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The article is paywalled, so https://archive.md/iZkYg https://archive.md/iZkYg The actual article title is "Cancel culture reaches a peak with war on racist mo

The article is paywalled, so https://archive.md/iZkYg https://archive.md/iZkYg The actual article title is "Cancel culture reaches a peak with war on racist mountains". It cites several renaming examples - none of which I can see a good faith argument against. (The article itself doesn't seem to cite a particular grievance against any of them either.) The article ends with this weaselly paragraph: > Some critics see the ban as an example of “cancel culture”, similar to the removal of Confederate statues. Last year, a referendum was held in Mississippi on the design of the state flag, replacing one that included the Confederate battle flag. Almost three quarters of voters approved the new design. This is just pathetic.

rideontime 5y ago
The title and last paragraph are so incongruous with the rest of the article that they feel tacked on by editorial to both-sides the issue and/or get clicks. There's no both sides to "Chinaman Mountain."
- Ancapistani 5y ago
  I’ve always thought “Chinaman” sounded like a superhero. If I lived in China and people called me “America Man” I’d be tempted to wear a cape.
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tzs 5y ago
If the Confederate monuments were actually built not too long after the war for the purpose of remembering those who died in the war, I could see a case for keeping them. But that is not when or why most were built. Most were build in the 1900-1920 timeframe, when in response to increasing pushes for equality for blacks states were enacting Jim Crow laws to try to limit that. They were built to intimidate blacks, to send a message that the town does not support equality. There was a similar but smaller boom in putting them up in the '50s and '60s, again to send a message that the civil right movement was not welcome. There's a graph showing how many were built each year (and also schools names after Confederate leaders) in this article [1]. Here's another interesting article on this [2]. [1] https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues... [2] https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confede...
- TMWNN 5y ago
  >But that is not when or why most were built. Most were build in the 1900-1920 timeframe, when in response to increasing pushes for equality for blacks states were enacting Jim Crow laws to try to limit that. Jim Crow laws were mostly enacted during the late 1800s, after the end of Reconstruction. There is very little that I can point to during the 1900s to 1920s as evidence of a substantial pro-civil rights for blacks push in the US. Teddy Roosevelt inviting Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House is pretty insignificant compared to, say, the Wilson (probably the most racist president in US history) administration's end of making federal jobs in DC available to blacks, or there being no blacks in Congress between 1901 and 1929. No, the major reason for those Confederate monuments being built in the 1900s-1920s is because of the increasing number of deaths of Confederate veterans from old age. (Similarly, the US's national WW2 memorial wasn't dedicated until 2004.)

rideontime 5y ago

The title and last paragraph are so incongruous with the rest of the article that they feel tacked on by editorial to both-sides the issue and/or get clicks. There's no both sides to "Chinaman Mountain."

Ancapistani 5y ago
I’ve always thought “Chinaman” sounded like a superhero. If I lived in China and people called me “America Man” I’d be tempted to wear a cape.
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tzs 5y ago

If the Confederate monuments were actually built not too long after the war for the purpose of remembering those who died in the war, I could see a case for keeping them. But that is not when or why most were built. Most were build in the 1900-1920 timeframe, when in response to increasing pushes for equality for blacks states were enacting Jim Crow laws to try to limit that. They were built to intimidate blacks, to send a message that the town does not support equality. There was a similar but smaller boom in putting them up in the '50s and '60s, again to send a message that the civil right movement was not welcome. There's a graph showing how many were built each year (and also schools names after Confederate leaders) in this article [1]. Here's another interesting article on this [2]. [1] https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues... [2] https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confede...

TMWNN 5y ago
>But that is not when or why most were built. Most were build in the 1900-1920 timeframe, when in response to increasing pushes for equality for blacks states were enacting Jim Crow laws to try to limit that. Jim Crow laws were mostly enacted during the late 1800s, after the end of Reconstruction. There is very little that I can point to during the 1900s to 1920s as evidence of a substantial pro-civil rights for blacks push in the US. Teddy Roosevelt inviting Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House is pretty insignificant compared to, say, the Wilson (probably the most racist president in US history) administration's end of making federal jobs in DC available to blacks, or there being no blacks in Congress between 1901 and 1929. No, the major reason for those Confederate monuments being built in the 1900s-1920s is because of the increasing number of deaths of Confederate veterans from old age. (Similarly, the US's national WW2 memorial wasn't dedicated until 2004.)