NYTimes: With Diversity Comes Intensity in Amherst Free Speech Debate. Wealthy alumni do not get that naming athletes after someone who promoted genocide is wrong.

NYTimes: With Diversity Comes Intensity in Amherst Free Speech Debate

"They wanted the college to stop calling its athletes the Lord Jeffs, after Lord Jeffery Amherst, the pre-Revolutionary War British commander who advocated germ warfare against Native Americans and for whom this college town was named. They wanted students who had posted “Free Speech” and “All Lives Matter” posters to go through “extensive training for racial and cultural competency” and possibly discipline. They wanted the administration to apologize for “our institutional legacy of white supremacy,” among many other forms of discrimination, like “heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma and classism.”