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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are three high schools in this somewhat strange county.  I hereby proposing naming them High Schools  1, 2, and 3.  Wakefield will be 1.[/quote]Why? The school has been named after those two horrible white supremacists for for almost 100 years.  Now they want to name it after people with A background which is more progressive for all and people are making all these excuses to prevent that from happening.
I never knew there were so many supporters of white supremacy in Arlington until now.  [/quote]

George Washington is horrible?  GTFOH. [/quote]
GTFOH? He was beyond horrible.  That white supremacist POS used and abused 316 slaves.  [b]He is not what we consider progressive in today’s world.[/b][/quote]

I'm going to ignore your comments about George Washington and focus on the highlighted portion of your comment.

If you want to name schools based on people or even concepts that are considered "progressive in today's world," then we will be changing school names constantly because what is considered progressive is constantly evolving and changing.  And as previous posters have said, who knows what we may learn 20, 30, 50 years from now about some objectionable conduct that one of the Lovings may have participated in, because no one is perfect.

I think the committee's second preferred name, Washington-Liberty, is a better choice for now and 20, 30, 50 years from now - and, one could argue, easily represents what the Lovings fought for.  It may not be what I'd come up with on my own but these are the two names the SB will focus on.[/quote]

Very true.   That is obviously the better choice, and would be the preferred option but for the fact that the renaming committee likely is an echo chamber where the members compete with each other for “most woke” and, in the process, set aside their common sense.[/quote]The right thing to do is to remove the name of both white supremacists the school is currently named after.  
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Feel free to move to China where there are no white supremacists but they get to decide what is progressive without your input and put you in jail if you disagree. The guy led the war to allow this free nation, was a visionary who helped develop its laws, and then ran it as a startup till it got its feet off the ground and became profitable. If that isn't progressive enough, than I don't know what is. How can someone can say some current progressive hanging onto the coattails of whatever new protest of the day, has a better resume and is more progressive than George Washington is? A very immature perspective IMO.[/quote]

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