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Comment on In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools

wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is a tough one for me. To me what’s important is when they were named. In the 1960’s it was common to name things after confederate generals due to the civil rights movement. The democrats wanted to name everything after confederates.

Things or statues from the late 1800 to early 1900 I have less of an issue with. Those were to honor the past and supported by all.

The intent is what’s important to me.

As a veteran of the Army, I disliked that many of bases were named after shitty generals.

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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

To me what’s important is when they were named.

In this case it’s May 2024. Mountain View High School had its name changed to Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary was changed to Ashby Lee Elementary in May of 2024.

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- wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s just people protecting the recent changes. I suspect these were names in the 1960’s. That’s the common theme. As such I have no issue with them being renamed.
  
  That said I don’t live there and people have a right to govern themselves. I think this is just an anti “woke” thing but unless the school was honoring the confederate, which they rarely are, they shouldn’t have been named in the first place.
  
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Scirocco@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As an army veteran, I have always found the naming of military facilities for shitty racist losers to be blatant pandering and a poor consolation prize to the wounded sensibilities of ‘the lost cause’ etc

There was nothing noble about any of that shit, it was 100% about slavery and to be fair, more or less the entire country had been implicitly or explicitly involved in the practice from colonial times.

So perhaps the consolation prizes and TYFYS-ism of it all was warranted for a period. But that period is well over by now.

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