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Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training
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Illinois, in case you were wondering.
You'd think northwestern would be in the northwest, but no. Shows the calibre of education they provide.
I know this is sarcastic, and I love it and I'm sorry the pedantic part of my brain must inform someone that when the school was founded, Illinois was the Northwest part of the United States.
The full extent of the contiguous united states was established before the founding of northwestern university. Illinois territory wasn't organized until after the louisiana purchase.
IIRC, it was sorta the NW for states admitted to the Union in 1851.
I didn't name it, I just also wondered this and Googled it in like 2010.
I guess the term “Midwest” was well established by then. Maybe anything further West was called “The Territories” or something?
The naming of the university was very likely just following accepted naming conventions.
If anything this shows the expansionist nature of the US. And an unwillingness to overhaul conventions (and there’s a lot to unpack there).
The United States is the inheritor of all of Rome's evils. They are the same culture, the same empire.
GTFO with your proselytizing. Nobody is interested.
(yeah, I looked at your posting history)
edit: I agree with your stance on Paul though. But admitting even that much, people like you just keep coming back. No. Don't even reply.
edit2: yep, just as I thought
I'd just like to take a moment to say that Hell doesn't exist, and that nothing bad will happen to nonbelievers in Jesus Christ in the afterlife. When people who don't believe in Jesus die, they go to whatever afterlife they do believe in, and if they don't believe in any afterlife, they simply cease to exist. There's no penalty for not following Jesus, it's completely optional. Roman priests invented Hell to appeal to people who were used to the idea of the Greek underworld afterlife, there's no basis for it in Jesus' teachings.
Only the east coast matters.
Yeah, it's still a corrupt quagmire here. It's better than it used to be, but that's like saying you've managed to remove two tons of shit from a 20 ton heap.