Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them. Really!

This is dangerous modern, 21st century inquisition all over again! Disgusting! This is pure fanaticism!

History may not repeat itself, but ignorant, dangerous fools and useful idiots sure know how to rhyme!

This piece of junk journalism was written by three apparently white professors (two Americans)!

Caveat: I did not read the whole article.

The article starts with:

"The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers, and the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years later compelled Americans to confront the role played by memorials, monuments and other symbols in glorifying racist ideologies.

George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020 only lent urgency to that challenge. ..."

The article goes on:

"... Some names perpetuate demeaning slurs and stereotypes against people of color. Others honor historical figures linked to racism and colonization. This movement is what we geographers call America’s “renaming moment.” ..."

Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them

About the Spanish Inquisition

Recommendable!

JAMA editor to depart following podcast that questioned racism in medicine

There is nothing to celebrate here! This is medieval inquisition all over again in the 21st century! Indoctrination and orthodoxy reign! Awful!

JAMA editor to depart following podcast that questioned racism in medicine Following a huge backlash that flared after the Journal of the American Medical Association aired a podcast and posted a tweet questioning whether structural racism exists in medicine, the American Medical Association announced Tuesday that the journal’s editor-in-chief, Howard Bauchner, will be stepping down at the end of June.

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.