Originally published at: Five U.S. towns change name to remove racial slur for Native Americans | Boing Boing
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and ask any of these pearl clutchers if they still refer to the place back East as “Nieuw Amsterdam”
- a guy who lives on an island now called Aquidneck Island again, after a period of being known as Rhode Island
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Has Aquidneck officially been renamed?
If it hadn’t happened before, it would have made sense to do that at the same time the name of the state was changed to Rhode Island.
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The Daily Fail is almost nothing except manufactured right-wing outrage. And it works to persuade millions around the world.
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the official non-answer is that the geographical name was always Aquidneck but the political name was Rhode Island
it’s been called Aquidneck again for at least a century and a half, so this is no modern sop
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Looking through the places, the most significant rage I can find about it seems to be at British tabloid newspapers, fully hysterical about “political correctness.”
Well, where do you think that racism was imported into America from in the first place? Most British tabloids’ attitudes are still stuck in the 17th Century, so the timing matches.
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Including indigenous Americans who head up the department in charge of changing place names!?!
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yes, having Indigenous people in positions of power can produce needed changes but doesn’t mean USA isn’t a settler colony with ongoing genocide
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True, but that doesn’t make random people on the internet presuming to speak for indigenous Americans on an initiative that they are responsible for any less offensive.
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Proposal for Petition for Renaming: Everyone everywhere shall forever refer to the Daily Mail as That Useless Piece of Shit Rag.
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Daily Mail .com is aimed at overseas consumers of right wing hate (over 70% of readers are outside Britain) and has been for years.
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Around here (UK) It’s usually referred to as “The Daily Hate” or “The Daily Fail”.
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Or the Daily Heil. Hurrah for the Blackshirts! As they say themselves.
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Oh, the state has always been known as Rhode Island informally, as was the colony which preceded it. The ‘official’ old name until recently was “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” because the economic, political and population center was, in fact, on the island. Providence does not become the official state capitol until the 20th C.
The City of Newport had been the fourth or fifth largest settlement of white people in North America, and the largest active trading port until the British Expeditionary Forces took over the city and Narragansett Bay as headquarters for the quashing of the traitorous rebellion against the Crown 1776-79. Then they took off for the South, in an effort to hold on to the moneymaking and raw products worked by enslaved people.
Which the provided an excellent deep water port for the arriving French troops and sailors under Rochambeau in 1780, and it is from here that they marched,with Washington and his troops to Yorktown, VA to defeat Cornwallis in battle
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Do they at least make good newspaper logs for the fireplace?
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That’s one of the daily heil’s best uses; another is lining bird cages and litter boxes.
I’d never let it touch fish & chips for fear of toxicity/bad taste transference.
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