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Harvard Law School has dropped it's seal because it's racist



as you can see, it has clear racist imagery, the wheat and the word "truth" in latin

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or it was apprently because it's based upon the family crest of the person who gave the land to the school and money to pay for it's first professor, the Royall family. the Royall family owned slaves two centuries ago http://www.bbc.com/news/education-35726878

so because someone owned slaves, we must purge this

they are also getting rid of "master" in academic titles.

the world has gone completely mad. we deserve donald trump

Sadly, Harvard doesn't realize that it never stops. You give on this and they'll ask for everything. It only ends with Harvard itself being purged from existence. You can't please the warriors. You can either resist them or willingly purge yourself from reality by concession after concession.

I don't understand why this upsets you two so much. The guy was a brutal slaveowner. Her burned people alive. Now I obviously have better shit to do than care about a crest. I guarantee most people, most Harvard students, couldn't remember the crest before all this. But now being aware of what a terrible guy this was, I think it's only natural the school doesn't really want to be involved with that. It's a stupid thing to ask to change but it's also stupid to refuse to and defend such a brutal person to make a point.

The master thing is stupid. Like calling someone master is stupid, as is refusing to use the title because it sounds racist. I honestly think college is too long and these kids get bored.

We'd be hard pressed to find any crest representing anything centuries old that doesn't have a lot of awful associated with it. Because history is awful.

Pointless trying to arbitrarily toss one out while others remain.

Agree with Saz. To focus any time and energy on petitioning for the crest to be changed is stupid. But once the issue is moved into a spotlight, the only dumber thing one could do is defend it and refuse to make the change. It's inconsequential either way, and only people with nothing better to do could work up the energy to stake out a strong position on either side of this fight.

i'm not surprised by the number of cucks in this thread defending the removal i'm just surprised by who they are.

Every land grant college in the South should be closed

Maybe they will institute safe rooms after this as well. Should help.

Who cares? Most of these SJWs bitch about shit everyone learns in high school ie slavery, civil rights issues, colonialism etc. Most of them have no sense of the world outside of the US which is why they complain about obvious first world shit. A guy used a black and white photo of the KKK from the prohibition era to make the point that the KKK is relevant in 2016. They aren't, no one cares about the KKK anymore. They have at best 5,000 members in a country of over 300 million. The Nation of Islam has 50,000 members and has for more influence in the US than the KKK.