Thomas Jefferson Targeted at University He Founded

Mr. Magoo could have seen this coming. The extermination of Confederate memorials isn’t even complete and already liberals are coming after the Founding Fathers.

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and one of the three greatest men in American history (along with two other Virginia slaveowners, George Washington and James Madison), founded the University of Virginia. Militant students at that school have issued a list of demands that include the official demonization of Jefferson.

The Minority Rights Coalition (MRC) at UVA, a coalition of minority student groups, hosted the “March to Reclaim Our Grounds” on August 21 to “send a message to the university that we demand more from them [sic] in these times.”

Taking that vow literally, the MRC members delivered a ten-point list of demands during the rally articulating the steps they believe UVA must take to “reclaim” the campus…

One demand is that plaques acknowledging University of Virginia students and alumni who died in the Civil War be removed. For leftists, it is not enough that an enemy was defeated going on 2 centuries ago. Each soldier’s personal sacrifice must be forgotten. No wonder they hate Christianity; progressives are devoid of grace.

Another item on the list, conversely, asserts that the statue of Jefferson on UVA’s campus “serves as an emblem of white supremacy, and should be re-contextualized with a plaque to include that history”…

That is, a plaque to denounce Jefferson as a white racist, which is currently regarded by the establishment as the worst thing imaginable. Before a thought criminal is erased, he must be discredited.

In addition, the MRC ultimatum asserts that “all students, regardless of area of study, should have required education on white supremacy, colonization, and slavery as they directly relate to Thomas Jefferson, the University, and the city of Charlottesville,” complaining that the existing curriculum only mandates such classes for students in the College of Arts and Sciences, and even then allows them “to focus in on aspects of difference of their choice.”

Future generations will take no pride in living in a country founded by men as great as Thomas Jefferson. Cut off from their own history and heritage, they will have no basis for pride.

Everything sacred is profane to leftists, just as everything profane is sacred.

On a tip from J.