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Washington Post Inadvertently Admits to Promoting Racial Terror
« on: July 10, 2020, 12:44:56 am »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/04/both-namesakes-washington-lee-university-perpetrated-racial-terror-school-should-be-renamed/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

This really doesn't deserve its own thread, yet somehow it does.

September 2020: Chappelle Show sketches featuring Leonard Washington removed over "insensitive naming" of protagonist.
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Re: Washington Post Inadvertently Admits to Promoting Racial Terror
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2020, 03:29:16 am »
Paywall.

Can you give us a précis?
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Re: Washington Post Inadvertently Admits to Promoting Racial Terror
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2020, 04:03:28 am »
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Re: Washington Post Inadvertently Admits to Promoting Racial Terror
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2020, 07:14:35 am »
Quote from: JNM on July 10, 2020, 03:29:16 am
Paywall.

Can you give us a précis?
Washington Post article calls for renaming Washington and Lee University because both names promote racial terror.
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Re: Washington Post Inadvertently Admits to Promoting Racial Terror
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2020, 08:42:45 am »
Funny. There was a rumour going round that one of the founders of the Guardian made money from the slave trade. I'd love that to be the case.
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Re: Washington Post Inadvertently Admits to Promoting Racial Terror
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2020, 08:04:09 pm »
It's an opinion piece by Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law.

One thing martini was right about--it doesn't deserve its own thread.
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Re: Washington Post Inadvertently Admits to Promoting Racial Terror
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2020, 09:33:14 pm »
Quote from: Mr.DeMartino on July 10, 2020, 07:14:35 am
Washington Post article calls for renaming Washington and Lee University because both names promote racial terror.

[slaps forehead]
Thanks for helping out.
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