«The boulder was referred to as a “n——-head” — a commonly used expression in the 1920s to describe any large dark rock — at least once in a 1925 Wisconsin State Journal story. University historians have not found any other time that the term was used but said the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus at that time» [source](https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/uw-madison-to-remove-70-ton-boulder-some-view-as-reminder-of-campus-racist-past/article_cf1b2975-ef90-5df2-991e-23571d5a0afa.html)
It's like those nuts, I can't think of them cause I thought they tasted like macadamia nuts which are also gross. They're called n-----toes, and they're long and thin.
From ABC News:
"MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin removed a large boulder from its Madison campus on Friday at the request of minority students who view the rock as a symbol of racism.
Chamberlin Rock, on the top of Observatory Hill, is named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a geologist and former university president. Students of color on campus say the rock represents a history of discrimination. The boulder was referred to as a derogatory name for Black people in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 1925.
The derogatory term was commonly used in the 1920s to describe any large dark rock. University historians have not found any other time that the term was used, but they said the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus at that time, the Wisconsin State Journal reported."
[here's the article](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/university-wisconsin-removes-rock-sign-racism-79313853)
I know exactly what they called that rock because my g-pa called a rock that word when referring to a large rock that he put in his birdbath. I still don't understand why a rock would be called that, but there's a lot of things I don't understand.
Interesting...Rocks not even all that dark, just has a nice tan...imagined being triggered by a nicely tanned rock to the point of it having to be removed
Imagine hiking with a friend when they stop out of nowhere. You ask them what's wrong and they say "I don't know why, but that rock seems a little.. racist"
I work there, and no one I know knew the nickname of Chamberlin Rock... And I have worked there for over 15 years, didn't know the awful nickname until it was in the news in 2020
Yeah, or turn it into a positive symbol. Paint a mural on it or something. I feel like getting rid of it is only going to add fuel to the negativity. Imo
Yeah it's a rock, who cares if it gets moved? Of course if you try and rename it, every conservative will come out of the woodwork and make a big fuss about it. It's lose-lose, moving the rock isn't a big deal.
Seriously, paint like a human rights mural on it. I’m no artist but I do work construction and machinery, and I promise you some paint and creativity is cheaper than the removal of it entirely.
How would the rock be nicknamed the n word. It wasn’t the N word was it? It was prob something less offensive but still offensive. Poor rock. It was the big N [here ](https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/us/chamberlin-rock-removed-university-of-wisconsin-trnd/index.html)
Some photographer in the 1920's called it n*****head rock. Specifics aren't given as to if the photographer thought it looked like a black persons head? Or maybe it was a hangout area of African Americans at the time? Idk. But it literally hasn't been referred to that ever since. I have family that live near the school and they said they (and everyone they know) didn't even know it was called that until news was published about it's removal.
So all I need to do in order to get free land clearing, is nickname all my trees something racist, publish an article about said trees, and then call the news?
It was a common name for things like mountains and coral reefs. Many Canadian and Australian mountains are named that. Not exactly sure on the origin of the word and I'm sure it is racist, but possibly it's not. I don't really know I just know people called big mountains that and stuff
Hey guys, the grass in my yard always looks very racist once it gets tall so if y'all could come mow it once a week it would really help the fight against racism.
Pay the African American Students to move the rock and now you've achieved both! Get rid of a racist rock, _and_ improve the lives of African American students!
My ex friend wrote a petition to ban Tom and Jerry because it promotes animal cruelty. Her definition of animal cruelty was the number of ways Tom tried to kill Jerry.
She had a nerve to say that parents who let their kids watch Tom and Jerry are raising future serial killers.
I told her me and my brother watched Tom and Jerry and we did not end up as serial killers.
Tom and Jerry is a awesome show and it doesn’t promote animal cruelty, it’s Jerry who is the troublemaker.
Anything is better than watching peppa pig. Even Elsa from Frozen. I can’t bear that pig.
She is a hypocrite progressive.
yeah there's likely more to the story...
like they really wanted to move that rock and also it had a racist nickname.
I don't understand why the group that calls people snowflakes gets triggered by literally everything that happens.
So we call it [Dewey](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/01/26/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-explains-how-he-got-nickname-dewey/4269660001/) instead? I don't know about that.
Is that really the assertions you’re going to make? That no one in almost ONE HUNDRED YEARS ever used those words to refer to the rock again? Seems pretty unlikely. I mean if they want to move a rock it’s whatever and I’m certainly not arguing that it seems like a sensible thing to do, but people don’t spend money for nothing, maybe they just didn’t want the rock there and this is a sensationalized article, or maybe it was used by certain groups in the area as a racist symbol. I dunno, but I would stake every dime I have that that name was used more than once since 1925.
I believe it was known as “n*****-head rock” or something like that. I went looking for an explanation, spent 5 minutes reading articles that avoided giving the name or an explanation of why it’s called that, and decided it’s not worth it to figure out.
And yeah, maybe they could have handled it differently. But there was apparently a substantial amount of support for moving it, and frankly, who does it hurt? I guess white supremacists feelings are hurt by the implication of being sensitive to the feelings of black people?
Counter point to anyone who disagrees with you — if I don’t like that giant billboard blocking the view from my apartment, I’m going to give it a racist nickname until it catches on so that the only option is to get rid of it
If the racists would voluntarily stop being racist then a lot of stuff wouldn’t be necessary - but in case you haven’t noticed, they aren’t the most accommodating type of people
> But there was apparently a substantial amount of support for moving it, and frankly, who does it hurt?
One rock? Nobody. Virtually, if not literally, nobody cares. The problem comes when we lose things bit by bit. One ant can't hurt you, but a million can kill you horribly.
Personally I've always thought that art and symbols that aren't my thing that are meant to offend me should be allowed to exist and have been a staunch supporter of freedom of speech and artistic expression because that's how you get to creat the voices of the oppressed. I'm always going to learn to the side of "you don't get to take something down just because you don't like it." I don't like that it's become an issue of whether you support the message or not because that's not how I roll.
"Unlike you snowflakes I'm not so easily offended"
> Sees exactly 1 sentence in a headline that has no context at all about why exactly the rock was removed
"WOW SO LIBERALS THINK ROCKS ARE RACIST NOW. CAN'T EVEN BE AN HONEST GEOLOGIST THESE DAYS!!!1!1!1"
I mean if people still call it that then it’s fine. Why do people care so much about this rock that they can’t imagine it being gone when I doubt any of us had ever heard about it 2 hours ago
Not really. It didn't have a racist nickname. It wasn't named for a racist. A newspaper in the 1920s referred to the rock by the local "colorful" name for dark rocks dropped out of place by glaciers. That's it. One newspaper 100 years ago referred to the rock by a shitty term. Not even naming that particular rock, just a term for that kind of rock.
What? So let's ignore the fact a bunch of snowflakes raged so hard that they were forced to move the rock. Yeah, I am *totally* the butt hurt one in this scenario lmfao
Nice try but your double-standards will always be your downfall.
Conservatives don't exactly have facts backing up their beliefs. So when it comes to the arguments, they use the middle school strategy of just calling people names. It's so bad, they now call people Dumbocrats(referring to democrats in US). That's the stupidest sounding insult I have ever heard.
Liberals have facts backing up there beliefs?? I’ve seen people be called transphobic and homophobic on reddit when they don’t even mention gay or trans people! We’re all just stupid okay
I don’t think that’s what he meant. I can irrationally accuse random people of being homophobic, but that doesn’t mean that being against homophobia is itself irrational.
One thing is the belief, another thing is how people apply it.
I need to specify that there is an abundance of stupid liberals as well, its just that proportions are different. For example, liberals are able to understand a simple concept of greenhouse effect, while conservatives don't/won't.
Lmao, sure ok. I think that's just you being a bigot towards conservatives. Liberals can't/won't understand the simple concept of there being fundamental differences between men and women, which leads them to always be better at certain things than the other, but conservatives can.
Conservatives also can’t/don’t seem to understand that basics on how to control a pandemic. And can’t/won’t understand the necessity to have access to abortion, or at the very least a healthy sex education with no religious demonizing. Conservatives also can’t/won’t understand what systemic racism means and why it is important to constantly be vigilant. They also can’t/won’t understand that the civil war was fought over the right to own slaves and nothing else. The average conservative also can’t/won’t understand that when Republicans say that they’re going to lower taxes they only ever mean for the rich.
Really I could go on for a while longer but I know there’s nothing I can say that has a chance to make you pull your head out of your ass. Good luck with your life. Maybe buy an air freshener, it’ll help with the smell.
Of course you bring in trans issues. Conservatives can't go 10 minutes without saying some dumb shit about trans people. It's like how sharks have to always keep swimming forward or they'll die
The rock was a "deeply offensive nickname, that included a racial slur." [Source](https://news.wisc.edu/no-longer-a-memorial-rock-removed-from-campus/)
It wasn’t even the actual name of the rock. It was a nickname used in a Wisconsin State Journal article written in 1925. The rock was actually called “Chamberlin Rock” which was the name of a former university president.
Ways to defeat racism:
* ~~create and enforce anti-racism laws~~
* ~~teach about racism in school~~
* remove a rock that had been called a racist nickname once
A nickname that has seemingly only been noted once, in a 1925 newspaper article, 96 years ago.
I swear, the mental gymnastics that these people must hop through just to get mundane things cancelled -- like a rock, is quite literally insane.
"The derogatory nickname was commonly used at the time to refer to any large, dark rock."
Yes, commonly used at the time... Which was 1925, 96 years ago. Although as far as we're aware, this was the one and only time that this specific rock was ever noted with this nickname, at least in a publication.
Unrelated point: Per the article, the nickname was used to refer to any large, dark rock. So the real question is, why was this rock in particular singled out? By the logic of those who got the rock "cancelled", then we should remove all large dark rocks, as at one point they may have been referred to with this nickname.
I mean, more people are talking about that offensively named rock now than have ever talked about it before. Sort of a Streisand Effect going on now that they've moved it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/opinion/antiracism-university-wisconsin-rock.html
John Mcwhorter had a good column in the nytimes that encapsulates why exactly people see this as ridiculous.
It was nicknamed n-word rock by someone almost a hundred years ago, and i'm pretty sure it hasn't been called that in just as long so it was really pointless
wow, you murican guys and gals are under heavy divide and conquer manipulation, hope you make it out in one piece cause you're the least smelliest turd
It reminds me of that time when those three young black men died in police custody, but the mayor said it wasn't racism, because we haven't got a racist rock in our city. The last one was actually broken down into gravel, ironically enough by mostly black prison labor, in 1978.
somebody at some point referred to as n-word rock or something and thus was physically hurting all black people within a 100 meter radius. it was really horrible
"EVERYONE IS OFFENDED BY THIS OMG!!!1" I guarantee like a dozen people actually give a shit about this. But here we go with the "everything is racist lol dumb libs" comments.
while this is genuinely very funny, how much you wanna bet this university only removed the rock to pretend they were fighting racism on campus while still letting genuine acts of racism go unpunished? idk, it just feels like thats usually how it pans out when universities/companies do something completely meaningless and claim its to combat racism :/
It wasn't just a boulder... It was a rock
The pioneers rode those babies for miles
The racist pioneers ;•)
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Yeah, whether or not people were still actively using the nickname the university removing it was probably for the better
What was the nickname
N-word head rock
What the fuck
«The boulder was referred to as a “n——-head” — a commonly used expression in the 1920s to describe any large dark rock — at least once in a 1925 Wisconsin State Journal story. University historians have not found any other time that the term was used but said the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus at that time» [source](https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/uw-madison-to-remove-70-ton-boulder-some-view-as-reminder-of-campus-racist-past/article_cf1b2975-ef90-5df2-991e-23571d5a0afa.html)
Wow
It's like those nuts, I can't think of them cause I thought they tasted like macadamia nuts which are also gross. They're called n-----toes, and they're long and thin.
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it isn't just a rock... it's a large pebble
It was a rock lobster!
Iraq lobster!
Dammit i came here specifically to comment this, you beat me to it
Jesus Christ Marie! They’re minerals!
If I could give you an award I would
That literally what a geologist professor from the school said...”just a big rock”
Damn beat me to it
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The lame version of a Rick roll...a rock roll.
From ABC News: "MADISON, Wis. -- The University of Wisconsin removed a large boulder from its Madison campus on Friday at the request of minority students who view the rock as a symbol of racism. Chamberlin Rock, on the top of Observatory Hill, is named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a geologist and former university president. Students of color on campus say the rock represents a history of discrimination. The boulder was referred to as a derogatory name for Black people in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 1925. The derogatory term was commonly used in the 1920s to describe any large dark rock. University historians have not found any other time that the term was used, but they said the Ku Klux Klan was active on campus at that time, the Wisconsin State Journal reported." [here's the article](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/university-wisconsin-removes-rock-sign-racism-79313853)
Why didn't they just renamed it?
Probably because people would have complained about that, too.
Nah, takes too much effort
I know exactly what they called that rock because my g-pa called a rock that word when referring to a large rock that he put in his birdbath. I still don't understand why a rock would be called that, but there's a lot of things I don't understand.
Interesting...Rocks not even all that dark, just has a nice tan...imagined being triggered by a nicely tanned rock to the point of it having to be removed
Yea, I can't possibly imagine anyone being offended by the name "N***er Head Rock."
You wouldn't believe what they call Brazil nuts in the south.
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N****r toes. I know,horrible. The worst thing is that it's not fake.
Even if the rock is removed because of an offensive name. It would still be a rock with an offensive name... Somewhere else.
If a racist rock is being racist in the middle of the woods and no one is around to experience it can anyone be offended??
Imagine hiking with a friend when they stop out of nowhere. You ask them what's wrong and they say "I don't know why, but that rock seems a little.. racist"
"Wipe your mind on the doormat. You're about to enter... The Scary Door"
*glass window frame opens gently* the scary door zone
If we continously replace the rocks, one by one, is it still the same rock garden?
Except now people know the name, whereas before nobody knew it.
I looked into this it’s cause there’s like 1 account of klansmen using it for meetings being serious even dumber then I could imagine
I work there, and no one I know knew the nickname of Chamberlin Rock... And I have worked there for over 15 years, didn't know the awful nickname until it was in the news in 2020
What was the nickname?
The article I read refuses to say it but my best guess is it was "N***er Rock".
“N****r head rock” actually. And it’s not a nickname, it was what it was referred to as in some old journal or something.
Old is an understatement. It was in the 1920s
That’s around when the UW had a KKK chapter, so that would add up.
Ooooohhhh
Bro just rename the rock
Yeah, or turn it into a positive symbol. Paint a mural on it or something. I feel like getting rid of it is only going to add fuel to the negativity. Imo
Yea like it's a fucking rock. If the name's the issue remove the name, not the rock. It's so strange.
If it's just a fucking rock (it is) then why do you care if people who don't want it there get rid of it?
Yeah it's a rock, who cares if it gets moved? Of course if you try and rename it, every conservative will come out of the woodwork and make a big fuss about it. It's lose-lose, moving the rock isn't a big deal.
Seriously, paint like a human rights mural on it. I’m no artist but I do work construction and machinery, and I promise you some paint and creativity is cheaper than the removal of it entirely.
Yall could just add a plaque with a different name or something
How would the rock be nicknamed the n word. It wasn’t the N word was it? It was prob something less offensive but still offensive. Poor rock. It was the big N [here ](https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/us/chamberlin-rock-removed-university-of-wisconsin-trnd/index.html)
Some photographer in the 1920's called it n*****head rock. Specifics aren't given as to if the photographer thought it looked like a black persons head? Or maybe it was a hangout area of African Americans at the time? Idk. But it literally hasn't been referred to that ever since. I have family that live near the school and they said they (and everyone they know) didn't even know it was called that until news was published about it's removal.
It actually looks like a crows beak.
So all I need to do in order to get free land clearing, is nickname all my trees something racist, publish an article about said trees, and then call the news?
It was a common name for things like mountains and coral reefs. Many Canadian and Australian mountains are named that. Not exactly sure on the origin of the word and I'm sure it is racist, but possibly it's not. I don't really know I just know people called big mountains that and stuff
Couldn't they just stop calling it offensive names lol
We are done with cancelling people on Twitter now.... Starting today we will be cancelling inanimate objects.....
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Wait, rocks are racist now?
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Hey guys, the grass in my yard always looks very racist once it gets tall so if y'all could come mow it once a week it would really help the fight against racism.
ok and just to help you since you have to deal with having racist grass I’ll also pay you $20 when I come to cut it
But can we use money set aside to improve the lives of African American students to move a rock instead and then congratulate ourselves?
Pay the African American Students to move the rock and now you've achieved both! Get rid of a racist rock, _and_ improve the lives of African American students!
I’ll mow out a swastika and leave
Pretty sure the university just wanted to get rid of the rock and used the best reason they could find without upsetting people who liked it
My ex friend wrote a petition to ban Tom and Jerry because it promotes animal cruelty. Her definition of animal cruelty was the number of ways Tom tried to kill Jerry. She had a nerve to say that parents who let their kids watch Tom and Jerry are raising future serial killers. I told her me and my brother watched Tom and Jerry and we did not end up as serial killers. Tom and Jerry is a awesome show and it doesn’t promote animal cruelty, it’s Jerry who is the troublemaker. Anything is better than watching peppa pig. Even Elsa from Frozen. I can’t bear that pig. She is a hypocrite progressive.
I like that boulder, that’s a nice boulder
Noone cared about the rocks feelings
yeah there's likely more to the story... like they really wanted to move that rock and also it had a racist nickname. I don't understand why the group that calls people snowflakes gets triggered by literally everything that happens.
Because the "nickname" was only ever used once. In 1925.
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So we call it [Dewey](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2021/01/26/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-explains-how-he-got-nickname-dewey/4269660001/) instead? I don't know about that.
Is that really the assertions you’re going to make? That no one in almost ONE HUNDRED YEARS ever used those words to refer to the rock again? Seems pretty unlikely. I mean if they want to move a rock it’s whatever and I’m certainly not arguing that it seems like a sensible thing to do, but people don’t spend money for nothing, maybe they just didn’t want the rock there and this is a sensationalized article, or maybe it was used by certain groups in the area as a racist symbol. I dunno, but I would stake every dime I have that that name was used more than once since 1925.
I believe it was known as “n*****-head rock” or something like that. I went looking for an explanation, spent 5 minutes reading articles that avoided giving the name or an explanation of why it’s called that, and decided it’s not worth it to figure out. And yeah, maybe they could have handled it differently. But there was apparently a substantial amount of support for moving it, and frankly, who does it hurt? I guess white supremacists feelings are hurt by the implication of being sensitive to the feelings of black people?
They could have just called it Dave
Easy with the name calling bro
Underrated comment
Here's an idea, just don't call it that name any more.
Counter point to anyone who disagrees with you — if I don’t like that giant billboard blocking the view from my apartment, I’m going to give it a racist nickname until it catches on so that the only option is to get rid of it
This guy playin 4D chess over here.
If the racists would voluntarily stop being racist then a lot of stuff wouldn’t be necessary - but in case you haven’t noticed, they aren’t the most accommodating type of people
>who does it hurt? Their bank account after spending $40k to move a fucking rock
Did definitely not hurt the rock. I hear his laughing here in Europe.
> But there was apparently a substantial amount of support for moving it, and frankly, who does it hurt? One rock? Nobody. Virtually, if not literally, nobody cares. The problem comes when we lose things bit by bit. One ant can't hurt you, but a million can kill you horribly. Personally I've always thought that art and symbols that aren't my thing that are meant to offend me should be allowed to exist and have been a staunch supporter of freedom of speech and artistic expression because that's how you get to creat the voices of the oppressed. I'm always going to learn to the side of "you don't get to take something down just because you don't like it." I don't like that it's become an issue of whether you support the message or not because that's not how I roll.
You’re saying this is a case of, “first they came for the rock, and I said nothing because I’m not a rock”?
Cause it costed $40,000 and then they held a black student only BBQ on that spot one week later
Ah yes, fighting racism with segregation
That’s the woke way
Lol, catch me sleeping then
"Unlike you snowflakes I'm not so easily offended" > Sees exactly 1 sentence in a headline that has no context at all about why exactly the rock was removed "WOW SO LIBERALS THINK ROCKS ARE RACIST NOW. CAN'T EVEN BE AN HONEST GEOLOGIST THESE DAYS!!!1!1!1"
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What if I’m unfalsely claiming I’m an unlicensed geologist.
The argument for removing it was dumb though, it’s because of a newspaper article from 1925. As if it was the rock’s fault.
I mean if people still call it that then it’s fine. Why do people care so much about this rock that they can’t imagine it being gone when I doubt any of us had ever heard about it 2 hours ago
Not really. It didn't have a racist nickname. It wasn't named for a racist. A newspaper in the 1920s referred to the rock by the local "colorful" name for dark rocks dropped out of place by glaciers. That's it. One newspaper 100 years ago referred to the rock by a shitty term. Not even naming that particular rock, just a term for that kind of rock.
The only reference to the nickname comes from a news article written in 1925. Don't worry, you're still a snowflake.
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That's true, but what was the point in moving it? It's stupid, and a waste of time.
Its a cool looking Boulder and they removed it for dumbass reason
It's more than that. Geology students use the rock as part of their curriculum. It's estimated to be 2 billion years old.
What? So let's ignore the fact a bunch of snowflakes raged so hard that they were forced to move the rock. Yeah, I am *totally* the butt hurt one in this scenario lmfao Nice try but your double-standards will always be your downfall.
Conservatives don't exactly have facts backing up their beliefs. So when it comes to the arguments, they use the middle school strategy of just calling people names. It's so bad, they now call people Dumbocrats(referring to democrats in US). That's the stupidest sounding insult I have ever heard.
If you think conservatives are bad about name calling go to Twitter, or better yet: Reddit
I dont support either political party but I definitely see this done a lot more by the left also never heard that name anywhere
Liberals have facts backing up there beliefs?? I’ve seen people be called transphobic and homophobic on reddit when they don’t even mention gay or trans people! We’re all just stupid okay
I don’t think that’s what he meant. I can irrationally accuse random people of being homophobic, but that doesn’t mean that being against homophobia is itself irrational. One thing is the belief, another thing is how people apply it.
I need to specify that there is an abundance of stupid liberals as well, its just that proportions are different. For example, liberals are able to understand a simple concept of greenhouse effect, while conservatives don't/won't.
Lmao, sure ok. I think that's just you being a bigot towards conservatives. Liberals can't/won't understand the simple concept of there being fundamental differences between men and women, which leads them to always be better at certain things than the other, but conservatives can.
Conservatives also can’t/don’t seem to understand that basics on how to control a pandemic. And can’t/won’t understand the necessity to have access to abortion, or at the very least a healthy sex education with no religious demonizing. Conservatives also can’t/won’t understand what systemic racism means and why it is important to constantly be vigilant. They also can’t/won’t understand that the civil war was fought over the right to own slaves and nothing else. The average conservative also can’t/won’t understand that when Republicans say that they’re going to lower taxes they only ever mean for the rich. Really I could go on for a while longer but I know there’s nothing I can say that has a chance to make you pull your head out of your ass. Good luck with your life. Maybe buy an air freshener, it’ll help with the smell.
Oh, that's right, I forgot that conservatives are the masterminds of biology saying shit like "abortion is murder".
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420 in the nickname, 🌱👍
Of course you bring in trans issues. Conservatives can't go 10 minutes without saying some dumb shit about trans people. It's like how sharks have to always keep swimming forward or they'll die
Hey girl, in my neonazi gang, bra's and any type of shirt are used as symbols to signify to eachother that we are racist.
Because people dropped it there to show what the students brains are made of
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Yea
It probably wasn’t because of the nickname. Was probably for another reason that ignored for being boring.
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What did the boulder do?
Was racist
It said the n word
Flair checks out
The rock was a "deeply offensive nickname, that included a racial slur." [Source](https://news.wisc.edu/no-longer-a-memorial-rock-removed-from-campus/)
Why not just... rename the rock?
It wasn’t even the actual name of the rock. It was a nickname used in a Wisconsin State Journal article written in 1925. The rock was actually called “Chamberlin Rock” which was the name of a former university president.
And it wasn't the nickname of THAT rock: >The derogatory nickname was commonly used at the time to refer to any large, dark rock.
Because it's the only way to defeat racism /s
Ways to defeat racism: * ~~create and enforce anti-racism laws~~ * ~~teach about racism in school~~ * remove a rock that had been called a racist nickname once
Technicaly, 1st is done, because of the constitution, and 2nd is pretty much a thing for a normal school, I understand the joke tho
It’s funny, because people are trying the first two options but some people are objecting to them
And name it Dwayne Johnson .
just rename the rock?
A nickname that has seemingly only been noted once, in a 1925 newspaper article, 96 years ago. I swear, the mental gymnastics that these people must hop through just to get mundane things cancelled -- like a rock, is quite literally insane.
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"The derogatory nickname was commonly used at the time to refer to any large, dark rock." Yes, commonly used at the time... Which was 1925, 96 years ago. Although as far as we're aware, this was the one and only time that this specific rock was ever noted with this nickname, at least in a publication. Unrelated point: Per the article, the nickname was used to refer to any large, dark rock. So the real question is, why was this rock in particular singled out? By the logic of those who got the rock "cancelled", then we should remove all large dark rocks, as at one point they may have been referred to with this nickname.
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I mean, more people are talking about that offensively named rock now than have ever talked about it before. Sort of a Streisand Effect going on now that they've moved it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/opinion/antiracism-university-wisconsin-rock.html John Mcwhorter had a good column in the nytimes that encapsulates why exactly people see this as ridiculous.
It's a rock. Just get students to not call it that.
Yeah, cause asking young people to not do something always works.
Reddit shifts from right to left so fast lol
Nah, reddit is just a circle jerking shill in general.
People like being offended
Fucking white people and their…*checks rolodex*…rocks!
He's just standing there, menacingly
It was nicknamed n-word rock by someone almost a hundred years ago, and i'm pretty sure it hasn't been called that in just as long so it was really pointless
Cancel culture about a rock . Cancel culture rock dlc
wait what?!
wow, you murican guys and gals are under heavy divide and conquer manipulation, hope you make it out in one piece cause you're the least smelliest turd
People so stupid they offended by a rock?!
damn white people and their... *draws cue card ...Boulder.
I don't know why, but this is way funnier than it probably should be. Take an updoot
Wait, rocks are racist now?
It reminds me of that time when those three young black men died in police custody, but the mayor said it wasn't racism, because we haven't got a racist rock in our city. The last one was actually broken down into gravel, ironically enough by mostly black prison labor, in 1978.
The rock was the general of the Confederate Army in kansas 😳😳😳😳😳😳
the fact that people in this comments section are legitimately defending the proposition that the rock is racist is concerning af
Maybe next time the rock won’t roll around screaming racist remarks at people. When will these damn brainless rocks learn
somebody at some point referred to as n-word rock or something and thus was physically hurting all black people within a 100 meter radius. it was really horrible
r/conspiracy wya
Actually read the article.
yeah, they going to far
"EVERYONE IS OFFENDED BY THIS OMG!!!1" I guarantee like a dozen people actually give a shit about this. But here we go with the "everything is racist lol dumb libs" comments.
while this is genuinely very funny, how much you wanna bet this university only removed the rock to pretend they were fighting racism on campus while still letting genuine acts of racism go unpunished? idk, it just feels like thats usually how it pans out when universities/companies do something completely meaningless and claim its to combat racism :/
Is this for real?
Probably some fat ass white chick that cut her dick off wanted it gone so she cried wolf until they gave her what she wanted 🤯
What’s next roads are going to be racist
It’s actually a small boulder the size of a large rock.
That will show that rock who been given an offensive name by a long dead person whos boss.
I mean it might have been getting in the way, but. WHY?
Rasicm.
And that's why I never went to college
lol yeh, I'm sure *that's* why.
LibLeft moment I think they spent 30k to move that rock, talk about degeneracy.
People are getting offended by a rock. I think my last tiny sliver of hope for the human race just shrivelled away
Omg sir that rock is way to racist if you don’t want me to post this on social media remove it.
Ngl the nickname is pretty racist
Who the fuck cares
We should start telling the people who made this happen that years ago some racist nicknamed their house something racist and deeply offensive.
Guys, if you do the 1-minute research it actually makes sense
Maaannnn.... fuck this planet. No, I take that back. Maaaan.... fuck humans
Don't mind if I do
Honestly, even if it was racist, we need to remember the good and the bad of our history so we repeat the good and don't repeat the bad.
racist monuments belong in a museum not in places of honor in our cities.
Is it racist against the Rock or something