There seems to be a lot of people here conflating the effort it would take to make the change with whether the ask is justified. Europeans committed genocide i

There seems to be a lot of people here conflating the effort it would take to make the change with whether the ask is justified. Europeans committed genocide in America - that's not a questionable statement, that was the stated policy of the early United States government, as well as that of most colonizing powers. We then named a bunch of things after the folks we committed genocide on, and made a bunch of racist caricatures of those people and slapped them on buildings, sports teams, and other cultural institutions. The survivors of that genocide are asking we stop doing that. It's a reasonable ask. It's probably not going to happen in this case, because it's a lot of fucking work, but it's a reasonable ask. They'd also like their land back, as well as their worldly possessions, maybe an apology, and, like, whatever else you do to make up for trying to wipe out several distinct entire peoples, and that's also sort of morally hard to argue with, even though it's also not going to happen. It's possible to say that a claim is justified and also that the work to do it is sufficiently large that it's not going to happen. It doesn't feel good, but it shouldn't.