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.
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.