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[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]
Sure, I grant that there’s a difference, but they are on the same end of the “man’s inhumanity to man” spectrum and they’re not all that far apart. But by all means, continue to defend slavery as “really not as bad as Hitler’s Final Solution.”[/quote]

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