‘Racist’ Rock Removed From College Campus After Black Student Union, Activists Complain

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What makes the rock allegedly racist? In the 1920s, a journalist once used a racist term to describe the large boulder.

 

The rock’s existence has apparently been oppressing students ever since.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/racist-rock-removed-from-college-campus-after-black-student-union-activists-complain

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this rock has been around for millions of years, but now it is cancelled for being racist.............

[Dashinka 24,492]

Well, we are seeing segregated classrooms, "blacks only" safe spaces, etc. seems like real progress.

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Rocks have a long history of violence and racism. In the first book of the bible a rock commits murder. Ban rocks. 

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We need more like John McWhorter.

 

Opinion | Performative Antiracism At The University Of Wisconsin

 

The idea, it would seem, is that there is no difference between the past and the present, that what some writer said one day during the Coolidge administration would be hurtful to a student walking past the rock while texting last month, that this rock is representative of racism in the same way that a Confederate statue is representative of Southern racism.

 

So apparently the passage of time is an illusion? That’s sophisticated indeed as a literary conceit, but what’s deep in Faulkner becomes mere performance when it’s wielded to have a rock lifted away because of what one person called it almost a century ago.

 

And a crude performance at that. The students essentially demanded that an irrational, prescientific kind of fear — that a person can be meaningfully injured by the dead — be accepted as insight. They imply that the rock’s denotation of racism is akin to a Confederate statue’s denotation of the same, neglecting the glaringly obvious matter of degree here — as in, imagine pulling down a statue upon finding that the person memorialized had uttered a single racist thing once in his or her life.

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Let us remember: The point here is treating a rock as psychologically damaging because of something someone dug up written about it at a time when people lived without antibiotics, television or McDonald’s. And yes, people often called big rocks and other things that ugly name in those days. But by that logic, we should be lifting away thousands of rocks nationwide. Note the perfect absurdity of an idea that America is “coming to terms” with racism by having cranes laboring all over the country moving boulders to different spots. Then I assume we must also refrain from consuming what many consider the most luscious of nuts, the Brazil — because they have been described with a similar word as the rock. Let us raze stands of Brazil nuts worldwide as a gesture of antiracism? Nay, I shall continue to savor their exquisiteness and shall wince not.

 

https://upcomingworldnews.com/analysis-comment/opinion-performative-antiracism-at-the-university-of-wisconsin/

Edited August 30, 2021 by Dashinka

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3 hours ago, Dashinka said:

we should be lifting away thousands of rocks nationwide.

Those being removed are ending up firmly in people's heads.