University of Wisconsin moves rock seen
as symbol of racism
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/6/2021 7:19:39 PM
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin removed a large boulder from its Madison campus on Friday at the request of minority students who view the rock as a symbol of racism. Chamberlin Rock, on the top of Observatory Hill, is named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a geologist and former university president. Students of color on campus say the rock represents a history of discrimination. The boulder was referred to as a derogatory name for Black people in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 1925. (Snip) The boulder is a rare, large example of a pre-Cambrian era glacial erratic that experts
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 8/6/2021 7:26:59 PM (No. 870571)
It's a rock. 96 years ago someone used a slang word when referring to it so the rock has to go ? This is the left, always offended , always bullying.
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A 6,000 year old rock is racist? Wow! What next... The white clouds in the blue sky?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/6/2021 7:30:29 PM (No. 870579)
When does the Democrat party have to go? That was the organization that started all this.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Schnapps 8/6/2021 7:31:06 PM (No. 870581)
University Chancellor Rebecca Blank should have recused herself for a last name that exudes white privilege. Now she should remove herself for incompetence.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 8/6/2021 7:32:08 PM (No. 870585)
I think they lay awake nights think,"I wonder what other insane things I can make these idiots do?"
This is just looney. Should get a hard NO.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Schnapps 8/6/2021 7:34:26 PM (No. 870590)
Since the rock was there first, shouldn't the U of Wisconsin remove itself?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 8/6/2021 7:36:57 PM (No. 870593)
“It’s not the rock’s fault that it got that terrible and unfortunate nickname,” he said. “But the fact that it’s . . . being moved shows that the world is getting a little better today.”
The University of Wisconsin is making the world a better place, one rock at a time. This improvement deserves some sort of national award.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Daisy Mae 8/6/2021 7:40:16 PM (No. 870596)
wouldn't it be easier to just remove the black students that are continuasly complaining about this and that. After a while there will be no more black boards, black paint, black hills.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Michaelus 8/6/2021 7:41:36 PM (No. 870597)
Thanks - I really needed a good laugh.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Northcross 8/6/2021 7:53:49 PM (No. 870601)
Bad Day at Black Rock, starring the idiot woke administrators at the U of Wisconsin.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
aasilver 8/6/2021 8:02:50 PM (No. 870604)
I am VERY offended by the 'Democrat' party because of it's history of racism from its' inception until the present day. Slavery, lynching's, segregation, civil rights and present day segregation (separate Union buildings on campus and separate graduation ceremonies).
I am offended by all of these practices and much more that is part of the history and present policies of the Democrat party.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 8/6/2021 8:07:14 PM (No. 870606)
I have a whole lot of rocks out in the field and they are racist because they tear up red or yellow equipment. Do you think these WOKE college students will go haul them out for me? I won't bother to hold my breath.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/6/2021 8:15:38 PM (No. 870612)
Oh me nerves. I guess some people have nothing better to do. I pity them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/6/2021 8:41:47 PM (No. 870627)
Black bullying is like any other kind of bullying - finding things to be offended about, no matter how innocuous, then forcing change.
At some point in dealing with bullies, the targeted victim has to say no, and has to retaliate.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 8/6/2021 9:09:02 PM (No. 870646)
thank GOD these snowflake reds don't live in..
NIGERIA!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
privateer 8/6/2021 9:58:42 PM (No. 870661)
I demand that the democrat party be disbanded. It is the party of Slavery, Discrimination, the KKK, Segregation, Jim Crow. poll taxes, lynchings and vote fraud. Won't happen...those are all things that black folks love. It's why they slavishly...vote demonrat.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 8/6/2021 10:07:39 PM (No. 870664)
Dumb as a box of rocks.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bazi 8/6/2021 10:13:14 PM (No. 870666)
But UW at Madison allowed Karl Armstrong back on the campus after his 1970 bomb killed a researcher in Sterling Hall .
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Paglia guy 8/6/2021 10:23:52 PM (No. 870673)
And in other news, the world’s largest asset managers, Blackrock, said…
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Paglia guy 8/6/2021 10:25:22 PM (No. 870674)
This article prompted a hankering for some Brazil Nuts.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/6/2021 10:28:03 PM (No. 870677)
It didn't have 'niggerhead' written on it, did it? That would be really really bad. Just ask Rick Perry.
Keep looking for racism, and you will find it. Maybe thats the idea.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/6/2021 10:45:46 PM (No. 870688)
I have a boulder near me that offends me too.
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I have reached the point where I detest blacks. They have become the nation's cancer.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Miester 8/7/2021 12:29:50 AM (No. 870737)
It's a rock, America was founded by white men English language has started by white men so all of America and everybody including blacks are racist. We need to take our whole nuclear Arsenal and blow up America
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 8/7/2021 1:57:07 AM (No. 870758)
The nice thing about being a curmudgeon is that I'm just about impossible to insult. Saying that I lied about something will do it, but anything else is just water off a duck's back. It makes dealing with life in general much easier.
Maybe these snowflakes could learn something from this.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
smcchk 8/7/2021 3:11:06 AM (No. 870770)
The Wisconsin State Journal used the racial slur, not the rock - get rid of it, please!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 8/7/2021 4:53:52 AM (No. 870786)
So rocks are now racist? OK, onto the list it goes.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/7/2021 6:09:01 AM (No. 870812)
When institution principals receive letters from organizations like BLM or their representatives requesting silly ridiculous things like this subject. they should use it as toilet paper and mail it back!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/7/2021 7:31:43 AM (No. 870839)
I’ve heard of the Moonstone before....was this the coonstone?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Ladyknowsalot 8/7/2021 7:57:27 AM (No. 870863)
This story is the penultimate on the absurdity of today's social climate. A rare geological specimen on a college campus made a racist comment. No wait. One hundred years ago, someone called the specimen a word deemed racist today. America's intelligentsia decides it must remedy this grievance by removing the racist billion year old boulder. Why not explain as you would to a small child that rocks do not think and talk or call names!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/7/2021 8:04:04 AM (No. 870869)
Is there anything besides entitlements that does not offend blacks?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Laotzu 8/7/2021 8:31:00 AM (No. 870895)
So, If we give Kamala Harris that same nickname, then we have to get rid of her, too?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 8/7/2021 10:23:53 AM (No. 870999)
Anybody familiar with ocean life will know what a certain coral formation is colloquially called. So are they going to dredge up and destroy millions of those coral heads. I am almost eighty years old and never considered myself racist but I must admit to it now. BLM…creating new racists every hour.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/7/2021 10:55:06 AM (No. 871031)
They say the racist rock will be used for educational purposes in it's new location. Why couldn't it be used in the current location? They could teach that sometimes a rock is just a rock. They could teach that you can only be offended by things like a rock if you choose to. They are find racism where none exists. They made it a racial issue. Stop please.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
DVC 8/7/2021 12:08:14 PM (No. 871113)
They really are crazy as all get out. Hate eventually destroys your brain. This is proof.
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