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Dec 31, 2020
It has been the worst American year since at least 1968, or 1862, or, arguably, ever. It has, however, provided episodes that will amaze and perhaps amuse a calmer future America.
There has been feverish statue-toppling: Up with “social justice,” so down with Ulysses S. Grant, pulverizer of the slavocracy. School names from the past are scrubbed away in order to signal the superior virtue of the scrubbers: San Francisco’s School Names Advisory Committee – really – objects to Abraham Lincoln High School because he sinned against various 2020 sensibilities. And 2020 concludes with medicine and political mania entangled on a campus.
Cornell University says vaccinations against seasonal flu are mandatory, but more for some than for others. Because of “systemic racism” and “health inequities,” members of “some marginalized communities” are exempt. “Historically,” Cornell says, “the bodies of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC)
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