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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lydia and Audrey are both lovely.

Scarlett is very associated with a book and a movie that romanticized slavery.  I wouldn't be able to get past of it, and would be cautious about letting my kid socialize with someone who thought it was an acceptable name.  If I got to know you and found out you were just clueless and tone deaf, maybe I'd get past that.

Choose Lydia or Audrey.  [/quote]

You can’t think of any other reason besides an old movie connection that someone might pick Scarlett? [/quote]

Absolutely I think a parent could pick it for another reason.  But the fact that for whatever reason they chose to overlook the racist association that is well known, is concerning.  [/quote]

DP. The reason this is insane is that while YOUR biggest association with the name Scarlett is Gone with the Wind, you are assuming that is also THEIR biggest association with it. Most people I know have never even read that book or seen that movie. My first association is the board game clue, or just the color red. It would not occur to me that someone had named their kid after a character from a book/movie that came out before any of us were born.

In the name of anti-racism you are making wild assumptions based on your own biases, which seems... wrong? Also that it would lead you to try and keep your child from associating with another child? I'm all for fighting racism but I think you are just creating other problems and not actually solving anything.[/quote]

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