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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Their words were silly and easily rebuttable, so it wasn’t what they said that was scary. What was scary was their demeanor and how angry and on edge most of the old white speakers were. You could just tell that much of their self-worth was wrapped up in the old name and how easily they would have fit in with the tiki torch crowd. Yuck.[/quote]

Oh, please.  Old people wanting to see their alma mater keep its name and their memories is far from a "tiki torch" crowd.  Have a little compassion.
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My mom attended Washington-Lee back in the late 50s and she rolled her eyes regarding the name change.  I guess that makes her a racist.   :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

Certainly sounds that way.  [/quote]

Maybe racist. Maybe not. I don't know the mother. But, she is most certainly tone deaf and lacking in empathy. It's reasonable that minority students would not want to attend a school named after a Confederate, slave-owning, general.[/quote]

[b]From all accounts, the current students did not GAF[/b]. 
Seriously, this was about the school board looking for cover from bad PR re: the WL boundary change that made headlines. They have consistently backed the values of segration time and again. They ,and the echo chamber that championed that ridiculous name, have no moral high ground. 
I have no problem with virtue signaling, when people are actually virtuous. Arlington is deeply rotten.
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There was no outcry for changing the name. I've had 4 kids attend W-L over the past decade, including a current student.  They have all had diverse friends (one of the best things about the school).  I have been very involved at the school, including with the PTA, four different sports teams, the Athletic Boosters, the marching band, committees dealing with overcrowding issues and volunteered for various and sundry events over the past decade.  The only time I heard a single complaint about Lee was last year from a white student who had graduated a couple years before from Yorktown.  I'm not saying that everyone was fine with the name or that the SB needed some huge public outrage before it could change the name, just that there was no outcry over Lee.

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