Yale editing guns out of art.https://t.co/fZiEPClCvZ
— Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) August 10, 2017
Hey, remember when we thought ISIS was bad for blowing up statues? pic.twitter.com/luUxid6mrf
One of the bizarre post 9/11 touchstones came when the Taliban envoy was found to be studying at Yale.
Yale is taking flak for making a student out of an ex-Taliban spokesman. Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi once toured America defending the hideous regime that pulled out women’s fingernails for the “crime” of wearing nail polish. The Taliban also barred girls from school, banned women from working, stoned adulterers to death and used its soccer stadium for mass executions.
Richard Shaw, the Yale dean who decided that Rahmatullah was Yale material, bizarrely invoked the school’s historic rival to explain it, telling the Times that Yale’s admissions office once had “another foreigner of Rahmatullah’s caliber” apply for special-student status but “We lost him to Harvard. I didn’t want that to happen again.”
Meanwhile, as The Wall Street Journal revealed last week, Yale has declined to admit Afghan women who were Taliban victims: It snubbed a request from the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women (IEAW.org), which brings Afghan women to U.S. colleges.
Conroy, the Yale spokesman, declined to say why Rahmatullah – whose formal education ended in fourth grade – was somehow more qualified or deserving than those women.
He's an Islamist. They're at the top of the intersectional dog pile. Being the most oppressive makes you the most oppressed.
But it seems as if Taliban Man and Allah at Yale taught the school more than it taught him. As Yale is starting to go after statues. And for once we aren't talking about the Confederacy. As Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit notes.
If you were especially observant during your years on campus, you may have noticed a stone carving by the York Street entrance to Sterling Memorial Library that depict a hostile encounter: a Puritan pointing a musket at a Native American (top). When the library decided to reopen the long-disused entrance as the front door of the new Center for Teaching and Learning, says head librarian Susan Gibbons, she and the university’s Committee on Art in Public Spaces decided the carving’s “presence at a major entrance to Sterling was not appropriate.” The Puritan’s musket was covered over with a layer of stone (bottom) that Gibbons says can be removed in the future without damaging the original carving.
The issue in question isn't even the usual excuse that the Intersectional Taliban have been using to pull down statues. It's not racism. It's that guns are bad.
And so they've moved from pulling down statues for racism, to censoring them for projecting inappropriate virtues like gun ownership. What's next? Any smoking statues? Statues reading books by white male authors? Too many statues of white men? The possibilities are endless.
The Taliban are here.