Clemson University [monuments & names]

[gh]

if not behind paywayll, here's the list of names

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects...ool-name-poll/

[gh]

I'm OK with most PC positions, simply because they're usually trying to make a good point, albeit one carried a mite too far, but this one provides the slippery slope to 'cancel' virtually anyone they want, since no one is perfect. I don't know anyone who can stand that kind of scrutiny. Sheeesh!

Raoul Wallenberg High not on the list; he'd be tough find fault with I suspect

[Conor Dary]

Raoul Wallenberg High not on the list; he'd be tough find fault with I suspect

Such an optimist....what about all the Jews he didn't save.

[Conor Dary]

if not behind paywayll, here's the list of names

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects...ool-name-poll/

4 of the 7 Presidents died in office...

Anyways such an idiotic list it is hard to know where to begin.

[user4]

4 of the 7 Presidents died in office...Anyways such an idiotic list it is hard to know where to begin.

This one has to be changed, you simply can not name a school after a character from a comic strip : Garfield Elementary

Come to think of it, how can you have a school named after a disgraced Panamanian strong man:
Noriega EES

And it is pure insanity to name a school after a brand of air-rifle: Sheridan Elementary

Stop the madness.

[NotDutra5]

Prior to preceding Rudy Chapa to Hammond High School by a year or two, Jean Shepherd attended Warren G Harding Elementary. He always referred to the school by Harding's full name.

[Atticus]

Prior to preceding Rudy Chapa to Hammond High School by a year or two, Jean Shepherd attended Warren G Harding Elementary. He always referred to the school by Harding's full name.

Mine was Moses Y Beach (started the Associated Press) Elementary and no one called it anything but that.

[J Rorick]

Mine was Moses Y Beach

Believe Moses Y Beach is a signal for QAnon to start the revolution.

[18.99s]

I'll withhold my conclusion and criticism until I see how many of the 44 school names actually get changed, which were changed, and what they're changed to. The list of 44 is only a starting point which will get narrowed down when they can't get enough of the decision-makers to agree to them.

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile.... this is a lovely place...

At VMI, Black cadets endure lynching threats, Klan memories and Confederacy veneration

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local....co/ZA4GeuYCqX

[tandfman]

Meanwhile....

We had to salute Stonewall Jackson’s statue at VMI when I was a freshman (now a defunct practice). I think it was supposed to imbue us with a sense of southern pride and history. But all it taught me was that Jackson was a very weird dude.

The cadets all hated his guts and called him “Tom Fool.” He had this goofball teaching method of just reciting the textbook verbatim, was a hypochondriac, he believed posture kept his organs “balanced,” rode horses with one arm up for blood flow, and constantly sucked on lemons.

https://mobile.twitter.com/noonanjo/...85990583934977

Headline - VMI to Remove Statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nati...ckson/2694640/

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile....across the pond...

Greg Clarke resigns as Football Association chairman after remark about black players

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54894864

[tandfman]

Headline - Barbados removes statue of British naval officer Horatio Nelson for his role in the slave trade

https://globalvoices.org/2020/11/18/...e-slave-trade/

[TN1965]

UC Berkeley removed the names of 'racist' figures from two of its buildings

The names from LeConte Hall and Barrows Hall were removed Wednesday, according to a statement from university chancellor Carol Christ. This comes after a formal review process found the buildings' namesakes had values not consistent with those of the university, the school said.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/us/uc...rnd/index.html

[tandfman]

A Toronto suburb has changed the name of a street named for a German naval captain, who was a Nazi.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/202...w-moniker.html