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Xipe Totec

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1. If Cecil Rhodes was the last racist left standing, this would be a sound policy.

Reply to Hoppy (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 07:07 PM

Nov 2015

But when an entire nation of 330 million people was raised on the backs of slave labor, how can one follow a life path purely devoid of the fruits of slave labor?

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Students: Fight Racsim! Decline Your Rhodes Scholarships! [View all] Hoppy Nov 2015 OP

If Cecil Rhodes was the last racist left standing, this would be a sound policy. Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #1

Zimbabwe's colonial name, Rhodesia, hearkens back to Rhodes as well. KamaAina Nov 2015 #2

Racsim sucks! KamaAina Nov 2015 #3

Anyone who would decline a Rhodes hifiguy Nov 2015 #4

Is this supposed to be a veiled jab at Bill Clinton, Susan Rice and Rachel Maddow et al? lpbk2713 Nov 2015 #5

Kris Kritstofferson, too. ryan_cats Nov 2015 #14

Yeah and stop eating sharp_stick Nov 2015 #6

Changing the name would be a good idea mwrguy Nov 2015 #7

Except that they were funded by him NT 1939 Nov 2015 #9

So? mwrguy Nov 2015 #10

So 1939 Nov 2015 #18

Anyone dumb enough to refuse one, is too dumb to qualify for one anywhoo. NightWatcher Nov 2015 #8

+1 True. nt FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #25

Apartheid came into being many decades after Rhodes died DavidDvorkin Nov 2015 #11

The speed with which apartheid imploded tends to be overlooked too Sen. Walter Sobchak Nov 2015 #13

My belief/strong hunch DavidDvorkin Nov 2015 #16

Doesn't take a Rhodes scholar... Heeeeers Johnny Nov 2015 #12

I wondered when someone would go there. cwydro Nov 2015 #15

Won the scholarship, studied at Oxford, failed to earn a degree. n/t cherokeeprogressive Nov 2015 #17

I didn't know he never earned a degree! cwydro Nov 2015 #20

Not from Oxford anyway. cherokeeprogressive Nov 2015 #21

Guess so. cwydro Nov 2015 #22

That's like refusing to use all the libraries Carnegie built. Adrahil Nov 2015 #19

Bobby Jindal is a Rhodes Scholar, which Cyrano Nov 2015 #23

Don't forget to reject a Fulbright scholarship, too. Seeking Serenity Nov 2015 #24

Yeah, that's not going to happen. RandySF Nov 2015 #26

I got a Byrd Scholarship. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Nov 2015 #27

That is as stupid as the Woodrow Wilson protests, ps Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar Todays_Illusion Nov 2015 #28

Is this sarcasm? mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2015 #29

Bingo ! Yes, sarcasm. Hoppy Nov 2015 #31

Thanks. It has reached the point that I can't tell real demands and sarcasm apart. mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2015 #33

Putting the sarcasm emit in, takes the fun from it. Hoppy Nov 2015 #34

Take the scholarship & graduate with honors. JonathanRackham Nov 2015 #30

Let's also reject Euclidian Maths and the Pythagoras theorem Yorktown Nov 2015 #32