http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/dec/18/oxford-university-students-cecli-rhodes
There was this statement.
**Oriel said the college “does not share Cecil Rhodes’s values or condone his racist views or actions”**
Well I do believe that most of the planet does not share Cecil Rhodes's values or condone his actions, not just Oriel.
IMO we should not air brush history, especially the unpleasant parts, in fact they ought to remain as a reminder of how damned rotten things once were, pricking us into making sure we never do that again.
Infact are these students so incensed that they would stop studying in a place I think he helped to fund in the first place?
I doubt it.
They have every right to consider this man for what he was, but to me their actions reek of something a bot cowardly and a little bit two faced.
Would students these days rather be pampered, cosseted, protected?
Isn't fierce debate the very thing you sign up for?
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