Comments by "Jock Young" (@jockyoung4491) on "Alabama superintendent fights to remove Confederate school names" video.

  1. I love the Southerners screaming that we need to remember our history, then banning the discussion of slavery in schools.
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  2. Exactly. We can remember the history of Benedict Arnold without naming a high school after him.
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  3.  @JeanetteFaith  If they are art, then put them in an art museum. If they are history, then put them in a history museum. If they are traitors, then we don't put them in the public square.
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  4.  @Great-white-tiger-hunter  Actually slaves didn't build the pyramids, but you are missing the point. We name high schools after people we want to celebrate as a community.
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  5.  @devo2  But celebrating bad behavior is not teaching anybody history. We teach histoty by explaining why these names should be changed.
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  6.  @arnulfo267  It is official celebration of a racist past
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  7.  @Great-white-tiger-hunter  What does that have to do with naming a high school after a traitor?
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  8.  @devo2  But how does naming a high school or putting a statue in the public square say "this was dark"? It says "this we celebrate". Do you really not understand that?
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  9.  Kay tie F  Of course we want to get rid of gangbanger signs. What does that have to do with anything?
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  10.  @devo2  You aren't listening.
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  11. There are no NATO targets in Ukraine.
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  12.  @devo2  Why can't we do both?
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  13.  @JeanetteFaith  It is the Southern Republicans who want to erase black history by banning the discussion of slavery in schools.
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  14. Because they didn't.
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  15.  Kay tie F  What are you talking about? I study history all the time. I always champion its importance.
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  16.  @tixximmi1  Open military rebellion against the United States would fit ANY definition of treason.
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