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Boston University president Robert Brown announced to students Wednesday that he is forming a committee to address the issue of Rhett the Terrier, framing the action as a response to concerns that keeping the mascot’s name honors a character connected to the Confederacy and slavery, as well as sexual assault.
The BU alumnus pushing for the change, one Arcangelo Cella, is of Italian extraction but, presumably because he is also gay, has a special ability to sense racism in others, and the President (oh, for the days of John Silber) also demand that the school color, scarlet be eliminated because it could be considered a reference to a character in the same movie — I kid you not.
This all started, you may recall, with the demand that statues of Confederate generals be torn down, on the ground they betrayed their country in order to preserve slavery. In a few short weeks anyone the mob deems to have existed before 2020 became a target, from U.S. presidents to Union soldiers to abolitionist-pacifist Walt Whitman, to Anne Elk, the Little Mermaid, and now a harmless pooch. The only exception to this cancel project are slaveowners who combined slave ownership with slave trading and – very important å– had prestigious liberal universities named after them. Go figure.
