[Haven_Monahan]

In fairness to JCC, I'm sure he'd look at the sort of things that go on at Yale these days, and insist that all mention of his name be removed from anything on campus.

The South, the South...God knows what shall become of her.

[panic]

the sort of things that go on at Yale these days

What do you mean by this?

[Haven_Monahan]

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.

[howeman]

Though, congregationalists are one of the most pro LGTB churches and have been for a long time

[literallycancer]

Atheists, the horror!

[fludlight]

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.

[Jill_the_Pill]

> "admits black students and employs black faculty"

Although rather few of either.

[jonwachob91]

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...

[Avshalom]

>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.

[jtedward]

Well it's more effective then griping on the internet. The spoiled child approach has done wonders for Trump and the Republicans.

[toehead2000]

This can be interpreted two, opposing ways. Very clever

[mjmsmith]

Won't someone think of the pro-slavery opinions?

[omegaworks]

> Looks back wistfully at the glory days of a land and cultural elite that amassed and retained their wealth by owning other people.

Hmm...

[B1FF_PSUVM]

The shopkeepers schooled the landowners big time. Sic transit.