Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by Haven_Monahan on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:06PM
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I mean that a school that started for the express purpose of training Puritan Congregationalist ministers, and had mandatory Protestant chapel until 1926, now has coed dormitories, an LGBT club, and Atheists at the Divinity College.
Even for someone not particularly religious for the time(Calhoun eventually became a Unitarian), all that would be a little difficult for him to get his head around.
I mean, it could be worse. I imagine sometimes how Increase Mather would react to Harvard today, and I kinda understand where fundamentalist terrorists get their outrage from.
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by howeman on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:48PM
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Though, congregationalists are one of the most pro LGTB churches and have been for a long time
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by literallycancer on Saturday February 11, 2017 @09:53PM
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Atheists, the horror!
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by fludlight on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:02PM
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That one of the most outspoken defenders of slavery would not approve of a 21st century American university that, among other things, admits black students and employs black faculty.
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by Jill_the_Pill on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:18PM
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> "admits black students and employs black faculty"
Although rather few of either.
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by jonwachob91 on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:53PM
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Probably referencing the students that act like spoiled children b/c not everyone has the same opinions as them...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new...
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by Avshalom on Saturday February 11, 2017 @11:22PM
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>Her message was a model of relevant, thoughtful, civil engagement.
Actually her message was a model of pretending that we haven't been having the black face conversation every single god damned year for over a hundred years while flogging her book.
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by jtedward on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:07PM
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Well it's more effective then griping on the internet. The spoiled child approach has done wonders for Trump and the Republicans.
Re:Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor Grace Hopper
by toehead2000 on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:30PM
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This can be interpreted two, opposing ways. Very clever
What do you mean by this?