The boulder was referred to as a derogatory name for Black people in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 1925.
“This moment is about the students, past and present, that relentlessly advocated for the removal of this racist monument,” she said. “Now is a moment for all of us BIPOC students to breathe a sigh of relief, to be proud of our endurance, and to begin healing.” It cost an estimated $50,000 to remove.
Kenneth Owens, a Madison resident, said he was glad to see the rock go,
“It’s not the rock’s fault that it got that terrible and unfortunate nickname,” he said. “But the fact that it’s ... being moved shows that the world is getting a little better today.”
It's getting nearly impossible to write satire anymore. The Onion writers must read this story and weep. I don't know what else to say, I'm fucking speechless.
I can think of something else sometimes referred to as a derogatory name for black people. Should they be removed too, so the people remaining can start to heal?
So this rock was valuable enough that instead of having it hauled off or broken up, the university had it relocated. And yet instead of saying “hey look, just because it’s black and was once called a slur doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable” these morons predictably went with “get rid of it.”
This valuable rock just got moved simply because it’s black. Good job, leftists.
The boulder is a rare, large example of a pre-Cambrian era glacial erratic that experts say is likely over 2 billion years old
The rock is not just a rock, is an apparently important rock that is also named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin.
The reason for changing it was that in 1920 it was sometimes referred to by racists using a slur.
So the rock is not named that, it has an actual name, it has been 100 years since someone referred to it using a slur but they think removing it makes the world better, somehow.
No, it's even worse than that. It was called a niggerhead (descriptive term at the time, as explained by others) in a magazine in the 1920s, LITERALLY ONCE. Once. And not officially, by the University, either, but by some sort of scientific magazine...
Worse still, when they went looking for "evidence", they couldn't even find the article in question, so this is literally based on hearsay...
But honestly, what should really worry people here, is the power that this demonstrates. If the "black student society" agitates enough, they can convince the university board to literally do anything, no matter the logic, the grievance, or the cost, financial and otherwise... That's what should truly scare you, and I think that's a big part of why they did it. To prove a point, and as a show of power. :-S
As amusing as this may initially seem, I think it's slightly more significant than that...
Because what it shows, or rather what it SHOULD tell you, is that these people (the "black student union", or whoever the fuck agitated for this) will never be satisfied with simply "renaming" something they find offensive (I note that this rock was never even actually named what they are complaining about, so again, even worse...), they literally want to DESTROY it...
So what happens when they apply this same logic to, I dunno, Jefferson City? Or Columbus, Ohio? Or fucking Washington, DC? Do we let them burn the cities down, to "cleanse" them of their sins? Because that is the ultimate endpoint of this logic, and that is the truly frightening thing...
Also, the fact that they have, apparently, literally nothing better to do/agitate about, and no more important or pressing matters to focus on, oh and, seeing as no one has mentioned it yet, the fact that they literally interrupted an old Native American burial ground, to move the stupid rock... Almost without asking. Because again, fucking clown world, and "hierarchies of oppression/privilege", and all that stupid shit...
One rule for thee, and not for me... Fucking ridiculous.
It's getting nearly impossible to write satire anymore. The Onion writers must read this story and weep. I don't know what else to say, I'm fucking speechless.
Fuck The Onion, they are terrible.
Babylon Bee seems to be the only decent satire at the moment.
even bee is struggling to keep up
There are some small ones that are good, too. I like the Waterford Whispers News: https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/
I can think of something else sometimes referred to as a derogatory name for black people. Should they be removed too, so the people remaining can start to heal?
A reporter called it a nigger rock 100 years ago because it's a black rock
So this rock was valuable enough that instead of having it hauled off or broken up, the university had it relocated. And yet instead of saying “hey look, just because it’s black and was once called a slur doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable” these morons predictably went with “get rid of it.”
This valuable rock just got moved simply because it’s black. Good job, leftists.
The rock is not just a rock, is an apparently important rock that is also named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin.
The reason for changing it was that in 1920 it was sometimes referred to by racists using a slur.
So the rock is not named that, it has an actual name, it has been 100 years since someone referred to it using a slur but they think removing it makes the world better, somehow.
No, it's even worse than that. It was called a niggerhead (descriptive term at the time, as explained by others) in a magazine in the 1920s, LITERALLY ONCE. Once. And not officially, by the University, either, but by some sort of scientific magazine...
Worse still, when they went looking for "evidence", they couldn't even find the article in question, so this is literally based on hearsay...
But honestly, what should really worry people here, is the power that this demonstrates. If the "black student society" agitates enough, they can convince the university board to literally do anything, no matter the logic, the grievance, or the cost, financial and otherwise... That's what should truly scare you, and I think that's a big part of why they did it. To prove a point, and as a show of power. :-S
As amusing as this may initially seem, I think it's slightly more significant than that...
Because what it shows, or rather what it SHOULD tell you, is that these people (the "black student union", or whoever the fuck agitated for this) will never be satisfied with simply "renaming" something they find offensive (I note that this rock was never even actually named what they are complaining about, so again, even worse...), they literally want to DESTROY it...
So what happens when they apply this same logic to, I dunno, Jefferson City? Or Columbus, Ohio? Or fucking Washington, DC? Do we let them burn the cities down, to "cleanse" them of their sins? Because that is the ultimate endpoint of this logic, and that is the truly frightening thing...
Also, the fact that they have, apparently, literally nothing better to do/agitate about, and no more important or pressing matters to focus on, oh and, seeing as no one has mentioned it yet, the fact that they literally interrupted an old Native American burial ground, to move the stupid rock... Almost without asking. Because again, fucking clown world, and "hierarchies of oppression/privilege", and all that stupid shit...
One rule for thee, and not for me... Fucking ridiculous.
So the racist paper beat the black rock? How does scissors get involved?
It must've been a bunch of angry dykes who got the whole complaint started?
"Patrick that's a rock".
This is why you dispose of your obsolete farm equipment.