Anonymous wrote:They are taking down a bunch of statues in New Orleans. I hope they at least move them somewhere where students of history can view them. I dont mind occasions renamings if someone new / more relevant is to be honored - but this surgical excision of America's past is horrifying. They say study the past to avoid repeating it, but we are just hitting delete. How computer generation.

The progressive agenda cannot survive concurrently with an understanding of history. Removing history is the worst kind of control.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious, what do you people personally have against Jefferson Davis?

Personally? Nothing. I just don't think we should name roads after the leaders of U.S. enemies. Do you?

Jefferson Davis posthumously received a full pardon in 1978. He also was the head of state of the government to which the commonwealth of Virginia belonged during the civil war. I'm not sure why naming a road after him is so objectionable.

Uh because said state fought us and lost? What kind of place voluntarily honors failed revolts against it?

"Fought us"— were talking about a state highway in Virgnia. Jefferson Davis didn't fight Virginia. Back then southerners could either be traitors to their state or to the country.

History is written by winners. The Confederation lost. We remove the name from the highway.

Anonymous wrote:Why would you seek to rename the highway but not:

Washington & Lee High School
Arlington (from Lee's Arlington House)
Etc.

It will come.

They are taking down a bunch of statues in New Orleans. I hope they at least move them somewhere where students of history can view them. I dont mind occasions renamings if someone new / more relevant is to be honored - but this surgical excision of America's past is horrifying. They say study the past to avoid repeating it, but we are just hitting delete. How computer generation.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious, what do you people personally have against Jefferson Davis?

Personally? Nothing. I just don't think we should name roads after the leaders of U.S. enemies. Do you?

Jefferson Davis posthumously received a full pardon in 1978. He also was the head of state of the government to which the commonwealth of Virginia belonged during the civil war. I'm not sure why naming a road after him is so objectionable.

Uh because said state fought us and lost? What kind of place voluntarily honors failed revolts against it?

"Fought us"— were talking about a state highway in Virgnia. Jefferson Davis didn't fight Virginia. Back then southerners could either be traitors to their state or to the country.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious, what do you people personally have against Jefferson Davis?

Personally? Nothing. I just don't think we should name roads after the leaders of U.S. enemies. Do you?

Jefferson Davis posthumously received a full pardon in 1978. He also was the head of state of the government to which the commonwealth of Virginia belonged during the civil war. I'm not sure why naming a road after him is so objectionable.

Uh because said state fought us and lost? What kind of place voluntarily honors failed revolts against it?

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Anonymous wrote:Are you referring to the President Davis highway? I don't know why Arlington seeks to rewrite history. They should also change the name "Arlington" to something else while they're at it, since it's taken from the name of General Lee's house.

the name of the house was from the dust is family. Lee married into it.

Yes your right about that "Custis originally wanted to name the property "Mount Washington", but was persuaded by family members to name it "Arlington House" after the Custis family's homestead on the Eastern Shore of Virginia." But it was still General Lee's house when it was seized and it was later given back to the Lee family by the Supreme Court. The point is that, like it or not, the confederates are an important part of Virginia history and it is silly to try to wipe out every mention of it. I'm a new englander originally, but I can appreciate the fact that it's worth honoring those that fought and served on both sides of the war. Note Georgetown University's colors: blue and grey. Would you have them change it to only blue?

Why would you seek to rename the highway but not:

Washington & Lee High School
Arlington (from Lee's Arlington House)
Etc.

Anonymous wrote:Are you referring to the President Davis highway? I don't know why Arlington seeks to rewrite history. They should also change the name "Arlington" to something else while they're at it, since it's taken from the name of General Lee's house.

the name of the house was from the dust is family. Lee married into it.

I always find these confederate controversies—more than a century after the fact— ridiculous. Do you think folks in the U.K. try to change the name of every street named after Oliver Cromwell? (He also started a civil war and new government which eventually lost.) How about Julius Caesar? William Wallace? Etc. etc.

I am betting that the ones pulling out their politically correct tight butt pitchforks are mostly liberal transplants who think they know it all. As a arlington amd georgetown native I could care less.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious, what do you people personally have against Jefferson Davis?

Personally? Nothing. I just don't think we should name roads after the leaders of U.S. enemies. Do you?

Jefferson Davis posthumously received a full pardon in 1978. He also was the head of state of the government to which the commonwealth of Virginia belonged during the civil war. I'm not sure why naming a road after him is so objectionable.

Are you referring to the President Davis highway? I don't know why Arlington seeks to rewrite history. They should also change the name "Arlington" to something else while they're at it, since it's taken from the name of General Lee's house.