Discussion: Yale To Reinstate Dishwasher Who Smashed Window Depicting Slaves

Bravo, Yale! This is the gracious, calming route to take under these particular circumstances.

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Is he going to pay for the window? He should.

A society of ordered liberty, as Justice Cardozo called it, cannot let people go around destroying property because they feel aggrieved by something they see. How would we feel if a museum guard destroyed a sculpture, because she believes that showing nude figures of women is degrading?

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“There’s always better ways of doing things like that than just destroying things,” he said. “It wasn’t my property, and I had no right to do it.”

Absolutely right. You should offer full restitution for what you destroyed.

Unfortunately too many people think that there is a Right Not To Be Offended in the Bill Of Rights.

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I can’t blame the guy.

It’s the 21st century and still we glamorize “slaves picking cotton” in stained glass at one of the top universities in the country? In New England for crying out loud.

As with the hate banner, all racist glorification of whites owning others, must be if not destroyed at least thrown out on the trash head of history! We have no place for them 150 years after the civil war. Actually we had no place for such hate crap the year after the civil war!

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Compassion from all parties. Humanity even.


Now back to our regularly scheduled:

2016 GOP Sh^tShow On Lake Erie!

jw1

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C’mon. The window was old. It wasn’t ‘glorifying’ slavery. It was telling a piece of our history. It’s like sanitizing Mark Twain. We want to REMEMBER history so we won’t do it again.

Good on Yale, but now they have other questions, too. Remove offensive symbols? Keep them as historic? Cover them up? Competing values in a changing universe.

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Yep. You nailed it.

“Unfortunately too many people think that there is a Right Not To Be Offended in the Bill Of Rights.”

Let me guess: u white right?

If so, let me tell you as a black man eventually BOTH cheeks get worn and painful from being turned back and forth all the time. In some cases you have just had enough.

And as a white person you WILL NEVER have your cheeks made raw like a black person’s in this society. NEVER.

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Yay!!! Didn’t read the article but YAY! Smart move.

“Is he going to pay for the window? He should.”

You’ve made the good case. You changed my mind. Good for you.

They should charge him some nominal amount, not the actual cost of restoration, which would probably be prohibitive to impossible for someone at his salary level.

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Hey, life is tough and then you die. Still doesn’t give people the right to destroy others property. Being offended as an excuse is just that…an excuse.

Imagine for a moment that your little old Jewish grandmothers nursing home has stained glass window dipicting hilter and the nazis…and you worked there as a dish washer to pay her rent, what would you do?

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It was on the 1930s when that window went up to glorify Jim Crow.

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I am white but I have seen enough to know that what you are saying is the pure truth.

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Not at all the same thing. Not renaming Calhoun College has been a thorn in Yale’s side for a long time. These windows were made in 1930, and seem to reflect Calhoun’s vision of slavery. It’s mind boggling that Yale first, included them (there are others) as part of this building in 1930, and second, that they have not renamed the college. This man, John C. Calhoun, makes Trump look good. We’ll see what Yale does now that it’s under this microscope.

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How about putting them in one of their many museums, showing what used to be.

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Hell, it’s just an 80 year old piece of glass with a an ugly cartoon on it.
We’re not talking priceless or irreplaceable here.

The sentiment behind breaking it is far more valuable to Yale and society as a lesson learned than a crappy piece of glass.

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Only bad thing is stuff like that needs to be saved, but put in some special place with similar crap to remind us of the shit we’ve done and glorified in the past. Kind of like civil war “hero” stuff.