I agree with you, to a point.

Solid gold? I’m fairly sure that what that skin tautly envelops is, in fact, a human-shaped agglomeration of horseshit.

The founding myth of America is harmful

Fuck’em. Franklin was GREAT. We can’t act like everyone who ever did anything problematic when it was legal to do so, is beyond consideration as a role model. Fuck that shit.

I hope Pauli Murray is a vegetarian because in 100 years or so her name might be stripped off of this building. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seems like he had $250 million reasons.

I know it’s not a particularly “internet” response, but my reaction is that this is all fine and unworthy of outrage. Sure, changing the title “Master” is kind of a dumb capitulation to historical ignorance, but if it makes some people happy it’s not a hill worth dying on ... same thing should be true about Franklin.

Yea, I mean it’s Yale. And $250 million. He named the building. Quelle surprise.

Nothing short of the complete annhialation of the white race will suffice. Justice will only be served once we have eradicated every member of any race that has ever subjugated or harmed another race (including their own) at any point throughout history.

The moves all seem like attempts to progress without completely breaking the school’s traditions.

Maybe one day society will mature to the point where we can look at the positive and the negative of individuals without having to throw out the entirety of a person’s legacy for one failure on their record. People are flawed. There are no heros. If you dig deep enough into ANYONE, you can find grounds to reject them.

College is a club for rich kids. The college wing of my family doesn’t talk to the farmers.

His pro column is still vastly larger than his con.

Yeah, not surprised they let the guy who paid for the buildings name one of them.

So is the solution to erase dead white men from history?

....students are upset that one of those names is Benjamin Franklin.

Don’t be fucking coy. When you say “Becky” you mean “white bitch”. You know it, we know it. I don’t care, but don’t think people are too fucking stupid to know what you mean. You clearly aren’t using it as an affectionate nickname. It means white cunt.

Iggy is an idiot, but is it really surprising that people don’t like the deliberate slur you’ve come up with to show your contempt for them?

Becky is ok to call white women because it is a Jezebel truth that black women can’t be racist.