{"id":1938631,"date":"2023-05-26T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-washington-university-bows-to-woke-mob-announces-new-nickname-for-extremely-offensive-moniker\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:44:47","slug":"george-washington-university-bows-to-woke-mob-announces-new-nickname-for-extremely-offensive-moniker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-washington-university-bows-to-woke-mob-announces-new-nickname-for-extremely-offensive-moniker\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington University changes offensive nickname due to pressure from activists."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fgeorge-washington-university-bows-to-woke-mob-announces-new-nickname-for-extremely-offensive-moniker%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=1938631&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--><h2>George Washington University Changes Nickname to &#8220;Revolutionaries&#8221;<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The former \u201cColonials\u201d will now call themselves \u201cRevolutionaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that \u201cRevolutionaries\u201d retains a meaningful connection both to the university\u2019s illustrious namesake and to the world-changing event he helped author.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news, as usual, is that the drive to change the university\u2019s nickname originated in the half-truths and outright lies of woke mythology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sa.gwu.edu\/gw-mascot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petition<\/a> posted to the George Washington University Student Association web page, the name \u201cColonials\u201d is regarded as \u201cextremely offensive\u201d because it \u201chas too deep a connection to colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These objections reveal both logical and historical absurdities that lay at the heart of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/country-music-songwriter-blasts-wokeness-new-single-just-saying-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wokeness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First, there is nothing intrinsically \u201coffensive\u201d about the name \u201cColonials,\u201d just as there is nothing intrinsically virtuous about the name \u201cRevolutionaries.\u201d It all depends on the one element missing from woke historical consciousness: context.<\/p>\n<p>It is true, of course, that colonialism, as a corollary of aggressive imperialism, wrought havoc across the globe for centuries. Agents of colonialism perpetrated every barbarity known to humankind: theft, violence, kidnapping and enslavement, rape, torture, murder, and the total subjugation of entire populations.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the name \u201cColonials\u201d does not itself convey \u201csystemic oppression,\u201d whatever that means. George Washington came of age as a subject in the British Empire, a \u201ccolonial\u201d by mere definition. The word \u201ccolony\u201d also has benign meanings whether applied to people, ants, or bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the moral acceptability of \u201cRevolutionaries\u201d depends entirely on who is making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jesus-revolution-doubles-industry-estimates-box-office-opening-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revolution<\/a> and for what reason. By the logic of the Student Association\u2019s petition, the word \u201cRevolutionaries\u201d might have \u201ctoo deep a connection\u201d to Hitler\u2019s National Socialists, Lenin\u2019s Bolsheviks, Mao\u2019s Chinese Communists, and many others who brought bloodthirsty tyrants to power.<\/p>\n<p>There is no moral value in\u00a0 \u201cColonials\u201d or \u201cRevolutionaries.\u201d Apart from a particular context, one is not bad and the other good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>History does not support the near-pathological simplicity of a woke narrative that posits \u201csystemic oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two hypothetical examples, each rooted in actual history, will suffice to illustrate.<\/p>\n<p>First, an eighteenth-century Scottish Highlander resents his nation\u2019s loss of autonomy as part of Great Britain, sees his culture vanishing and his land stolen, is forced to sail for North America as an indentured servant, wins his freedom, emigrates to the North American interior, becomes an Indian agent, plies the local chieftain with good Scottish whisky, and cheats the entire tribe out of its ancestral home.<\/p>\n<p>Second, a nineteenth-century Cherokee Indian resents the encroachments of surrounding white settlements, sees his culture vanishing and his land stolen, suffers along the Trail of Tears, arrives in his new \u201chome\u201d west of the Mississippi River, resettles and rebuilds with his family, his possessions \u2026 and his five Black slaves.<\/p>\n<p>What can the woke narrative tell us about the thieving Highlander and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/african-american-history\/cherokee-emancipation-proclamation-1863\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slaveholding Cherokee<\/a>? Into which category should we place them? Oppressor or oppressed?<\/p>\n<p>History is filled with such woke-defying complexities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On a lighter note, the university announced its new moniker in a video hosted by alumnus Chuck Todd of NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Though marred by the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/letts-college-students-finally-paying-price-woke-activism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nonsense<\/a> that permeates modern academia, such as platitudinous references to an imaginary \u201cglobal community,\u201d the video does feature several students who applaud the new name because it continues to honor George Washington himself.<\/p>\n<p>This is heartening. One hopes that these and other students will take the time to investigate the true causes and nature of the American Revolution. The more they understand these truths, the more their commitment to preserving them will grow.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, one wonders how long such noble sentiments can withstand the malignant forces that provoked the name-change in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>George Washington University has changed its nickname from &#8220;Colonials&#8221; to &#8220;Revolutionaries.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The decision was based on the woke mythology that the name &#8220;Colonials&#8221; is &#8220;extremely offensive.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>There is no moral value in either name, as it depends on context.<\/li>\n<li>History is complex and defies woke narratives of &#8220;systemic oppression.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The university&#8217;s new name still honors George Washington.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/george-washington-university-bows-woke-mob-announces-new-nickname-extremely-offensive-moniker\/\">George Washington University Bows to Woke Mob, Announces New Nickname for &#8216;Extremely Offensive&#8217; Moniker<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University has changed its name from &#8220;Colonials&#8221; to &#8220;Revolutionaries.&#8221; The new name honors the university&#8217;s namesake and his role in the American Revolution. However, the push to change the name came from controversial associations with colonialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1938632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[4091,5811,22500,8010,4150,4861,4086],"class_list":["post-1938631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-activists","tag-george","tag-nickname","tag-offensive","tag-pressure","tag-university","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938631","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\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}