I don’t strictly agree with changing names back, but it’s still conservative. What do y’all think?
What is Conservative about honoring traitors to the country?
You meant to say slavers, right? The founding fathers were traitors to the crown, its not strictly a bad thing
They were traitors. Do you think fighting against your country for the right to own slaves is more conservative than being a traitor for other reasons?
The slavery is the bad bit here.
They weren’t fighting their own country. Do you understand what secession is? The democrats left the Union and started a new country. Do you think California wanting to leave makes the state a traitor ?
At least one founding father thought a little rebellion was a good thing. I’m not a fan of the confederacy. It was democrats doing what democrats do but if you can’t leave the union, then we are not a democracy as tha left claims.
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This is a tough one for me. To me what’s important is when they were named. In the 1960’s it was common to name things after confederate generals due to the civil rights movement. The democrats wanted to name everything after confederates.
Things or statues from the late 1800 to early 1900 I have less of an issue with. Those were to honor the past and supported by all.
The intent is what’s important to me.
As a veteran of the Army, I disliked that many of bases were named after shitty generals.
To me what’s important is when they were named.
In this case it’s May 2024. Mountain View High School had its name changed to Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary was changed to Ashby Lee Elementary in May of 2024.
That’s just people protesting the recent changes. I suspect these were names in the 1960’s. That’s the common theme. As such I have no issue with them being renamed.
That said I don’t live there and people have a right to govern themselves. I think this is just an anti “woke” thing but unless the school was honoring the confederate, which they rarely are, they shouldn’t have been named in the first place.