Princeton Drops Woodrow Wilson’s Name From Public Policy School

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on Saturday it would remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public school because of his “racist thinking and policies”—the latest institution to ditch names or images of historical figures in the wake of protests against racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd.... [+]

at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. Princeton University announced Monday, April 4, 2016, that Woodrow Wilson's name will remain on Princeton University's public policy school, despite calls to remove it because the former U.S. president was a segregationist.Princeton will rename the School of Public and International Affairs and the Wilson College because Wilson, whoas the university’s president from 1902-1910, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber said.

Eisgruber noted that Wilson segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, and his views were racist “even by the standards of his own time.” Eisgruber said Princeton named the school after Wilson “without regard to or perhaps even in ignorance of, his racism,” and drew a distinction between him and other figures, such as John C. Calhoun or Robert E. Lee, whose “fame derives from their defenses of the Confederacy and slavery.”to remove Wilson’s name from the building in 2015 despite student protests about the issue, saying at the time “the use of his name implies no endorsement of views and actions.

 

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'Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.' - 1984, George Orwell

Long overdue. Shameful Princeton has been defending the name and statue up tot his point.

Just ERASING anything seen as racist, isnt going to change a damn thing! Covering your eyes is not playing hide and seek

Reagan had the Russians as the butt of his jokes. This issue must also be addressed given that extra-pale slavic minorities may find his figure and memory offensive.

America takes the red pill 💊

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