I don't think there are many people proposing renaming all the Washington and Jefferson stuff. However, some people feel it accomplishes a great deal to remove e.g. "Silent Sam" from a university campus - particularly the African-American students on that campus. Why should they listen to someone telling them that they're wrong and they shouldn't have a problem with walking every day past a statue that celebrates their subjugation and was designed to reinforce it?
If earlier generations had the right to put up the monuments, why doesn't the current generation have the right to take them down? If earlier generations had the right to name things, why can't the current generation rename them?
Ted Clayton
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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
No, but I wouldn't want to rename every school and building and street and city and memorial named after Washington and Jefferson either because they held slaves, or do some other 1984ish thing in the name of political correctness.
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