[lepton]

“The name is being removed because it is a symbol of hate, repression and racial inequality,”

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I can’t understand why they would have named any ship after him after he died. That said, the name isn’t a symbol of those things as much as it is a symbol of colossal idiocy.

“When the SCOTUS messes up a ruling so badly they kick off a Civil War.”

[CedarDave]

See my #30 for why the ship was named for Taney. It had nothing to do with his being on the Supreme Court or the Dred Scott decision and when named 85 years ago, Blacks were still considered unequal and subject to segregation in the south and discrimination in the north.