Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "badgolferman" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: mount mckinley Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:50:23 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:50:23 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f77478624ace6fe7c3b6e018ff413007"; logging-data="184892"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19xLmbycP6dhoQdE6bpUM6Ki0qAQNa3574=" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.372 (x86; Portable ISpell) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Od/XPSzYx/RBHEj1+q0DyafTf7c= X-Ref: reader443.eternal-september.org ~XNS:00002DAD X-Face: 09>j%-W3HnyolA\I${DXfUw}~nKyLDiU8IwUVM'` Bytes: 2793 Alan wrote: >>What you see is wrong. Mt. McKinley is inside the US and any >>country has the right to rename its own places. The map should be >>corrected wherever you’re using it. >> > >And any reasonable federal government wouldn't override the wishes of >the people in the state in which that place exists. No 51, that's not true. Governments do whatever they want in between elections. Here in Virginia which is the cradle of America, the local governments removed any vestige of the Confederacy by renaming any street or school, and removing statues and plaques within their borders. Of course this is at great cost to any business or resident which which must reprint all their stationery and redo anything which had their address on it. Do you think those locals wanted the name changes? As for Mount McKinley, it was named that since 1917 until 2015 when Obama renamed it. Do you think there are any people alive other than some indigenous people who were calling it Denali before that? Then you have the University of Virginia which was founded by Thomas Jefferson who was one of our greatest presidents. There was a movement by the administration and staff to remove any likeness of him from the school grounds, websites, books, etc. because he was a slave owner and fathered children from slaves. The radicalization in one direction by the previous presidential administration has caused the pendulum to now swing farther in the opposite direction. -- "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." ~ George Orwell