Nationalize the Ivy League, So We Can Rename Yale “UConn New Haven”
Should Yale, bearing a slave trader's name, be renamed? Yes. Since Ivy League schools are engines of class inequality, we should first nationalize all the Ivies. Then Yale University can become UConn New Haven.
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Republican Senator Tom Cotton normally spends his time doing things like bashing immigrants, trying to escalate tensions between the United States and China, and calling on Trump to deploy the military to use “overwhelming” force against racial justice protesters. In the last few weeks, though, he’s also found time to denounce what he sometimes calls the “Jacobin mob” toppling statues.
Last week, Cotton discovered what he clearly thinks is a glaring hypocrisy in the position of that “mob.”
Yale was named after a notorious slave trader.
If the liberal mob wants to destroy Mount Rushmore, when will they rise up to change the name of Yale?
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) July 2, 2020
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