m2bear said:

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Why is this in the football forum?

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m2bear said:

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Why is this in the football forum?

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cyrusthebear said:

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RENAME AMERICA

this is obviously the next move as "America" is a masculine name, while Europe and Asia are feminine.

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m2bear said:

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Why is this in the football forum?

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"We are all thinking about statues and named institutions this week. The Berkeley, California, case is particularly interesting. The university is named after philosophical Berkeley, and the naming is based on somebody liking the closing lines of a poem he wrote glorifying imperial expansion into America. So, that would seem to make it tainted in name and purpose.

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bearister said:

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" Ireland's most celebrated philosopher.."

He was an Orangeman and descendent of the Occupiers, we don't claim that b@stard.

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Anarchistbear said:

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University of California @ George Jackson

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kelly09 said:

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Anarchistbear said:

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University of California @ George Jackson

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And Angela Davis

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AunBear89 said:

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bearister said:

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" Ireland's most celebrated philosopher.."

He was an Orangeman and descendent of the Occupiers, we don't claim that b@stard.

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This guy is Ireland's most celebrated philosopher:


He's also from my wife's part of town.

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LMK5 said:

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BearForce2 said:

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I just want to note that I'm waiting for the peaceful protesters to demand the University of California Berkeley to be renamed because George Berkeley owned slaves. If they want to burn down Sproul Hall, let them do it because if you try to protect it with resistance, it will probably fan the flames. Give in to the potentially, mostly, peaceful leftist mob?

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What a tangled web we weave, huh? Have a few self-annointed puritans meet in a dark room and decide who no longer deserves to have their name on a building, when at the very same time Berkeley's name is plastered all over the paperwork lying in front of them. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.

But here's where it gets messy for Cal. Renaming a building after a long-ago scientist is one thing, but removing the name Berkeley, a name that Cal has in fact trademarked, endangers an income stream. That little wrinkle has an interesting affect on the outrage level of the puritans.

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okaydo said:

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cyrusthebear said:

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RENAME AMERICA

this is obviously the next move as "America" is a masculine name, while Europe and Asia are feminine.

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America is a female name. When have you heard people refer to America as him and he?

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82gradDLSdad said:

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okaydo said:

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cyrusthebear said:

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RENAME AMERICA

this is obviously the next move as "America" is a masculine name, while Europe and Asia are feminine.

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America is a female name. When have you heard people refer to America as him and he?

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America took its name from Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. One of the few things I remember from a high school history class taught by a teacher I despised. I remember the name because I got a question about this very topic wrong on a test. When I asked the teacher where this fact was mentioned since it was in neither his lecture notes nor in the text book he replied that it was mentioned in the caption of a picture in the text book. He never mentioned it, he never made a remark about it but it was on a test. *******!!! But I do remember it.

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Big C said:

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LMK5 said:

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BearForce2 said:

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I just want to note that I'm waiting for the peaceful protesters to demand the University of California Berkeley to be renamed because George Berkeley owned slaves. If they want to burn down Sproul Hall, let them do it because if you try to protect it with resistance, it will probably fan the flames. Give in to the potentially, mostly, peaceful leftist mob?

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What a tangled web we weave, huh? Have a few self-annointed puritans meet in a dark room and decide who no longer deserves to have their name on a building, when at the very same time Berkeley's name is plastered all over the paperwork lying in front of them. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.

But here's where it gets messy for Cal. Renaming a building after a long-ago scientist is one thing, but removing the name Berkeley, a name that Cal has in fact trademarked, endangers an income stream. That little wrinkle has an interesting affect on the outrage level of the puritans.

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While, intellectually, you guys may have a point, how about you both shut up, before the "right" person reads it and the idea picks up steam.

Mods, move this thread to the Baseball and Olympic Sports Forum!

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Big C said:

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LMK5 said:

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BearForce2 said:

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I just want to note that I'm waiting for the peaceful protesters to demand the University of California Berkeley to be renamed because George Berkeley owned slaves. If they want to burn down Sproul Hall, let them do it because if you try to protect it with resistance, it will probably fan the flames. Give in to the potentially, mostly, peaceful leftist mob?

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What a tangled web we weave, huh? Have a few self-annointed puritans meet in a dark room and decide who no longer deserves to have their name on a building, when at the very same time Berkeley's name is plastered all over the paperwork lying in front of them. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.

But here's where it gets messy for Cal. Renaming a building after a long-ago scientist is one thing, but removing the name Berkeley, a name that Cal has in fact trademarked, endangers an income stream. That little wrinkle has an interesting affect on the outrage level of the puritans.

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While, intellectually, you guys may have a point, how about you both shut up, before the "right" person reads it and the idea picks up steam.

Mods, move this thread to the Baseball and Olympic Sports Forum!

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