Princeton and Woodrow Wilson

Rana said:
I am hardly forcing my beliefs on the rest of the country Vanilla, but I do have a right to my opinions. I lost a great deal of respect for Wilson when I read about eugenics and that is my right.
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The feminist heroine and author of the Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir used to procure under age girls for Jean Paul Sartre to have sex with, they also signed a petition to the French parliament in 1977. Should she be removed from gender studies courses?

A petition was addressed to the French parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age of consent law and the decriminalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen (the age of consent in France). A number of French intellectuals, including prominent names, signed the petition. In 1979 two open letters were published in French newspapers defending the release of individuals arrested under charges of statutory rape, in the context of abolition of age of consent laws.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of_consent_laws
 
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Sheogorath said:
She renounced her faith in her private journals. Also I'm sure that 100 years from now we'll have a different view of her.
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did her private journals reveal anything liberals would believe were bad? because I think they would believe renouncing ones faith in a superstitious being would be a plus in their book.
 
cawacko said:
Haha, gotcha. Does it have anything about Steph Curry there??? :)
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no, he didn't start playing there till a few years after I moved back to Cowtown. Davidsons auditorium was literally a block behind my back yard. I taught the misses how to drive in their parking lot. Davidson was a nice place to live. Very comparable to Dublin in terms of quality of life, it doesn't have the kind of money that Dublin has but it's not far off.
 
Well 3D thinks Wilson was a horrible President and that tells you right there that he did a lot of things right.

I mean my analogy to Lincoln was spot on. Lincoln believed that people of color were inherently inferior to whites. He did not believe that free blacks should have equal rights with whites and he proactively wanted to deport free blacks back to Africa. The events of the Civil War changed many of Lincolns views but even then by our standards of today he would be considered racist. By the standards of his day he was considered a radical liberal on the issue of race.

One has to be careful when one views the past that you don't creat anachronisms. This where I disagree with these protesters.
 
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We'd have to eliminate every culture and all history in order to not honor people for their accomplishments. It would be incredibly foolish.
 
Damocles said:
We'd have to eliminate every culture and all history in order to not honor people for their accomplishments. It would be incredibly foolish.
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I just like taking advantage of the fact that people take offense to the likes of Jackson and Wilson so that I can get them removed from positions of prominence and recognition. :D
 
Damocles said:
We'd have to eliminate every culture and all history in order to not honor people for their accomplishments. It would be incredibly foolish.
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It is also foolish to forget that which they are guilty. People have a tendency to do that, too.
 
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