ATTENTION: we have officially passed the stupidity event horizon.
A petition has been made with hopes of changing the city's name in St. Louis and taking down a statue of its namesake, Saint Louis IX in Forest Park. The creators say the city's name is "outright disrespect" to Jewish and Muslim residents and they're asking for support.
How's this? Kiss off.
For those unfamiliar with King Louis IX he was a rabid anti-semite who spearheaded many persecutions against the Jewish people. Centuries later Nazi Germany gained inspiration and ideas from Louis IX as they embarked on a campaign of murderous genocide against the Jewish people.
That's exactly where Hitler got his ideas. Dumbass.
Louis IX was also vehemently Islamophobic and led a murderous crusade against Muslims which ultimately cost him his life,” the petition states.
Whatever.
These are the fans of King Louis IX. Here when he says blasphemers he is referring to Jews. This is the man whose bloody sword sits atop Art Hill in Forest Park and our city is named after. Take the statue down. Change the name of the city.
The only thing I know about that statue is that people used to climb up there and steal that sword all the time. Lord knows how many of those things are sitting in St. Louis garages. But what should the city's name be changed to? Some ideas have been floated.
Anyhoo, the advocates of this change have suggested alternative names for the Gateway City: “Confluence” or “Scott” (as in Dred Scott — because this was the site of his (in)famous trial.) So…would our teams become the “Scott Cardinals”? The “Confluence Blues”? Would East St. Louis (Illinois) go along for the ride and become “East Scott”?
Confluence Cardinals? Yeah, I can see it. Basically destroying whatever interest I had left in major league baseball.
UPDATE: Now that I think about it, I guess "Cardinals" will have to go too. The Roman Catholic influence; no point in pissing off potential Protestant ticket-buyers. This town was originally Pierre Laclede's attempt at a business so Confluence Huguenots might work.
Confluence Calvinists, maybe? Not sure what the team logo would be but...
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Columbus may one-up St. Louis, there's a petition to rename it...Flavortown!
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/06/19/Petition-calls-for-Columbus-Ohio-to-be-renamed-Flavortown/6091592597599/
I hate to see what they are going to do with Washington, and the DC (because Columbus) part of the name.
They tore down a statue of George Washington in Portland today. George Washington! What is wrong with these people?
I don't think this will go anywhere, but these are crazy times, indeed. The anti-Semite thing is true. Europeans in general were anti-Semites in those days, eight hundred years ago. The anti-Muslim crusade is also true. He went to war to try to win back the Holy Land from the Muslims who had invaded it and taken it from Christians. So? That theory goes, Muslim conquest good, Christian conquest bad. No sale here.
Here in NC, thugs tore down two statues from a memorial to Confederate dead at the State Capitol last night. Capitol police and Raleigh police don't seem to have done anything to stop it.
SyFy had a dystopian/futuristic show a few years back called "Defiance" that was set in what was left of St. Louis after an alien invasion. That would work for me, except IIRC there already is a Defiance, Missouri.
The statue of Columbus in Boston's North End was beheaded a few days ago. The statue was a privately funded memorial to Italian heritage. The city is storing the statue and plans to restore it.
What's really sad is the rioters defaced the memorial to the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, an all-Black Civil War unit.
Todays PC will become tomorrow's goat. The LeConte Memorial in Yosemite was renamed b/c the Sierra Club now disowns one of the founding members for his racial comments.
Via Mark Hemingway's Twitter, a comment from an apparently alert NY times opinion writer named Elizabeth Bruenig: "there's just something unsustainable about an environment that demands constant atonement but actively disdains the very idea of forgiveness."
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1273718245783154688?s=20
People who had tremendous accomplishments in history, like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc., must be condemned and removed from our remembrance because of their personal flaws, which are now judged unacceptable. We cannot celebrate the accomplishments while criticizing the flaws.
Oh, except for Joe Biden, who supported segregationists. That's different. Or Kamala Harris, who refused to release a man proved innocent from prison. That's different, too.
The very nature of blood sacrifice is atonement without forgiveness. It's not accidental many commentators are openly wondering if we're returning to paganism. It's also not accidental that every failed revolution of this sort denies Christ.
Katherine,
Re: "Europeans in general were anti-Semites in those days, eight hundred years ago."
We're supposed to learn from history and see how far we've come.
And, ...not make the same mistakes over again.
Neat little town, Defiance. I've been out that way a few times.
As for the rest of this crap, they can propose anything they like. As much as my folks may have hated the idea of coming back to this state, this is always going to be St. Louis.
Yes, TLM, and if we don't know about history, we don't know how far we've come.
So now they've torn down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco.
Of COURSE they did. Wouldn't be Frisco if they didn't.
I spent a fair amount of my childhood at the General Grant Shopping Center a little bit south of where I lived then. Several nearby streets are named for (Union) Civil War generals. A little bit south of that is a local attraction called Grant's Farm. It isn't really but the cabin Grant built for his actual farm is there; that thing's been moved around St. Louis quite a bit. Place is worth a visit if you're ever in town and you have little kids with you. So is Grant's father-in-law's old property which I think Grant ended up owning almost to the end of his life. It's across the road from Grant's Farm.
https://www.nps.gov/ulsg/index.htm
I really should see if I can find a County plat map some day. I'd love to see where Grant's spread actually was.
I've just read that the (Democrat) governor of RI is going to remove the words "Providence Plantations" from the name of the state. She plans to do this by executive fiat. Many of my high school friends (that I'm friendly with on Facebook) are absolutely enraged about this.
She's an idiot.
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