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| Austin, Texas Considers PC Name-Change |
| 2018-07-31 |
| [Townhall] In the latest efforts to rectify America's history of its slaveholding past, Austin’s Equity Office suggested that the Texas capital change its entire name in addition to removing statues and street signs in honor of Confederate soldiers. Austin, TX is named after Stephen F. Austin. The man, now known as the "father of Texas," one time "opposed an attempt by Mexico to ban slavery in the province of Tejas and said if slaves were freed, they would turn into "'vagabonds, a nuisance, and a menace." Conventional wisdom, in 1835. The report noted that there would be pushback against the proposed ideas, but defended it from accusations of whitewashing history. Hardly "whitewashing". How dare you? Updating history, correcting history. Rectifying history. O.K., blackwashing. "It is essential to acknowledge that societal values are fluid, and they can be and are different today compared to when our city made decisions to name and/or place these Confederate symbols in our community," the document said. Exactly. That's why it is perfectly valid to leave an old name - or statue - alone. Embrace the different values. Be tolerant! The office was aware "the likelihood of opposing viewpoints and nodded to inconveniences to businesses and residents and the view that changing the names could be considered a threat to historical preservation." How perceptive! "It is also important to acknowledge that nearly all monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders were erected without a true democratic process. People of color often had no voice and no opportunity to raise concerns about the city’s decision to honor Confederate leaders," the office added. Washington Square in Austin will be next, followed by Jefferson Street. Time to point and laugh. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #12 Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, Tejas... It has a certain ... ambiance... doesn't it? |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-07-31 21:46 |
| #11 Snowflake, Texas has a nice ring to it. |
| Posted by: AuburnTom 2018-07-31 16:56 |
| #10 Ooops (#4) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-31 14:25 |
| #9 To Santa Anna Texas? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-07-31 14:24 |
| #8 Lostin? Costin'? Boston (as in, "the Athens of Texas")? Or annoy the sign painters guild by just changing which Austin "Austin" points to? Six Million Dollar Man's obviously ineligible, but surely there's a first bicolor trans furperson of oxidation management, or a lesb1an freedman Union vet, or... whatever... that all decent folks could get behind? And when they come for H-Town, how about "Hopkins?" Or "Jesus City." Whichever. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-07-31 14:24 |
| #7 Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and several others of the founding fathers were slave owners. How long will it be before the SJWs demand that the District of Columbia, the state of Washington, all of the 30+ places named Jefferson" change their names? Oh, and tear down the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. Might as well tear down the Lincoln Memorial while they're at it. After all, Lincoln was a Republican. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-07-31 14:00 |
| #6 See if Jesus City flies. That'll give Sessions something to investigate. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-31 13:18 |
| #5 I vote for Juliostan. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-07-31 12:29 |
| #4 Rename it Santa Ana. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-07-31 10:33 |
| #3 But then, Stephen F. Austin, for whom the city is named died before the Civil War and by most accounts was not a slave owner. So just another example of Libs from other parts of the country moving to a Red state and infecting the politics with their moon bat crazy ideas. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-07-31 09:49 |
| #2 People of color often had no voice and no opportunity to raise concerns about the city’s decision to honor Confederate leaders They also had no voice in the drafting and ratification of the Constitution of the United States. Oh, and there were slave holders too involved in that. Let's throw everything out and make it about pure power. Let's see who's left standing. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-07-31 08:55 |
| #1 call it Pancho Villa |
| Posted by: Squinty Gurly-Brown3033 2018-07-31 08:33 |