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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 05, 2024, 01:00:23 am »

Success:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/04/sir-walter-raleigh-sir-francis-drake-names-exeter-school/

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A private school has pledged to remove the names of Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake from its buildings in an “inclusivity” drive.

Parents at Exeter School in Devon were told that the Elizabethan naval heroes no longer “represent the values and inclusive nature” of the school.
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Raleigh was a colonialist who failed to establish a British settlement in North Carolina because of hostile relations with Native Americans.
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Drake took part in voyages with his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, which saw the capture of black African slaves.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 12, 2024, 03:45:12 pm »

https://mainemorningstar.com/2024/02/07/maine-grapples-with-renaming-racial-and-ethnic-slurs-in-place-names/

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At least 16 places in Maine have names that include racial or ethnic slurs, although by law many were supposed to be eradicated decades ago
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In 1977, Maine’s first Black state legislator Gerald Talbot sponsored a bill that prohibited the use of the n-word in the names of places, and in 2000, Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative Donald Soctomah got a bill passed eradicating from place names the sq-slur, a racist term for a Native American woman.

However, Talbot’s daughter, House Speaker Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), discovered in 2020 that her father’s bill had not been effectively enforced, nor had Soctomah’s measure. Several islands and other sites still illegally had names that bore slurs against Black people and Native American women.

Talbot Ross was behind a 2022 law intended to rectify noncompliance, tasking the Permanent Commission to create a council to identify remaining offensive place names. While Maine has been ahead of the curve in outlawing slurs from place names, the continued existence of offensive names in the state show oversight is still lacking.
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“When my father put in his landmark bill, he made a speech on the House floor that asked the state legislature if it was right for his kids to be raised in a state in which they could look at the names of mountains and rivers and streams that actually use the derogatory N-word,”
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The Place Justice Advisory Council found 163 places in Maine named after Indigenous people. “In these cases, which might at first appear to honor these individuals, what we have to ask is ‘Who did the naming?’” questioned Meadow Dibble, a project lead on the research. “Often what is being celebrated is people’s deaths, rather than honoring them.”

This. (Answer: probably a Western occupier.)
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 15, 2023, 04:38:23 pm »

Our enemies complain about our latest success:

https://vdare.com/posts/great-replacement-rumbles-on-minneapolis-s-patrick-henry-high-school-now-93-non-white-will-change-name-to-no-longer-honor-a-dead-white-male

They even included a photo which shows the American (ie. non-Western) campus architecture:



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If renaming one kindergarten bearing Anne Frank's name shows "the threat to Jews today", then what does renaming hundreds of schools, buildings, and streets bearing White people's names suggest about the threat posed to them in their own homelands?

These are not your homelands, occupier.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 06, 2023, 05:15:38 pm »

Montana becomes more American:

https://www.ktvh.com/news/montana-landmarks-named-after-confederate-president-renamed

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The U.S. Geological Survey’s Board on Geographic Names approved the renaming of three geographic features that had been named after Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
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Two of the features were given traditional Salish names, the third was named in honor of a Salish chief.

The board renamed Jeff Davis Gulch just outside Helena in Lewis and Clark County to In-qu-qu-leet Gulch, a rough phonetic rendering of the Salish word that means "Place of Lodgepole Pine." Jeff Davis Creek in Beaverhead County has been renamed Doyavinai Baa O’ogwaide which means “water flowing from the mountain creek."

Jeff Davis Peak in Broadwater County will now be called Three Eagles Peak. According to the Char Kooosta News, Three Eagles is named after a Salish chief from the late 1700s.

Posted by: rp
« on: December 01, 2023, 04:37:05 pm »

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 30, 2023, 03:39:56 pm »

Our enemies complain:

https://vdare.com/posts/erasing-america-non-whites-in-montgomery-county-seek-to-rename-francis-scott-key-middle-school-because-he-was-a-white-racist-and-slaveowner

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Wait until they find out Francis Scott Key was one of the founders of the American Colonization Society, an organization replete with some of America’s greatest white men of the 19th century, which had the aim of removing blacks from the United States.
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According to MoCo360, the review found the schools named after slaver owners are: Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring; Francis Scott Key Middle School in Silver Spring; Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Derwood; Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville; John Poole Middle School in Poolesville and Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville.

A recent Fall 2023 report from Montgomery County’s Periodical for Historical Research added a seventh school to the list—Julius West Middle School.

In February, members of the Magruder High School community filed a petition to rename the school because the school’s namesake ‘does not meet the acceptable criteria for a school name,’ reported The Washington Post.

Magruder, a founding father of Montgomery County and Revolutionary War officer, reported he had 26 enslaved people on his property on the 1790 Census.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 14, 2023, 07:46:06 pm »

Good catch!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12742845/Astronomers-call-Large-Small-Magellanic-Clouds-renamed-amid-claims-namesake-violent-colonialist-legacy.html

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Astronomers say the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds should be given a new title because of their namesake's 'violent colonialist legacy'.

The dwarf galaxies, visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere, have been known about for more than 1,000 years after being spotted by indigenous peoples across South America, Australia, and Africa.

But they are named after the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who claimed to have discovered them with his crew during his first circumnavigation of the globe between 1519 and 1522.
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Mia de los Reyes, an assistant professor of astronomy at Amherst College, Massachusetts, branded Magellan 'a coloniser, a slaver and a murderer'.

She added that he was 'no astronomer', nor was he the first to discover the galaxies because indigenous peoples had 'names and legends for these systems that predate Magellan by thousands of years'.

Professor de los Reyes said she and 'a coalition of astronomers' were calling for the scientific community to rename the clouds, 'as well as other astronomical objects, institutions, and facilities that bear his name'.   

A lunar crater, a Martian crater, NASA's Magellan spacecraft, the twin Magellan telescopes in Chile and the next-generation telescope under construction – called the Giant Magellan Telescope – are all named after the explorer.

'I and many other astronomers believe that astronomical objects and facilities should not be named after Magellan, or after anyone else with a violent colonialist legacy,' Professor de los Reyes wrote in the American Physical Society journal.

She said the explorer had murdered, enslaved and burned the homes of indigenous people during his circumnavigation, while also placing iron manacles on the 'youngest and best proportioned men' in what is now Argentina.
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The very first recorded mention of the Large Magellanic Cloud was by Persian astronomer Shirazi, in his Book of Fixed Stars around 964 AD.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 02, 2023, 03:46:26 pm »

Previously:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/msg728/#msg728

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what does it say about a civilization that sees no problem with naming birds after the first humans who shot them?? Answer: it is Western. This story really succinctly captures how Western civilization interacts with everything it comes into contact with. The initiated violence, the utter lack of respect, the reflexive hubris, all in one package.
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here is a False Leftist on the issue:

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    Should any birds be named after people? Some birders, like Nick Lund, didn’t want to end the honorific process altogether. “It’s fun to honor people, and add a sense of history,” he wrote at The Birdist, while stressing that offensive names should be changed. “If there's a bird named after some guy and it turns out that guy was a huge racist jerk, change the name!”

Lund may be against racism, but he is still a Westerner because he thinks it is "fun" to name non-humans after humans. A True Leftist, on the other hand, is effortlessly aware that it is disrespectful.

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    Birders like Philadelphia’s Tony Croasdale have created lists of revised names, redubbing animals like Rivoli’s Hummingbird to Majestic Hummingbird or Harris’s Hawk to Pack-hunting Hawk.

Success:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/01/bird-names-racism-audubon/

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After two years of discussion and debate, the nation’s premier birding organization has decided that birds should not have human names.
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The American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday that it will remove names given to North American birds in honor of people and replace them with monikers that better describe their plumage and other characteristics. The group said it will prioritize birds whose names trace to enslavers, white supremacists and robbers of Indigenous graves.
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Not every birder in the 2,700-member society is expected to welcome the news. Some who’ve memorized names established for more than a century are likely to push back. “Are we expecting that people won’t agree with this decision—sure,” Morris said. “But we’re proud of this decision.”

The American Ornothological Society just became more authentically American (ie. non-Western).
Posted by: Zhang Caizhi
« on: November 01, 2023, 12:19:48 am »

It's interesting that the Ayatollah or his press secretary prefers this term.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 31, 2023, 05:19:56 pm »

Yes, "West Asia" is definitely the worse term by far, as most of "West Asia":



 is actually east of the accurate definition of Asia (shown in red):



making the name absurd to anyone who knows history. "West Asia" is also functionally worse because it excludes Egypt etc., unlike "Middle East":



On the other hand, Mashriq:



has the disadvantage of excluding Iran and Turkey. The best we can do is Rashidun:



I suppose we could try to promote the term "Greater Rashidun"?
Posted by: rp
« on: October 31, 2023, 02:22:52 pm »

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1589976896925597696?t=uS-YFy86Sx_yhgtfNjd-EQ&s=19
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What is meant by “Middle East”? Any region far from Europe is called the Far East, close to Europe is Near East, & anything in between is #MiddleEast. Europe is the benchmark for these names. The West claimed such rights for themselves. Don’t say the Middle East; say #WestAsia.

I agree with everything but the last sentence. Asia itself is a Eurocentric term FFS!
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: August 25, 2023, 08:25:29 pm »

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08/tribes-want-to-rename-ohios-wayne-national-forest-sen-jd-vance-does-not.html

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WASHINGTON, D. C. – Native American tribes whom Gen. Anthony Wayne helped remove from Ohio more than 200 years now want to remove his name from the Southeast Ohio’s Wayne National Forest.
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A Forest Service press release said Wayne’s “complicated legacy includes leading a violent campaign against the Indigenous peoples of Ohio that resulted in their removal from their homelands,” and described the current forest name as “offensive because of this history of violence.”
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U.S. Sen. JD Vance on Thursday asked top Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials to oppose the change. In a letter to Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack and Forest Service Chief Randy Moore, Vance said the name change would denigrate Ohio history and represent “a lack of fidelity to our nation’s founding generation.”

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/old-content/msg7380/#msg7380

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/leftist-vs-rightist-moral-circles/msg9760/#msg9760
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: August 22, 2023, 04:57:55 pm »

Work continues:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/bigot-racist-democrat-pushes-strip-171601149.html

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Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, introduced a resolution on Friday calling on Congress' upper chamber to wipe the name of the late Sen. Richard Russell off the Russell Senate Office Building. The Georgia Democrat was a staunch opponent of de-segregation and the Civil Rights Movement during his nearly four decades in the Senate.

"I marvel at how we have arrived in the year 2023, and we have a building on this campus, named after a person who was a White supremacist, a person who fought against anti-lynching laws, a person who fought integration, a person who was a segregationist," Green fumed on the House floor in late July. "And we, people of color, tolerate it."

About Russell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Russell_Jr.#Legacy

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Russell was seen as a hero by many of the pro Jim Crow South. While undoubtedly a skilled politician of immense influence, his legacy is marred by his lifelong support of white supremacy. Russell publicly said that America was “a white man’s country, yes, and we are going to keep it that way.” He also said he was vehemently opposed to “political and social equality with the Negro.” Russell also supported poll taxes across the South and called President Truman's support of civil rights for black Americans an “uncalled-for attack on our Southern civilization."[38]
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: June 27, 2023, 02:14:34 pm »

Thank you!

https://www.kcra.com/article/3-sacramento-schools-wont-be-named-after-racist-historical-figures-anymore-district-says/44321366#

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

Three Sacramento schools are getting new names as part of a rebrand away from the racist historical California figures they were named after, the Sacramento City Unified School District said.

SCUSD's board voted Thursday to rename Sutter Middle School, Peter Burnett Elementary School and Kit Carson International Academy, with the three being schools viewed as having “the most egregious school names,” according to the district.
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Sutter Middle School will be renamed Miwok Middle School in honor of the Miwok people who lived in the region when Europeans came to California.

Peter Burnett will be renamed Suy:u Elementary, which is pronounced: “suu you.” Suy: u is the Miwok name for "hawk." The name was inspired by recommendations from the school’s students and community members to call the school Red Tail Hawk Elementary.

Kit Carson is being renamed Umoja International Academy in a tribute to the first principal of Kwanzaa to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
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As part of the proposal, members of the renaming committee produced short biographical profiles about Sutter, Carson and Burnett’s racist and exploitative behavior and a list of sources by historians.

“Sutter enslaved Native peoples by making war on local tribes, which provided him with a steady source of free labor for his enterprises as well as a source of income by which to reduce his debts through the sale of orphaned children,” the Sutter bio says.

The bio notes that some Miwok and Nisenan residents were drawn to his trading post for security, but then after beginning working for him, “the threat of violence prevented indigenous people from leaving, which meant their permanent enslavement.”

The section on Carson links the famous trapper and guide to the ambush of a village on the Sacramento River that killed several hundred people.

“Serving as Colonel John C. Frémont’s scout in California, in 1846 Kit Carson and Frémont’s men destroyed a village on the Sacramento River with artillery and rifle fire and then descended upon the village with swords, pistols, axes, and knives,” the bio says. “Anyone attempting to escape was chased down and murdered by mounted soldiers wielding Tomahawks.”

Carson later commanded an expedition against the Navajo, who refused removal to reservations.

That expedition “killed all Navajo men wherever they were found, burned crops, destroyed villages, slaughtered livestock,” among other actions.

Burnett, California’s first governor, is noted for first becoming the supreme judge of Oregon’s territorial government and advocating “for the total exclusion of all African Americans from the territory.”

He became known for authoring what was called “Burnett’s lash law,” which allowed the beating of any free Black people who refused to leave the territory.

The bio said that Burnett owned two slaves that he kept in California and also advocated for exclusion once he moved to the Golden State.

“Regarding California’s tribal communities, Burnett gave state money to local militias to exterminate the indigenous peoples and worked with the U.S. government to obtain the resources needed to carry out this genocide,” the bio says.

At last, it's not OK for school names to be "white"!