University of Washington student senator Jill Edwards, who in the minutes of the Pappy Boyington monument vote questioned if a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the type of person the UW would want to produce, said she was misunderstood and was really just pushing for the erecting of a monument either to the blandly mediocre or to the abysmal failures:
"Obviously he is a great man, and I'm very proud he's an alumnus," she said. "I don't want to feel like we're trying to impose an ideal of achievement on the UW."
In her own proud achievement, in a Live Journal entry Jill mulls the rightness or wrongness of her having stolen a hotel bath mat, and decides morality is subjective.
Of course it is, Jill. If your morality says there's nothing so cheap and petty that it wouldn't be beneath you to steal it, then who are we to say you're wrong?
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Appalling Ignorance at UW
so I guess it would be better to impose an ideal of
failure..???
k..then how about a statue of Howard Dean on a Donkey- in scrubs, and have the donkey 'float' on
a plexiglas stand so it looks like he almost died
in a battle with laryngitis...
No surprises.
Since the 80's, kids have been brought up on re-written history. 'Amerikkka is bad. Columbus sailed west to kill indians.'
It takes a kid who's truly interested in learning to overcome the indoctrination that's called public education.
I really liked the comment the other dipshit said, about 'too many monuments already to rich white men.'
Just about sums it up.