Boston University Mascot Threatened With Cancelation

You have to give liberal totalitarians this much: they are thorough. Not only is Gone With the Wind on the way to the memory hole for offending their sensibilities, they want to cancel the Boston University mascot, not because terriers have joined the rapidly expanding list of things that are racist, but because Rhett is named after Rhett Butler.

As basic civil order breaks down and American civilization begins to circle the drain, this is what educrats regard as a crisis:

BU President Robert A. Brown wrote in a letter to students, faculty, staff, and alumni on Wednesday that he has formed a committee to consider changing the mascot’s name in response to concerns that it is a tribute to a character associated with the Confederacy, slavery, and sexual assault. …

“It is reasonable for people to question why, at a university founded by abolitionists, we have a mascot nicknamed for a character in a film whose racist depictions are completely at odds with our own tradition,” Brown wrote. “It is time to address this question.”

Here’s how the mascot came to be named after a fictional character we are now obligated to hate:

BU students seized on the movie’s romantic power, naming the mascot “Rhett” because “no one loves Scarlett”—a play on the school’s official color—“more than Rhett.”

There was once a time when not everything had to be viewed through the lens of militant Black Lives Matter ideology. But that time is over now.

Nina Silber, a College of Arts & Sciences professor and chair of history and the author of This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) says she thinks many people make simple romanticized associations with the Rhett Butler name, viewing the character, played by Clark Gable, as dashing or brave. But, she says, people are generally unaware that he sought to save Scarlett from an attack by a Black man in a storyline that perpetuates deeply racist myths.

In real life, blacks never rape white women. Dispute this and you will be canceled as a racist.

Hard as it is to take this idiocy seriously, it is chilling to see how thoroughly liberals plan to erase anything that could conceivably be viewed as a challenge to their narrow ideology. American culture will be extirpated so that it can be replaced with shallow crap echoing their nauseating lies. Future generations will have no idea that we ever existed, other than a vague conviction that everything that came before them was bad.

On a tip from Jack D.

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