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Racist Rock Cancelled


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2020 Nov 20, 3:20pm   587 views  11 comments

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https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/symbol-of-ongoing-harm-uw-committee-votes-in-favor-of-removing-chamberlin-rock/article_9ba59c4c-bc06-5a14-a084-2b04ab1941c5.html

'Symbol of ongoing harm': UW committee votes in favor of removing Chamberlin Rock

Pending approval from Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the University of Wisconsin-Madison may remove Chamberlin Rock from its current location, a response to demands from students who have highlighted the rock’s racist history.

The rock, which may be over 2 billion years old, is located within an archeological site on Observatory Hill near two Native effigy mounds. It was named in 1926 after geologist and UW President Thomas Chamberlin, honored with a plaque on the rock, but for years carried a racist nickname including the N-word.

The Campus Planning Committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend the removal of Chamberlin Rock to the chancellor. Student representatives from the Wisconsin Black Student Union and Wunk Sheek, the Native student organization, voiced their support for its removal to committee members.

“It’s a constant reminder of the injustices we face, not only on this campus, but in society as a whole,” said WBSU president Nalah McWhorter at the meeting. “This is just another example and another symbol that we don’t belong here.”

In July, student activists met with Blank and other administrators with a list of demands, which also included further meetings with student groups and removal of the Abraham Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill.

WBSU has yet to release a stance on its preferred next steps for the rock, but options include relocating the rock off campus, burying the boulder at its original location east of its current site or breaking up and disposing of the rock. Costs will range from about $30,000 to $75,000

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1   Booger   2020 Nov 20, 3:22pm  

Rocks are now racist too?
2   Ceffer   2020 Nov 20, 3:22pm  

I think it only justice that the rock be replaced by a statue of a printing press spitting out a diploma with a gold star.
3   Ceffer   2020 Nov 20, 3:23pm  

I am waiting for Dwayne Johnson's input with bated breath. "Well, I liked the rock part, anyway."
4   Bd6r   2020 Nov 20, 3:30pm  

Booger says
Rocks are now racist too?

Yes, this means racism on Earth has existed for at least 2 billion years, which is the age of this rock.
I hope our progressive Patnetters enjoy this type of crap, under Biden it will be increased exponentially.
5   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Nov 20, 3:50pm  

Dbr6 says
Costs will range from about $30,000 to $75,000
The cost of virtue signaling, I suppose.
6   Eric Holder   2020 Nov 20, 4:27pm  

#idiocracy
7   Karloff   2020 Nov 20, 4:42pm  

Ah yes, all the "injustices" you face while attending a (once) prestigious university in one of the most free countries in the world.

These ungrateful commie sacks of crap need a real education. They need a one year stay in a real totalitarian third world hellhole where they are starved near-to-death, beaten, worked to the bone, watching fellow prisoners lined up and shot for the crime of stealing a bit of extra food. Donned only in rags and rotted sandals, having a toe or two freeze off during the cold winter months, they would soon realize how good things were in the country they once foolishly referred to as "fascist".

If those who went to war to fight for the freedoms of future generations saw the despicable attitudes displayed by people like this, they likely would have dropped their rifles and went home instead.
10   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2020 Nov 20, 5:32pm  

Left is back to cancelling and removing everything that offends again. Crazy people.

Literally not surprised.
11   Misc   2020 Nov 20, 9:24pm  

SunnyvaleCA says
Dbr6 says
Costs will range from about $30,000 to $75,000
The cost of virtue signaling, I suppose.


They could always move the rock to a correctional facility, where they could go back to the time honored system of making big rocks in to little rocks again.

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