and Barrows:

    Brothers John and Joseph LeConte came to Berkeley in 1869 from a Southern slave-holding family, fleeing post-civil war Reconstruction; Joseph LeConte, who, like his brother, served in the Confederacy, used scientific language to promote racist ideas.

    So, slave-owning Confederate yadda-yadda…..

    Previously, Joseph LeConte had attended Harvard University and studied under biologist and geologist Louis Agassiz, a proponent of polygenism — the view that human races are of different origins and that was used, historically, to advance racial inequality. Although LeConte rejected polygenism, he shared many of Agassiz’s racist beliefs.

    Guilt via association….And there are a lotta places named after Agassiz that are gonna need to be un-named….

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz#Legacy

    The LeContes despaired when, after the war, South Carolina College reopened as the University of South Carolina and welcomed Black students and professors for the first time; by 1876, the school had a predominantly Black student body. Joseph LeConte wrote despondently that it had become “a school for illiterate negroes.”

    How dare anyone besmirch Black literacy!

    In his 1889 article, “The South Revisited,” and in his 1892 book, The Race Problem in the South, he wrote extensively on the “dread race problem” in society and about the superiority of white people over Black people.

    Come on, everyone knows that Haiti is the equal of Denmark…

    In “The South Revisited,” he penned that “race repulsion and race antagonism is … an instinct necessary for the preservation of the purity of the blood of the higher race,” and that when Black people are “largely in excess, so that the control of the superior race is lost, … they are rapidly relapsing into barbarism.”

    Detroit….

    LeConte also argued that sexual reproduction in plants and animals explains the perils of racial intermixing: “I regard the light-haired blue-eyed Teutonic and the negro as the extreme types, and their mixture as producing the worst effect. … It seems probable then that the mixture of extreme races produces an inferior result.”

    Not believing in hybrid vigor is the ultimate sin….

    Now, what about Barrows….

    Barrows, in addition to serving as UC president, was a faculty member on the Berkeley campus from 1910 to 1942. But “Barrows’ words and actions were anti-Black, anti-Filipinx, anti-Indigenous, xenophobic and Anglocentric” and “advanced the interests of white supremacy,” the Barrows unnaming proposal states.

    Barrows, who received an M.A. in political science from the UC in 1895 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1897, was appointed superintendent of schools in Manila in 1900, after the U.S. occupied the Philippines. From 1903 to 1909, he imposed a new educational system on the people of the Philippines as general superintendent of education.

    His role as a colonizer, said Joi Barrios-LeBlanc, a lecturer in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, “was responsible for the colonial education that privileged English over the Native languages, shaped minds to believe in the superiority of Western culture and reinforced feudal, colonial and pro-imperialist ways of thinking.”

    Talk about Hitlerian!

    Barrows, in his book, Berbers and Blacks: Impressions of Morocco, Timbuktu, and The Western Sudan, also analyzed British colonization in Africa, saying that, “The tropical coast comprised in British Nigeria probably had as wicked a history as any part of the African shore, before the British took responsibility for it, and gave it a just and humane government.”

    Before the Brits arrived, Nigeria was a veritable paradise, ruled philosopher-kings…

    https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/18/uc-berkeleys-leconte-and-barrows-halls-lose-their-names/

  113. @Steve Sailer
    @Farenheit

    They look like barracks for the troops of the Ministry of the Interior in charge of putting down coups.

    Replies: @Farenheit

    My joke was Wurster hall was designed to be “Maginot line chic”

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