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Originally Posted by Changing City
In this specific case, no names are being changed. There will be a new bridge structure, so it can have a new name. There's an opportunity to choose a name that doesn't reflect, or implicitly support past actions that would now be considered unacceptable. And I'm a boomer. I don't think generational insults are relevant in this discussion - or any other really.
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For the record I actually do think that this actually is a case where a new name is appropriate. Just want the name to be appropriate and for people not to get up their own asses too hard with how wonderful and progressive they are over it.
To me that’s the core of the problem, is that sometimes progressive changes are good and appropriate, the sad thing is those good moments / aspects have now been over crowded with twitter mob / everything must be changed / white guilt / virtue signaling bullshit, so it becomes hard to shift through the shit for the corn. The same thing happened to the right wing about two decades prior where good ideas / good points from conservative thinking became overcrowded and linked with tea party / creationist / etc... bullshit.
That said I would be against removing George Massey’s name from the new structure eventually built there since that entire original crossing was directly his project / vision.
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