At least 300 students have been prohibited from registering for classes at Northwestern University because they refused to watch a controversial antisemitism training video that they said was biased in favor of Israel, contained factual inaccuracies and could inflame campus tension over Gaza.

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        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.

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          • 1803 Louisiana Purchase
          • 1809 Illinois Territory
          • 1819 49th parallel agreement
          • 1846 Oregon Treaty
          • 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
          • 1848 Oregon Territory
          • 1851 Northwestern university founding

          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.

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        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).

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            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

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              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.

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      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.