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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where is the line?

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were slave owners.

Bull run was a battle won by the confederates

The references are everywhere in this area[/quote]

While I am 100% fine with changing those names, the changes under discussion right now involve traitors to the U.S. it's a pretty low bar, let's clear it first and then see what else we want to change.

I'm a Mosby Woods parent and was very pleased to see the message about changing the name.[/quote]

This is a weak definition of a traitor IMO.  For example, Lee didn't want VA to secede but when it did, he felt he had no choice but to follow his home state: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lee-resigns-from-u-s-army
If I am not mistaken, that's roughly what we still want from our military today - to follow orders.

Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States army two days after he was offered command of the Union army and three days after his native state, Virginia, seceded from the Union.
Lee opposed secession, but he was a loyal son of Virginia. His official resignation was only one sentence, but he wrote a longer explanation to his friend and mentor, General Winfield Scott, later that day.
“Save in the defense of my native State, I never desire again to draw my sword.”

I don't care if we rename things named after him - and we probably should - but I think to say it's because he is a traitor, is the wrong reason, IMO.  
I think the line that is getting drawn in the sand here about confederates inappropriately absolves the north from all the profiting it did over slavery.

The commercial North shares in the shame of slavery
https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-commerical-North-shares-in-the-shame-of-2566636.php

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