https://archive.is/GFcXA
The University of Florida told Campus Reform that Russia's invasion of Ukraine influenced the school's decision to take down Karl Marx's name.
"Given current events in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, we determined it was appropriate to remove the name of Karl Marx that was placed on a group study room at the University of Florida in 2014," Hessy Fernandez, director of strategic communications, said.
HE WAS GERMAN YOU FUCKING RUSSOPHOBIC ASSHOLES OH MY GOD HOW CAN YOU BE A UNIVERSITY AND BE THIS STUPID AAAAAGGGHGGHHAGAGAH
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That angry monkey kinda looks like Putin. I bet they're related, probably has to do with Russians natural inclination towards primal violence - Average Liberal
I remember seeing that same image used for comparisons with Bush.
This place sounds like a real beacon of academic rigor.
:fidel-sarcastic: ah yes, well known russian, karl marx
He started the Bolshevik revolution but then Lenin killed him and took all the credit. Then Stalin killed Lenin.
Stalin then laid an egg and mao/gonzalo hatched from it. They renamed marxism "maoism" and taught pol pot how to kill people for having glasses
Censorship and book burning.
First they came for the socialists.
Interesting that they're using Russias invasion to ban communist literature despite modern Russia being capitalist.
Russia is Communist because Communism is Bad and Russia is Bad and A = A
UF is this stupid, but also I'm heartbroken to hear they were cool enough to have a marx room in the first place
I’m surprised they didn’t just simply murder the person who approved Marx’s name to be used in the first place
The fucking state of people's porridge brains. They're a fucking university for fuck's sake, so this is just deliberate ignorance. I swear to god the entirety of the American intellectual class basically polishes their brains smooth as a baby's bum every time the bloodthirsty shitheads running the show pick a new target.
Several Library West study rooms were named after historical figures including Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, and Mahatma Gandhi. It now appears that all rooms have been stripped of their names and are now only referenced by numbers.
So this was a set of 20ish study rooms that they decided would be easier to meet up at if they had names instead of numbers. They labeled them A-Z, and found important historical figures for each letter, and someone managed to get :marx-joker: approved as the 'M' entry. So this isn't just them canceling Marx for being Russian, this is them canceling most of the pop-culture THINKERs of history for being on a list with him.
This is a right wing source, so they could be making shit up, but I wouldn't be surprised by this.
It's probably for the best that they've switched to a numbered scheme, otherwise the likelihood of a Jordan Peterson Study Room is too high with the current politics of Floridian academia.
There was also a thing about Manchester removing a statue of Engels brought from Ukraine.
