Monthly Archives: June 2020

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Here we have ‘The Father of History’ Herodotus relating to us his understanding of the story of the pyramids at Giza, specifically those of Cheops (the Greek version of Khufu) and his son Chephron (Khafra).

The university is named after a slave-trader. Seize its endowment.

Last Saturday, amid viral videos of public monuments being defaced all throughout the country, #CancelYale started trending on Twitter—but it wasn’t Antifa’s doing. It was an elaborate troll by conservative commentator Jesse Kelly. “Yale University was named for Elihu Yale. Not just a man who had slaves. An actual slave trader. I call on @Yale to change it’s name immediately and strip the name of Yale from every building, piece of paper, and merchandise. Otherwise, they hate black people. #CancelYale,” Kelly tweeted.

He didn’t stop at Yale. Kelly’s “campaign” to topple monuments to slavery and indigenous genocide called out Harvard, Brown, the University of Virginia—every single one of these institutions have hoarded wealth, resources, and expertise on behalf of America’s elites. “I am calling on both parties in Congress to pass the Strip University Credentials Act for every American university like Yale, Georgetown, and Brown who are founded by slave owners. I’m calling it the SUC Act,” he tweeted. “End university racism and these monuments to slavery.”

Not all conservatives could get behind the troll, however—some hesitated. Cathy Young, a contributor to Reason, pushed back: “The left’s ‘cancel culture’ is vile. The right’s ‘hey, let’s turn cancel culture around to clobber the left’ game is ten times as nauseating because it’s so flagrantly cynical,” she tweeted.

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The proponents of the bill, the most radical progressives in California (which is really saying something), say it’s about removing the ban on affirmative action, first passed in 1996. 

This week, the legislature in California voted to remove the constitutional prohibition on “discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting.” That’s right, California just voted to allow racial and gender discrimination in all its public activities. The bill will move to the ballot in November for a popular vote.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The California legislature has now voted to strike these words from our state<br>constitution:<br><br>“The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.”<br><br>I’m speechless. <a href="https://t.co/X09mWlM9sX">pic.twitter.com/X09mWlM9sX</a></p>— Steve Miller (@SteveMillerOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/1275892961360805888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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