It’s hard to frame the whole thing in terms other than disappointingly stupid, isn’t it?srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:50 pmSorry, TAM. Yes, I was thinking there might actually be one member of the commission in Austin that still had a shred of common sense. That really is hard to imagine knowing Austin as I do, but I thought it might be possible.The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:00 pmI posted this same article on facebook just this morning, and the suggestion to change the city’s name came from within the commission that is tasked with looking into renaming monuments, parks, schools, etc.srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 4:38 pm I saw this article and I am left wondering if there is someone left in Austin who put this in as an attempt to show the rest of them just how ridiculous this whitewashing of history really is. I cannot think, even in Austin, that this is a serious proposal, which left me guessing it was someone who was trying to point out that we are trying to impose today's standards on people who lived in another time. You can even see the mention of society's values being fluid as a warning that this will happen again. There is also the warning of a lack of democratic process in there. Those could be taken as excuses for how the city got into this situation or warnings that it will happen again, no matter who we name the streets/parks/monuments after.
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I posted this same article on facebook just this morning, and the suggestion to change the city’s name came from within the commission that is tasked with looking into renaming monuments, parks, schools, etc.srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 4:38 pm I saw this article and I am left wondering if there is someone left in Austin who put this in as an attempt to show the rest of them just how ridiculous this whitewashing of history really is. I cannot think, even in Austin, that this is a serious proposal, which left me guessing it was someone who was trying to point out that we are trying to impose today's standards on people who lived in another time. You can even see the mention of society's values being fluid as a warning that this will happen again. There is also the warning of a lack of democratic process in there. Those could be taken as excuses for how the city got into this situation or warnings that it will happen again, no matter who we name the streets/parks/monuments after.