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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don't we just sanitize everything and name things by number and color (except black white yellow and red).  Read a few dystopian novels and you will see how that looks when taken to the extreme.  It is always a good idea to completely paper over history so that we can repeat it.  I think we should rename New York to whatever it was called by the Native Americans before they were all kicked out by the Europeans.  Maybe it was Manhattan.  Fine--rename it.  No more NYC.

Or, let's get outraged by names on schools and pass around petitions but put our heads in the sand about the fact that our country is under attach by radical Islam.  Seriously--isn't that a more important issue today. Yes, Lee was on the losing side but it was a part of American HISTORY!  Should we just sanitize all of that away. Ok then, I don't want to hear about slavery at all because we are pretending it all didn't happen.  DOn't want to make people uncomfortable.  That is the goal, right?  To avoid offending?  Well I get offended when crazies from the Middle East kill our Marines and we call it "domestic terror" and our President wishes muslims a happy end to Ramadan on that very day!  What is going on?!  
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What a bunch of babble.  These schools weren't teaching black students about why they were named after Confederate generals.  The names just perpetuate a false narrative that these men deserve to be honored because they were good tactical officers on a battlefield, which could be said of any number of Nazi military leaders or ISIS operatives whom we wisely choose not to honor. The word on the street is that Stuart will be renamed after Thurgood Marshall, who lived in a nearby part of Falls Church zoned for the school.  [/quote]

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