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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are we renaming George mason?  [/quote]
He owned over 100 slaves.  Unlike some of the other Founders, he did not free them and make provisions for them in his will.[/quote]

Can we learn from the past rather than try to change the past? This is stupid.[/quote]

This is the most absurd argument ever.  Changing a school name so that it doesn't honor a slaveholder is not changing the past! It's learning from the past and changing out actions now and we realize, oh, that's really not cool to honor that person this way!! I can't understand people who think changing the name of a random high school suddenly erases that person from history![/quote]

The high school isn't named to honor a slaveholder.  How clueless are you?

No wonder we can't have discussions anymore when people spout nonsense like that.  [/quote]

Then please clue me in on why the school is named George Mason.[/quote]

It honors all the other things he did. Duh. [/quote]

Oh right! I forgot about the asterisk after the school name that indicated that they named they were honoring just the things George Mason did for the government and not the part where he owned people! [/quote]

There's no asterisk.  This is normal stuff understood by (most) everyone.[/quote]

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