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Originally Posted by Causey
If WW3 comes to our soil, it will end this BS. The clowns worried about words will learn that real problems exist in the world. Life has become too easy in the USA.
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True enough. As Dad used to say whenever some fringe group or cause made the news, "Good times".
But all this is really, is the tail wagging the dog. Back in the day, when the Freaks went from championing PeaceLoveDope to roosting in trees and chaining themselves to bulldozers, they were amusing. I remember joking the the first environmentalists were ex-hippies who found the only thing that would get them taken even semi-seriously. They were folks high on idealism (well, probably more than just idealism) but woefully short on knowledge, who had found a way to get their faces and names in media. It progressed (well, "progressed" might not be the right word) to things more in line with the topic of this discussion: first changing the way hurricanes were named; first moving away from single-sex names, then toward more "inclusive" names from minority segments of our society, etc. School names were changed as well; if they were originally named after someone who in the eyes of the former Freaks just didn't measure up to their standards, they hooted and hollered until they got a change in names. One of my favorites is the former Sibley High School near St. Paul, MN, now named Two Rivers High School, and originally named after a Minnesota pioneer and fur trapper who later became the state's first governor. However he also lead a punitive expedition against the Sioux in 1862, which in the opinion of the Social Justice crowd forever colored his name and rendered him unrememberable except in the most negative ways.
But the all-time champion in the ridiculous renaming department has to be Lake Bde maka ska. Any former Minnesotans here? Five points if you can pronounce it, five more if you can identify it by it's former name, and ten points if you can give the ridiculous reason for the change.
Oh well...