{"id":2031,"date":"2017-02-14T20:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2017-02-14T20:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:48:23","slug":"geraldo-rivera-takes-bold-stand-control-political-correctness-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/geraldo-rivera-takes-bold-stand-control-political-correctness-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraldo Rivera takes a bold stand against out-of-control political correctness on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/461804172\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 67.508418% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/461804172?et=nmlQy0GsQBhC-HwEDqHceg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=E_b1LBUeGbv67QlAsp_9ZSu5cAmR5ExA5IHfCCShHHA=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Veteran TV personality Geraldo Rivera is hitting back at political correctness run amok on American college campuses.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He announced on Twitter that he resigned from his position at Yale University over the decision to name Calhoun College after someone with less \u201cracist\u201d baggage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Resigned yeterday as Associate Fellow of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CalhounCollege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#CalhounCollege<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yale?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Yale<\/a>. Been an honor but intolerant insistence on political correctness is lame.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraldoRivera\/status\/830819342531100674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Social justice advocates at Yale were successful in pressuring administration to rename the college after alumna Grace Murray Hopper, <a href=\"http:\/\/ijr.com\/2017\/02\/801130-geraldo-rivera-quits-position-at-yale-university-over-schools-politically-correct-name-change\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_campaign=morning-newsletter&amp;utm_medium=owned\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a\u00a0computer scientist and rear admiral in the Navy<\/a>,\u00a0and erasing Vice President John Calhous from memory because he supported slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Though he agreed\u00a0that slavery was indeed a terrible blight on the United States, Rivera wanted to know where Yale students would stop their endless campaigns to erase every vestige of the past:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Slavery was abhorrent sin.Will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yale?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Yale<\/a> students now petition to change name of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#USA<\/a> capital? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Washington?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Washington<\/a> was a slave holder as was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jefferson?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Jefferson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraldoRivera\/status\/831140022279618561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As of last year, Yale President Peter Salovey wasn\u2019t going to cave to the pressure citing his commitment \u201cto confronting, not erasing, our history.\u201d But 2017 is a new year and Salovey suddenly thinks it\u2019s a great idea and announced the change on February 11.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera brought out the big guns in a final tweet on the matter. That\u2019s how you know he\u2019s serious.\u00a0<strong>Click CONTINUE to read it:<\/strong><br>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To judge a 200 yr old early 19th century historic figure by standards of the 21st century as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yale?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Yale<\/a> is doing is more Orwellian than inspired<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraldoRivera\/status\/831141630455455744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Geraldo plays the Orwellian card, you know things are seriously wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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