Easy-Peasy: "Someone Complained And It Was Gone."
We’re talking about this:
Cornell University Removes Lincoln bust and Gettysburg Address from Display After Student Complaint
Cornell University recently admitted to removing both a bust of President Abraham Lincoln and a plaque of the Gettysburg Address from its library after a student anonymously complained about the display, presumably due to so-called “racism.”
Fox News reports that biology professor Randy Wayne gave a very brief statement on the matter, simply saying “someone complained, and it was gone.” Wayne said that he first noticed the missing display several weeks earlier and asked the librarians what had happened, to which he was told that the school had received some kind of complaint; the librarians refused to provide any specific details on the nature of the complaint.
If it’s so easy, I need to start complaining more!
My employer just hired an ESG summer intern. They must be offering a B.S. degree in ESG at those esteemed universities now.
Cornell, where I spent a harrowing 2 years eons ago, fending off the various maniacal offshoots of the Frankfurt school’s incursion into French letters, has become a pathetic excuse ($$) for a university. Anything to degrade, destroy, deny connection, beauty, moral significance and meaning…Bloom wrote about this decline in the humanities, as has Bauerlein and now Mamet. But that our greatest president’s bust, along with the copy of his most profound, gut-wrenching speech from Gettysburg were taken to the storeroom to collect dust on a mere mealy-mouthed complaint, is revolting.