Virginia school board votes to restore schools' Confederate names

It's believed to be the first such action to reinstate a Confederate name.

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@caseyliss grabbing that one final chance to be on the wrong side of history
@caseyliss Wow. To make that choice in 2024…
@caseyliss one step forward and two steps back
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Is there nothing else to waste taxpayers’ money on?
@caspercdn @caseyliss Luckily, they're only allowed to waste private funds according to the article.

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When defenders try to explain to me that it isn't about being pro-slavery, I'm still left wondering why you would want monuments to a team that came in second in a contest of two?

It'd be as if baseball stadiums flew pennants for years where they came in dead last. What are we commemorating?

@andrew BuT tHaT iS oUr HeRiTaGe!¡!

(Which, coincidentally, doesn’t negate your point)

@caseyliss I would like them to keep the crappy names but teach why those figures are problematic. Like Washington and Lee University
@caseyliss It baffles my mind how the losing side of a civil wars keeps on sticking around.
@caseyliss Feels like conservatives just really like to celebrate traitors these days.

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More like States’ Wrongs amirite?

@hotdogsladies @caseyliss Hey, that’s COUNTY wrongs to you, pal - our renamed schools and roads up here in Arlington continue to be traitor-name free.
@caseyliss I am still workshopping this one...
@caseyliss “…warned the board that the Confederate names would brand the schools and their county as a haven for backward, racist thinking.” https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250446827/virginia-confederate-school-names-restored
One almost thinks they thought of that and did not care. So here we are with them becoming a national scene, then they were will double down to on their views because they are being persecuted.