{"id":17724,"date":"2021-03-11T02:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17724"},"modified":"2021-03-11T02:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T09:22:37","slug":"quick-takes-the-academic-purging-of-whites-purging-racist-colonials-with-non-racist-whales-racist-emancipators-of-slave-racist-conquerors-of-germans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/03\/11\/quick-takes-the-academic-purging-of-whites-purging-racist-colonials-with-non-racist-whales-racist-emancipators-of-slave-racist-conquerors-of-germans\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 The Academic Purging Of Whites: Purging Racist Colonials With Non-Racist Whales; Racist Emancipators of Slave; Racist Conquerors Of Germans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Leukophobia!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fhn_-rjz_R4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Colonials are considered evil White oppressors, while <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=15283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whales are known for being hippies of the sea<\/a> or something\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWestern Connecticut State University is considering changing its \u2018Colonials\u2019 mascot to a new moniker that \u2018better reflects WCSU.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA petition has accumulated more than 300 signatures advocating for the removal of the current mascot and replacing it with a new one. According to the petition, the signatories \u2018want to leave the outdated term, Colonials, behind as it is representative of ethnic violence, genocide, racism, and white male privilege.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cInstead of being the Colonials, the petition asks that the university switch its name to the \u2018Whales.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Whales are associated with compassion and solitude, and knowledge of both life and death,\u2019 reasons the petition. \u2018They are also associated with unbridled creativity. The exhalation through the blowhole symbolizes the freeing of one&#8217;s own creative energies. Sound is also a creative force of life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captain Ahab hardest hit\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nothing says \u201coppression\u201d more than leading a war against slave owners and <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/ed-morrissey\/2021\/01\/27\/san-francisco-school-board-no-honoring-people-offensive-histories-like-abraham-lincoln-paul-revere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">liberating from the shackles of slavery millions of people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt sounds trite to say that some news item sounds like it came from a satirical publication, but how else does one explain jettisoning Abraham Lincoln for lack of wokeness? Two words: \u2018San Francisco.\u2019 The city\u2019s school board ordered the removal of names from schools that honored historical figures with \u2018offensive histories,\u2019 which includes the Great Emancipator who ended slavery in the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNo, really\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Apparently the racism of \u201cWhiteness\u201d is best destroyed by pulling down statues of people who\u2026 fought, conquered, and \u201cprivilege checked\u201d the whitest of Whites: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/brown-university-students-want-roman-statues-removed-because-they-promote-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic and Germanic tribes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCaesar Augustus represents \u2018icon of colonial and imperial domination\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA Brown University student group, Decolonization at Brown, wants the school to remove two Roman statues displayed on campus, claiming the statues represent white supremacy and colonialism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe student group at the Ivy League university in Rhode Island has lobbied the school\u2019s Undergraduate Council of Students to support its initiative to remove of statues of Roman Emperors Caesar Augustus and Marcus Aurelius.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cRemoving the statues \u2018is one step in a broader project of decolonization by confronting Brown\u2019s institutional and ideological legacies of colonialism and white supremacy,\u2019 members of the group wrote in The Blognonian, a student publication at the university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Academic Purging Of Whites: Purging Racist Colonials With Non-Racist Whales; Racist Emancipators of Slave; Racist Conquerors of Celts\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Leukophobia!\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Leukophobia! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Colonials are considered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/03\/11\/quick-takes-the-academic-purging-of-whites-purging-racist-colonials-with-non-racist-whales-racist-emancipators-of-slave-racist-conquerors-of-germans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[9,70,25,48],"class_list":["post-17724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-europe","tag-facepalm","tag-higher-ed","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17725,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724\/revisions\/17725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}