floofloof@lemmy.ca to Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe Magellanic Clouds must be renamed, astronomers saywww.space.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaresilencioso@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down5·edit-21 year agoFollowing the same “logic”: Let’s rename Washington DC and Washington State because George Washington was a slave owner.
minus-squareElectroNeutrino@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoIt wouldn’t be the first city that changed it’s name, or even the first one to do so because of the racist history of the previous name.
Following the same “logic”: Let’s rename Washington DC and Washington State because George Washington was a slave owner.
It wouldn’t be the first city that changed it’s name, or even the first one to do so because of the racist history of the previous name.
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