From the film
Lincoln, the vampire slayer
The war on history came for all our past, from Columbus to the Founding Fathers to Abraham Lincoln.
Now, college campuses appear to be conducting mop-up operations.
The College Fix reports that officials removed a bust of Lincoln from a Cornell University library exhibit after somebody complained.
“Someone complained, and it was gone,” Cornell University biology professor Randy Wayne said, according to The College Fix.
It wasn’t just the bust. They removed the plaque with the words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, too. In its place stands an empty display and a plain white wall.
Perhaps that says a lot more about the current state of our “elite” institutions than a statue of Lincoln and an ode to America’s founding principles.
The Lincoln bust and plaque were part of a “temporary exhibit” put on display in 2013 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Given that the exhibit has been there for nearly a decade.
Did this complaint come from a woke student or the ghost of Jefferson Davis? It’s unclear.
Still, it’s telling that a single complaint led to the removal of a cherished part of our history, with seemingly no resistance whatsoever from college administrators. Par for the course.
When our country’s most powerful institutions aren’t going out of their way to placate the most absurd demands of every left-wing extremist, they generally are leading the revolution. Lincoln only led this country through a war that ended slavery, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and ultimately was killed while leading this cause. But that just isn’t good enough for the zealous, middling bureaucrats now standing to judge him. Lincoln never owned slaves, but why should a few details get in the way.
It shouldn’t be surprising to see Lincoln unceremoniously dumped by Cornell or any other Ivy League school.
A few years ago, the so-called experts—as the corporate media portrayed them—weighed in on the war on history and said it was preposterous that removal of Confederate statues and monuments would lead to a general attack on historic figures such as Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.
Now these experts stay mostly silent as Lincoln, Washington, and many other parts of our past have come down, too.
A vacant space truly is the best symbol to represent the values of our elite institutions.
Cornell holds one of the 5 original copies of the Address
Action such as what Cornell has done, is why history is cylindrical
as I said, it was a good yarn
Clowns to left, jokers to the right
here I am stuck in the middle with you
aren’t you lucky