100-year-old University of Oregon statue draws controversy
In celebration of Oregon’s roots in pioneering, a statue of a pioneer, known simply as “The Pioneer,” was erected a century ago at the University of Oregon. And now, as the 100-year anniversary of the statue arrives, some in the campus community demand it be removed.
The Pioneer was the focus of a recent protest, at which dozens of students and faculty and others called for its removal and circulated a petition demanding as much, NPR Oregon reported.
Some of the protesters held signs stating things such as “whose history does UO honor” and “Who is the pioneer? It was evident that killing ‘Injuns’ was not a very unnatural happening.”
Some see the statue as a celebration of colonialism.
Let’s tear down some statues and burn some books…
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Why don’t they attack the REAL culprits of imperialist-colonization? The January “White Sale” @ Macy’s, JC Penney’s, Nordstrom, Bloomie’s?
Can they not make the connection between the KKK and these corporatists?
Thank goodness they are doing this now instead of back in the cave man days.
We would still be naked and without fire
Because SJW’s are such hardy explorers, of maybe each others colons.
I hate social justice jackasses and their unrelenting compulsion to try to tear down everything good.
The way I look at it, the pioneers were pioneer supremacists. Just about all the pioneers happened to be Caucasian, but that’s irrelevant.
So just how soon will these SJW morons demand that all the statues inside Statuary Hall in the US Capitol be torn down? Marcus Whitman would be glad to come back from the grave along with some of Cayuse Indians who killed him and his family in Walla Walla and kick their ass and take some scalps.
And if none of the Pioneers had ever come to Oregon in the 1840’s and 50’s they would all be British citizens or Russian or worse Mexican citizens now.
…..Where in fact, it’s the faculty of MOST universities/colleges that are the violent ones pushing for and promoting dissidents against America and all it stands for.
Ungrateful slimes and useful idiots at the same time.
It’s difficult to get that low but it seems college helps.
And in the case of the Donner Party?
Now that was Pioneering…
These revisionists are dangerous to this republic.
I think there is still enough of us to go kick their ass’s.
‘Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.’
Being illuminated staring into a handheld device,,,
I’ll never understand. Without these pioneers America would still be a beautiful land full of savages raping one another and crushing skulls with rocks.
These are the same weak fools who gad about in suburbia and become offended when we kill bears, swans, coyotes, wolves, and other such disgraceful creatures that raise the cost of beef, honey, and the other staples of your larder.
Who carved out America — the simpering queers? The eternal offended? The eternal toddlers of our age?
I think not…
A little perspective goes a long way. Hand them the tools of the era of the Pioneers. March them across the vasty lands. Even with the tame Indians of our day I doubt they’d make it far.
They aren’t gonna stop until they start the next civil war…and I’m not talking about to Oregon Oregon State football game either! These fukin’ commie are going to push it to the limit and then they will go home with bloody panties! I don’t go to that urban shithole without being “Cocked and Locked”!
@Anonymous;
You’re absolutely right, because they have been trained to accept what they are offered from their overlords.
They have no idea how to forage on their own.
Fuck it. Give him a Bic lighter and an AR. He still won’t make it.
Some students and faculty–not all, as in a mandated vote required on the topic. However, they DO NOT have any authority to make changes, although trouble-makers can probably be tossed from the school. Oregon has become very commmie liberal, so it is possible the demands of the protesters may have an effect on those who can make changes. However, there are alumni who financially keep the UO running, but also who may not take kindly to having their alma mater’s tradition dismantled.
https://trustees.uoregon.edu/
The Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon is the university’s governing body.
The broad responsibilities of this 15-member group are to supervise, coordinate, manage, and regulate the UO, as provided by state statute. The trustees may exercise all powers, rights, duties, and privileges expressly granted by law or that are incidental to their responsibilities.
It was a violent land, took violent people to tame it.
Does this twit have a clue how many of those pioneers died paving the way for others?
Ignore Context at your own peril