Yale Has to Go!

Commentary from Ann Coulter on Town Hall.com (June 17):

I'll let others berate Republicans for doing nothing about the rioting, the arsons, the beatings, the corporate and social media canceling. This column will address the GOP's moronitude in response to attacks on the destruction of Confederate monuments. Works of art are being destroyed by Maoist vandals who have no idea what they're doing.

Literally no idea.

Quick! Who was Fort Bragg named after? What did he do? Do you even know his first name? When you have to Google the guy on a statue to figure out who he is, maybe it's not really the daily humiliation you claim it is.

At this point, the military bases are famous in their own right. No one hears "Fort Hood" and thinks of Gen. John Bell Hood. Fort Bragg, home of the 82nd Airborne, is many orders of magnitude more famous than Gen. Braxton Bragg. It would be like demanding President John F. Kennedy change his name because his namesake, John Fitzgerald, was a corrupt Boston mayor.

Most obviously, the Democratic Party is going to have to change its name. You want an institution that represents slavery? Confederate politicians were all Democrats, Democrats created Jim Crow, and the founder of the party was a slave holder. (The Republican Party was founded to end slavery.)

Speaking of repellant Democrats, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said on the Senate floor this week that the United States "didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it."

This is the most ignorant statement ever made on the Senate floor. (And that's saying something!)

Every society has had slavery; it existed long before America did, including by American Indians (though they preferred torturing their captives to death, inasmuch as few of the natives farmed or built things). From 1530 to 1780, at least a million Europeans were kidnapped by African Muslims and forced into slavery. The vast majority were starved or beaten to death.

In fact, unless we're counting the Democrats' wearing kente cloth last week, slavery is the only African institution ever adopted by this country. Portuguese -- not Americans -- brought the first slaves to Jamestown in 1619 (The New York Times' favorite episode of American history!). We, are, however, the only country that fought a war to end slavery.

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How about a bill withholding all federal funds from Yale University until it changes its name? The school's namesake, Elihu Yale, was not only a slave owner, but a slave trader.

Quite a dilemma for the little snots who attend and teach there! It will be tremendously damaging to their brand. After all, true sublimity for a Social Justice Warrior is virtue signaling and advertising their high SAT scores at the same time.

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Federal funds will never be withheld from Yale University. That’s where the Ruling Class go to learn. Especially the Left. Let George Soros and other members of the elite Left support the university. Also, should universities do away with master degrees? Or maybe call them something else because after all they do sound racist don’t they? Something to think about if you’re a crazy Leftist.