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A New Jersey school district is planning to rename one of its schools named after former President Woodrow Wilson due to what critics say is a legacy of racism.
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Woodrow Wilson, a Virginia-born Democrat, served as New Jersey’s governor from 1911 to 1913 and as US president from 1913 to 1921.

His legacy has been challenged by activists and academics in recent years due to his support of racist policies.

In June 2020, the board of trustees at Princeton University, Wilson’s alma mater, voted to drop his name from his namesake School of Public and International Affairs.

“Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time. He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice,” university President Christopher L. Eisgruber wrote in a statement on the board’s decision. “He not only acquiesced in but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to do harm today.”

Also last June, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he would no longer use Wilson’s desk at his office in Trenton.

“The country is having a reckoning and Woodrow Wilson, and his legacy is being swept up in that, as it should be,” Murphy said at a press conference at the time.

More about Wilson:

Wilson was an apologist for slavery and the southern redemption movement; he was also one of the nation's foremost promoters of the lost cause mythology.[11] At Princeton, Wilson used his authority to actively discourage the admission of African-Americans.[1]
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Wilson specifically criticized efforts to protect voting rights for African-Americans and rulings by federal judges against state courts that refused to empanel black jurors. According to Wilson, congressional leaders had acted out of idealism, displaying "blatant disregard of the child-like state of the Negro and natural order of life", thus endangering American democracy as a whole.[13]

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/western-democracy/msg9997/#msg9997

In contrast:

President of Princeton
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Wilson appointed the first Jew and the first Roman Catholic to the faculty
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In 1909, Wilson received a letter from a young African-American man interested in applying to attend Princeton; Wilson had his assistant write back promptly that "it is altogether inadvisable for a colored man to enter Princeton."[23] Wilson eventually came to include in his justification for refusing to admit African-American students that Princeton had never done so in the past, though he knew such claims to be false. By the end of his time as president at Princeton, Wilson had taken steps to erase from the public record that African-Americans had ever attended or instructed at Princeton, though neither was true.[24] Princeton college would not admit a single black student until 1947,[25] becoming the last Ivy League institution to racially integrate.[26][27]
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Exclusion of African-Americans from administration appointments

By the 1910s, African-Americans had become effectively shut out of elected office. Obtaining an executive appointment to a position within the federal bureaucracy was usually the only option for African-American statesmen.[44] As Wilson named white supremacists to the highest levels of his administration, African-Americans were appointments in record low numbers. While it has been claimed Wilson continued to appoint African-Americans to positions that had traditionally been filled by blacks, overcoming opposition from many southern senators,[45] such claims deflect most of the truth however. Since the end of Reconstruction, both parties recognized certain appointments as unofficially reserved for qualified African-Americans. Wilson appointed a total of nine African-Americans to prominent positions in the federal bureaucracy, eight of whom were Republican carry-overs. For comparison, Taft was met with disdain and outrage from Republicans of both races for appointing "a mere thirty-one black officeholders", a record low for a Republican president. Upon taking office, Wilson fired all but two of the seventeen black supervisors in the federal bureaucracy appointed by Taft.[46][47]
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Not only were African-Americans almost completely excluded from higher level appointments, the Wilson cabinet was dominated by southerners, many of whom were unapologetic white supremacists.[61]
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Veto of the racial equality proposal

Japan had fought on the side of the allies during WWI and was the only non-white nation of the five major powers (the others being the Great Britain, France, the United States and Italy). The first draft of the Racial Equality Amendment was presented to the Commission on February 13, 1919 and stated:

The equality of nations being a basic principle of the League of Nations, the High Contracting Parties agree to accord as soon as possible to all alien nationals of states, members of the League, equal and just treatment in every respect making no distinction, either in law or in fact, on account of their race or nationality.
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For Wilson, even if it was inline with what his country claimed to stand for, it was repugnant to his personal belief in white racial superiority, an ideology that had guided policy in his administration since he took office.[100][101]
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Wilson exercised his power as Chairman and overturned the vote unilaterally. Wilson proceeded to explain that this specific amendment was so divisive and extreme it must have unanimous support in order to pass.[102]

Wilson's decision garnered praise from the governments of South Africa, Australia and Great Britain 

Thus Japan turned to Hitler.

Another point of contrast:

Though Wilson aggressively championed the cause of self-determination for many stateless peoples of Eastern Europe, his sympathy did not extend to the "backward countries" of Asia and Africa
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Wilson did insist that Poland and other eastern European countries (whose borders were carved out of the defeated empires of the Central Powers following the outcome of the war) ratify binding treaties, obligating them to protect the rights of minorities, mainly Jews, within their own borders.[122]

Thus we see that Wilsonism is the exact opposite of Hitlerism.

he consistently expressed the belief that all members of the white race could and should be integrated into American society as equals regardless of heritage.[119] This was a recognition that Wilson never extended black Americans.[6]: 103
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Further dispelling claims he harbored anti-Semitic prejudices, Wilson appointed the first Jewish-American to the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis.[123]

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