{"id":1519143,"date":"2022-06-16T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519143"},"modified":"2022-06-16T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:04:25","slug":"you-all-are-morons-george-washington-university-dumps-colonials-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-all-are-morons-george-washington-university-dumps-colonials-nickname\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You All Are Morons\u2019: George Washington University Dumps \u2018Colonials\u2019 Nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-all-are-morons-george-washington-university-dumps-colonials-nickname%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519143&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>George Washington University, apparently embarrassed about its time-honored nickname \u201cColonials,\u201d \u00a0is planning on dumping it in 2023.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">George Washington University, my alma mater, is removing the Colonials moniker because imbeciles at the university are afraid to tell idiot college kids and their woke allies, \u201cNo, you are all morons.\u201d Enjoy: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BvfaLImHk6\">pic.twitter.com\/BvfaLImHk6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1537205887307235334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though a survey of 7,300 students found them nearly evenly-split on the issue, with 44% finding the nickname offensive and 43% wanting to keep it, the university, chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress, is seemingly capitulating to political correctness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth the board and special committee ultimately determined that given the division among the community about the moniker, it can no longer serve its purpose as a name that unifies,\u201d the university said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/gwtoday.gwu.edu\/gw-discontinue-use-colonials-moniker\">statement<\/a> released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/parkhistory\/online_books\/colonials-patriots\/bibliography.htm\">National Park Service<\/a> has no problem using the term; with a section of their website dedicated to the history of \u201cColonials and Patriots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the university stressed the importance of \u201cunity\u201d as a reason for jettisoning the moniker; Board Chair Grace Speights said, \u201cA moniker must unify our community, draw people together and serve as a source of pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Alan Bracey, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, echoed, \u201cToday, the moniker no longer does the work that a moniker should\u2014namely, unifying the campus behind our academic and athletic institutional aspirations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only do the sports teams use the name, but the university\u2019s medical facility is the Colonial Health Center and meals and laundry are paid for in Colonial Cash,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10922095\/George-Washington-University-drops-longtime-Colonials-nickname-deeming-term-offensive.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, the board created <a href=\"https:\/\/trustees.gwu.edu\/task-force-naming\">Task Force on Naming<\/a>; in July 2020 President Emeritus Thomas LeBlanc convened a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/president.gwu.edu\/special-committee-colonials-moniker\" aria-label=\"Special Committee on the Colonials Moniker; link opens in new window\">Special Committee on the Colonials Moniker<\/a>\u00a0to recommend whether to ditch the nickname.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe committee sought to understand the history of the term Colonial, how Colonials was initially selected for the moniker, the harm caused by the moniker and affinity for and prominence of the moniker within the GW community,\u201d the university\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n<p>They cited George Washington himself, claiming, \u201cAccording to history experts, George Washington himself firmly rejected the term \u2018colonial\u2019 in the few times he used it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued, \u201cResearch also found that the term \u2018Colonials\u2019 was not used during the 1607-1776 Colonial Era, and it did not become popular until the Colonial Revival period of the late 19th and 20th centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Colonials became GW\u2019s moniker in 1926, the special committee determined that the moniker arose casually and haphazardly, lacking thoughtful university-wide consideration,\u201d the statement added. \u201cFor opponents, Colonials means colonizers who stole land and resources from indigenous groups, killed or exiled Native peoples and introduced slavery into the colonies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University, apparently embarrassed about its time-honored nickname \u201cColonials,\u201d \u00a0is planning on dumping it in 2023. George Washington University, my alma mater, is removing the Colonials moniker because imbeciles at the university are afraid to tell idiot college kids and their woke allies, \u201cNo, you are all morons.\u201d Enjoy: pic.twitter.com\/BvfaLImHk6 \u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1519203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}