unbelievable. a right-wing donor and member of the board of visitors has basically pressured UVA into suspending the University Guide Service, a highly-regarded student org that runs tours, because it tells prospective students and their parents that Jefferson was a slaveholder.
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I worked at UVA many years ago, and alumni of that school have a bizarre obsession with Jefferson.
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-anti-americans-signs-of-times-one.html
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-anti-americans-signs-of-times-one.html
John Wayles, Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law, fathered both Martha Jefferson (Jefferson's wife, the mother of some of his children) and Sally Hemings (one of Jefferson's chattel slaves, the mother of more of his children).
The best solution would be to completely divorce from the state, reject state funds and get them completely out of their hair.
I feel like people know the slaveholding, they know the rape, but they don't know she was 14 when he started.
(ask me how I know that many people would say that)
It's also not anything like a secret so what is UVA DOING?
OR
Delete your account.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
If that bothers you, Mr. Ellis, then perhaps you're ill-suited to sit on a university board.
“He is the co-founder and past president of The Jefferson Council in Charlottesville, VA.”
So, our gov didn’t rely on taxes in order to spend a 💵
And bonds are just a savings account at The Fed.
Revisionist economics: We rely on billionaire tax money to stay solvent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/23/uva-bert-ellis-text-messages/
What young people need to learn about is our Founding Fathers!
Also Conservatives:
No not like that!
"The University Guides now seem intent on ‘contextualizing’ Mr. Jefferson as a slave holder and rapist, and to completely undermine his part of the Founding of America and our University,” Ellis said in a 2021 article published to the Jefferson Council’s website.
There it is.
Wow, we really should listen to his opinions on history
https://thejeffersoncouncil.com/hiring-guides-who-hate-uva-not-a-good-look/
No one seriously denies he was; the question is what to emphasize, and how much is appropriate.
Are they just going to openly deny any undeniable thing they find unflattering now, no matter how insane it makes them look??
They’re a party of toddlers. (With apologies to actual toddlers everywhere.)
https://mel.virginia.edu/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UVA/s/IeFAoTB5ho
Democrats aren’t allowed to simply say: All money comes from gov that issues our currency or banks that issue loans
Otherwise, Fascists will pay for Fascism
Are you sure you’re in the right thread?
Our mainstream economists talk as though money comes from tax payers who can’t afford to pay for WWII.
Our media will crucify anyone who says our gov can always pay for WWII
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/01/editorial-we-deserve-better-than-bert#google_vignette
He refused to free them because he wanted to keep collecting the money they made.
And the most profitable things they produced were more slaves. He wrote about having women forcibly impregnated so he could sell their children.
Seems that UVA values money more than education.
Checkmate, libs. /s
Wait, not THAT kind of knowledge.
Yeah cool lemme know when those students improve to the point where Jefferson was never an enslaver and a rapist, looking forward to it