On 4/24/2022 3:24 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>> It seems that one of the buildings at my old university has been renamed
>> and a portrait of the individual it was named after has been removed,
>> namely Isaiah Bowman, who apparently served as an adviser to FDR:
>>
>> https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/04/23/university-of-waterloo-quietly-removes-plaque-portrait-of-anti-semite.html
>>
>> Bowman was born not too far from the university and emigrated to the US
>> where he rose to become president of Johns Hopkins University for a decade.
>>
>> I don't recall if I ever set foot in that building in my time at the
>> university, let alone saw the portrait. I certainly didn't know anything
>> about Bowman or his views until today.
>>
>
> I found several nasty quotes Bowman supposedly said but they aren’t written
> like anything anyone actually said or wrote down and all come from one book
> and I have no idea if it has any citations. They’re even trying to blame
> Berman for the current war in Ukraine! The Jewish scholars involved said
> they should leave the bust up so they can have conversations about it but
> the students got their panties in a bunch and demanded he be erased from
> history.
>
I wonder if Henry Ford will be next?

On 4/24/2022 11:21 AM, suzeeq wrote:
> On 4/24/2022 3:24 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>> It seems that one of the buildings at my old university has been renamed
>>> and a portrait of the individual it was named after has been removed,
>>> namely Isaiah Bowman, who apparently served as an adviser to FDR:
>>>
>>> https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/04/23/university-of-waterloo-quietly-removes-plaque-portrait-of-anti-semite.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Bowman was born not too far from the university and emigrated to the US
>>> where he rose to become president of Johns Hopkins University for a
>>> decade.
>>>
>>> I don't recall if I ever set foot in that building in my time at the
>>> university, let alone saw the portrait. I certainly didn't know anything
>>> about Bowman or his views until today.
>>>
>>
>> I found several nasty quotes Bowman supposedly said but they aren’t
>> written
>> like anything anyone actually said or wrote down and all come from one
>> book
>> and I have no idea if it has any citations.  They’re even trying to blame
>> Berman for the current war in Ukraine!  The Jewish scholars involved said
>> they should leave the bust up so they can have conversations about it but
>> the students got their panties in a bunch and demanded he be erased from
>> history.
>>
> I wonder if Henry Ford will be next?

I wonder if the Jewish scholars will say they leave a bust of Adolf up
so they can have conversations about it...