Why?
Princeton students have just demanded that Woodrow Wilson School is renamed, citing his racist legacy https://t.co/Yy3E13ofS8
— joshi herrmann (@joshi) November 18, 2015
Because Woodrow Wilson was a malignantly racist, would-be totalitarian, that’s why. We got lucky when that man had his stroke; he might have done even more damage to the Republic if he was healthier. As it is Wilson is still easily the worst President since James Buchanan, let alone the single worst President of the Twentieth Century. I don’t mind at all seeing his name get dragged through the mud. Not. At. All.
Mind you, the other two demands that these people had were both inane.
Y’know, one out of three isn’t *bad* for that age cohort…
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so what new name would be pure enough for these bozos? Nat Turner?
How about the “Battle of Leyte Gulf School of International Affairs” because you cannot get enough reality applied to an Ivy League student’s skull early enough or fast enough – or hard enough.*
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And USS Princeton was sunk there, so there is some connection.
And this is one thing that I hold against TR. Taft was a perfectly good man (and a later fine Chief Justice) and Wilson was such a donkey.
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What would have shown up in 1916 is anyone’s guess, but no Wilson and his inane Umpteen Points and League of Nations would have been worth that.
As Clemenceau was reputed to have said when he heard of the Fourteen Points, “Quatorze? Le Bon Dieu n’a que dix.”