I don’t strictly agree with changing names back, but it’s still conservative. What do y’all think?

    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      To me what’s important is when they were named.

      In this case it’s May 2024. Mountain View High School had its name changed to Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary was changed to Ashby Lee Elementary in May of 2024.

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      11 months ago

      As an army veteran, I have always found the naming of military facilities for shitty racist losers to be blatant pandering and a poor consolation prize to the wounded sensibilities of ‘the lost cause’ etc

      There was nothing noble about any of that shit, it was 100% about slavery and to be fair, more or less the entire country had been implicitly or explicitly involved in the practice from colonial times.

      So perhaps the consolation prizes and TYFYS-ism of it all was warranted for a period. But that period is well over by now.