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Originally Posted by Superbelt
We aren't making it an issue. It is an issue because Vanderbilt isn't able to draw a diverse student body because, surprise surprise, black kids don't want to live in Confederate Hall.
So Vanderbilt decides it's about time to change the name so they can both not seriously offend these kids and actually become an attractive place for them to go to school.
So they change the name and it's the whacko Confederacy clingers who make a court case out of it.
So I ask again, why do they care about the confederacy so much? Why do they cling to that name? They aren't the confederacy, they are the South, specifically whatever state they are from. The Confederacy was a group of fuckwads who wanted to keep whipping human beings because they weren't picking cotton fast enough.
(Civil War = War for states rights = war for a states right to decide if it's residents can own humans with a high melanin count)
Confederacy was evil, let it go. Same thing with the Stars and Bars. As a product of the Civil War, it deserves to only be flown in a museum, not a statehouse.
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I think most black people actually don't care. I'm asian I don't care. I really think the only people who make a fuss of this are ones craving attention.
I'm not letting the past go because it doesn't offend me. If the school wants to change the building name, they can if they want, but I think it's a rather silly move.
Superbelt you seem a very decent fellow, but after your "Indian" comment and how you expressed how black people would feel offended by the word confederate here, I have to ask you. Why do you care if others are offended? Let them choose to be. Be civil no doubt, but no need to say "Oh be careful you may offend people unless you choose this moralistically better way of addressing them". Ironically though I've come to realize you only really offend people if you try assume what offends them...which seeminly I'm doing with you. So I'm sorry in advance, and once again I think idealistically you have a good heart.