Removing and Renaming Confederate Statues, Schools, Streets, etc: Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin has just appointed a monument defender to the historic resource board! What a great win for this great state, god bless Governor Youngkin. Please run for senate or President, you will have Virginia’s vote!

Not this Virginians vote!

If he runs, I think he'll get crushed. He is not interesting enough to stir up the support of Trumpers who crave chaos, but his policies are enough like Trump's that Dems will have no trouble pointing to them to drive their own voter turnout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin has just appointed a monument defender to the historic resource board! What a great win for this great state, god bless Governor Youngkin. Please run for senate or President, you will have Virginia’s vote!

Not this Virginians vote!

If he runs, I think he'll get crushed. He is not interesting enough to stir up the support of Trumpers who crave chaos, but his policies are enough like Trump's that Dems will have no trouble pointing to them to drive their own voter turnout.

They already drove their turnout, the election was historically high and no governors election came close. The turnout was higher than some senate elections, and up 7 from 2017. If the turnout was similar to governors elections prior, Youngkin would have won by 8.

Also I think you are marginally wrong, his approval rating has gone UP a in the past months and has only been increasing, with only 6 months of experience. Virginians initially felt uncomfortable after 8 years of liberal policies, but they are starting to adapt and getting used to him. Also, Trump has been losing significant popularity over the past year, and names like Ron Desantis and Youngkin are becoming more prevalent. I think if he runs for senate or other offices immediately after governor, he will likely win due to his name recognition and by a larger margin than in 2021.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin has just appointed a monument defender to the historic resource board! What a great win for this great state, god bless Governor Youngkin. Please run for senate or President, you will have Virginia’s vote!

Not this Virginians vote!

If he runs, I think he'll get crushed. He is not interesting enough to stir up the support of Trumpers who crave chaos, but his policies are enough like Trump's that Dems will have no trouble pointing to them to drive their own voter turnout.

Yeah. The fleece was a one-trick pony.

He’s going to go down with other Rs in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We only discuss and then sometimes act on the changing of names/removal of statues of slaveholders because this country has so much foundational text on liberty and equality.

You’d get nowhere trying to tear down the founders (in reputation, statuary and memoriam) in a great many other places for holding slaves, oppressing the population, sexism etc.

It’s so ironic that so many Americans can’t appreciate that.

And want to “dismantle” and “disrupt”

[Anonymous]

So like DC to rename Woodrow Wilson HS after a couple of DCPS bureaucrats!

[Anonymous]

I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite it.

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center.

[Anonymous]

Check a history book. The Trump Charlottesville rioters were counter-protesting an effort to remove one of these monuments. That was in 2017. So no, this was not sparked by George Floyd’s murder.

[Anonymous]

I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names.

What if it was a President who was also a Confederate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite it.

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center.

MLK was a great historical figure, but “womanizer” is putting it mildly. The Guardian or another publication presented credible evidence that MLK was present when some clergy friend raped a woman, yet did nothing to stop it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite it.

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center.

MLK was a great historical figure, but “womanizer” is putting it mildly. The Guardian or another publication presented credible evidence that MLK was present when some clergy friend raped a woman, yet did nothing to stop it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/martin-luther-king-rape-fbi-tapes-video-mlk-laugh-files-a8932206.html?amp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite it.

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center.

Because sleeping around is the same as owning other people...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center.

My understanding is they came close to renaming Stuart High after a local Hispanic man who was a WWII hero but some School Board members were worried that would offend the NAACP so they vetoed it. “Justice High” does sound like a school for kids in juvenile detention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite it.

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center.

Because sleeping around is the same as owning other people...

Uh, seems like it wasn’t just “sleeping around.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center.

My understanding is they came close to renaming Stuart High after a local Hispanic man who was a WWII hero but some School Board members were worried that would offend the NAACP so they vetoed it. “Justice High” does sound like a school for kids in juvenile detention.

When will the US get beyond its fixation on racial identity groups? The NAACP would be offended by renaming the school after an Hispanic war hero?!! That’s nuts. The Republican right is increasingly fascist while the Democratic Left is overly focused on the politics of identity and intersectionality. Why not choose the name of a trans POC? That would surely trump naming the school after a war hero!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with confederate names going away. I do have an issue with them writing over presidents names. Who are we going to cancel next? MLK was a womanizer and he gets a whole holiday. I think we should understand the past not rewrite it.

And Justice high school sounds like a juvenile detention center.

Some DC pols seriously proposed renaming a high school “Marion Barry High” until folks pointed out that this was the fictitious mocking name of the school in 90s Jon Lovitz comedy.