Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Woodrow Wilson was a crap president but he shouldn't be canceled by Princeton. It's moronic to judge the past by today's standards. That's called presentism. It's wrong.

Wilson has been #Cancelled by Princeton, but his positive achievements are worth remembering as well. Much information here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson

He supported the 19th Amendment, which extended the franchise to women.

He helped negotiate a peaceful end to WWI. The Treaty of Versailles looked bad in retrospect, but Wilson helped make it less punitive against the Germans than it would have otherwise been.

He was a major force in establishing the League of Nations: ridiculed as ineffective, but only due to lack of meaningful participation. Wilson was very forward-thinking in his internationalism, and if more world leaders had followed it rather than warlike nationalist tendencies, we wouldn’t have had to suffer WWII.

But a terrible racist, as were most upper-class whites at the time, frankly. He actually *re*-segregated the Civil Service that had been integrated for decades. A big step backwards.

“A product of his time,” indeed. An excuse conservatives are quick to extend to any President without a (D) behind their name.

Lol! So only Democrats get a pass on racism because of their other accomplishments? Got it.

I didn’t give Wilson a pass on racism; quite the opposite. I specifically called him out for it.

No one gets a pass on racism in my book. I called out Biden for his “you ain’t black” remarks. As did most Democrats.

However, Trump’s been much worse for much longer including in his dreadful response to the George Floyd protests.

“When the looting starts, the shooting starts” and the above massively insensitive and tone-deaf quote are just the tip of the iceberg.

Want the whole iceberg?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/he-just-doesnt-get-it-has-trump-been-left-behind-by-americas-awakening-on-racism

There was a much worse race riot in 1919 (under Wilson). At least Trump condemned the mass orgy of violence and destruction and the Floyd death. Only a moral midget could not bring themselves to make a condemnation of both.