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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the same reason Germany and Italy don’t have Hitler Boulevard or Mussolini Drive.[/quote]

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This is everything.   End of thread right there.[/quote]

I want to push back a bit and say there's actually more. The premise of the OP is that these names were once OK but no longer are. These names were never OK. This is not like the town of East Hamburg, NY, deciding to rename itself "Orchard Park" during WWI. Or french fries becoming "Freedom Fries" during the first Gulf War. There was never a time when Robert E. Lee was not a polarizing figure and a symbol of hate and racism.[/quote]

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Ah, but there is the fact that Germany had the Nurenberg trials. What does U.S. do but welcome the traitors back into Congress.[/quote]

There is a difference between wanting to exterminate people and treating them as property. Both dehumanizing and neither worthy of commemoration, but also not the same. [/quote]

I’m not sure what you see as being a crucial difference — but you might pause and ask yourself why forced labor on the way to exterminating people and exterminating people in the process of using them as forced labor feels like an important distinction for you to make.

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Because slavery, while inhumane and despicable, was not the same as murder.  [/quote]

But weren't slaves raped and murdered? Also, the boat trip from Africa to North and South America wasn't a cruise ship. There were lots of deaths at sea. [/quote]

Scholars believe that up to 2,000,000 deaths were attributable to the Middle Passage voyage alone. Slavery was institutionalized form of capitalist genocide. You couldn’t be held accountable for murdering “property.” Characterizing kidnapping and shackling human beings to a vessel for weeks with de minimis food and water and not even the most rudimentary medical care as a “boat trip” seems odd. [/quote]

Ehh, it was 200 years ago. Who cares, really? I mean are you going to go on a crusade to right all the wrongs Ghengis Khan committed? Why not?[/quote]

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