Universities scrub names of racist leaders — students say it’s a first step

This is a long news article by Springer Nature journal fawning and gushing over the modern witch hunt! It is incredible! What an Orwellian world where war is peace ... Where will this dangerous medieval inquisition end! Is there no adult in the room telling these fanatics to take a hike!



"n June, the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles removed a former president’s name from a central campus"



"In the same month, the University of Mons in Belgium removed a bust of Leopold II, the Belgian king"



"And in July, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York removed DNA scientist James Watson’s name from its biological-sciences graduate programme, citing his past racist comments."



"In February, University College London (UCL) committed to dropping the names of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, ..."

I blogged here about Karl Pearson, the socialist!



"The university also removed Von KleinSmid’s name, portrait and biography from an online gallery of past presidents"



"In February, a student organization at Stanford University in California delivered a formal request asking the institution’s leaders to rename Jordan Hall, which houses its psychology department. The building is named after Stanford’s founding president, David Starr Jordan, a marine biologist and famous eugenicist."





Universities scrub names of racist leaders — students say it’s a first step Activists praise the actions, but now seek deeper cultural change.