Woke dems rename Lee-Jackson Hwy in Fairfax County, Virginia

[Anonymous]

Confederate tears, always in the forecast since 1865!

[Anonymous]

1. Governments can do, and do do, many things concurrently. Unless you think they only do one thing at a time and that this is keeping them from doing anything else, "Don't they have anything better to do?" is a dumb question.

2. If we need to have things that are named after people in order to remember them, are you worried that we're going to forget who Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wayne Gacy or Adolph Hitler are because in this country we don't name anything after these people? Or would you propose that we start sending kids to Hitler High?

3. Can you tell the very simple difference between "remembering" and "honoring"? Most of us can, so please don't insult us by offering an argument that supposes that we can't. We name things for people to honor them. We shouldn't name things after people who don't deserve our honor. It has nothing to do with whether we REMEMBER them or not--that should come from education, from reading and documentaries, from museums. I REMEMBER people who have treated me badly in my life. I'm not going to name my children after them.

4. Apparently "woke" means "Believing we shouldn't honor traitors and those who fought to preserve the right to enslave other people." Your use of it as a derogatory word implies that you believe we SHOULD honor traitors and people who fought to preserve the right to enslave others. Is that what you believe? If not, are YOU "woke"? Be sure you understand the implications of using a label before you use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do they have nothing better to do than to rename every single street and school, most of which residents don’t care enough about? So sad that northern virginia’s rich confederate history (Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, Arlington Cemetery, etc.) history has attempted to be erased, as evident in changes to Lee Hwy, Jackson Lee Hwy, Jefferson Davis Hwy, many of Fairfax City and Alexandria City’s streets, Robert E Lee HS, JEB Stuart HS, Fairfax HS Rebels, Loudoun County Raiders in LoCo, and PWC’s Stonewall Jackson HS, just to name a few.

Deciding not to honor traitors is not the same as "erasing history." I am certain Northern Virginia schools are still studying the history of the Civil War and familiarizing themselves with what men like Robert E. Lee, Jeb Stuart, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson did — including the fact that they were fighting to continue the right to own people as property.

+1000!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's rename everything after Union politicans, generals, soldiers. You know, the WINNERS instread of the LOSERS. That way you can "chuckle" about how quaint the Civil War is, think about history as you drive, and also not glorify racist traitors. Win/win/win right?

Well Virginia is a southern state, so don’t you think the people who fought for virginia would be the ‘losers’? Not many ‘winners’ from Virginia to name them after.

Around 27,000 Virginians fought in the Union Army. 40 percent of Virginia's officers in the military stayed loyal during the Civil War.
Notable Virginians who fought for the United States included Winfield Scott, David Farragut, George Thomas, William Rufus Terrill, and Rene De Russy. Martin Delany served as the US Army's first black field officer. Robert E. Lee's own cousin fought in the Union Navy. J.E.B. Stuart's father in law commanded Union cavalry.

Other Virginians worked for the Union as spies, such as Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Richards Bowser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's rename everything after Union politicans, generals, soldiers. You know, the WINNERS instread of the LOSERS. That way you can "chuckle" about how quaint the Civil War is, think about history as you drive, and also not glorify racist traitors. Win/win/win right?

Well Virginia is a southern state, so don’t you think the people who fought for virginia would be the ‘losers’? Not many ‘winners’ from Virginia to name them after.

Around 27,000 Virginians fought in the Union Army. 40 percent of Virginia's officers in the military stayed loyal during the Civil War.
Notable Virginians who fought for the United States included Winfield Scott, David Farragut, George Thomas, William Rufus Terrill, and Rene De Russy. Martin Delany served as the US Army's first black field officer. Robert E. Lee's own cousin fought in the Union Navy. J.E.B. Stuart's father in law commanded Union cavalry.

Other Virginians worked for the Union as spies, such as Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Richards Bowser.

Too bad VA didn’t erect statues of heroes instead of traitors.

[Anonymous]

Union! We won

[Anonymous]

Nothing says American proletariat quite as much as honoring the confederacy.

[Anonymous]

To me Harry Byrd Hwy is even more egregious. His role in history is well past the Civil War.