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Left Wants to Rename Austin Over Slavery (Libtards have a new issue alert)
Frontpage ^ | July 29, 2018 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 07/29/2018 12:11:02 AM PDT by Zakeet

Now the Anti-History movement of the left has a new target. A target as big as a city.

A new report from Austin, Texas’s Equity Office about existing Confederate monuments suggested changing the city's name.

The report identified several neighborhoods and 10 streets named in honor of the Confederacy or William Barton, a slave owner dubbed the "Daniel Boone of Texas," that could be changed, The Austin American-Statesman reported Friday.

Austin’s namesake, Stephen F. Austin - also referred to as the "father of Texas" - opposed efforts by Mexico to abolish slavery in the Tejas province, saying freed slaves would become "vagabonds, a nuisance and a menace," the newspaper noted.

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The only question is whom to rename Austin after? It has to be a historical figure with impeccable politically correct bona fides. A man whose commitment to leftist politics could never be challenged.

Marxville? New Mao City? Obamastan?

Columbus, Ohio, I imagine will be next. Also what was the Duke of York's position on slavery? What was Amerigo Vespucci's position on gay marriage?

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; bluezones; dixie; liberalism; purge; rename; slavery
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To: Huaynero

Thank goodness for songs like that which gained great fame and popularity. Even the left would be hard-pressed to send it down the memory hole. More likely, they’d just try to co-opt it in some way, just as they’ve tried to do with Christianity, and, with success, country music itself. They try to co-opt the outlaws (and that dimwit Nelson, the tax dodger, gives them an opening-you’d think they’d be pizzed that he didn’t like paying his “fair share”-but I don’t think they could ever find a way to co-opt Waylon, and certainly not Hank Jr).


21 posted on 07/29/2018 4:53:47 AM PDT by mrsmel (I wonÂ’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Zakeet
There are two principles at work here:

1) The issue is never the issue, the issue is always The Revolution.

2) The Revolution starts in the Year Zero.

22 posted on 07/29/2018 5:17:16 AM PDT by Salman (It's not just lack of "civility". The Democratic Party is now a terrorist organization.)
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To: Zakeet

The way to retaliate is to call for the renaming of any place that is named after anyone who supported the murderous ideology of Marx.


23 posted on 07/29/2018 5:20:24 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Vendome

Castro City Limits.


24 posted on 07/29/2018 6:21:28 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Trying to reason with a liberal is like trying to talk sense to a hammer.

Or playing chess with a pigeon.

25 posted on 07/29/2018 6:23:25 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Zakeet

Chavez, TX ... a dream come true for the moonbats.


26 posted on 07/29/2018 6:51:40 AM PDT by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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To: Zakeet
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

There was a time when we still cared about truth.

27 posted on 07/29/2018 6:55:00 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: mabarker1
the fact that Texas puts up with these enema nozzles at all does not bode well...
28 posted on 07/29/2018 7:04:44 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Vendome

San Francisco is named for Saint Francis. Start there.


29 posted on 07/29/2018 7:08:31 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Zakeet

A better idea would be for all the Eyore loving tree hugging environutter uber sanctuary city libs who insist on keepin’ Austin weird just move their backsides and their hate to Californica. Or should I say BACK to Californica where they came.


30 posted on 07/29/2018 7:13:29 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I vote for naming it a number as a name would upset the gays.


31 posted on 07/29/2018 7:14:38 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: fella

Africa and it’s countries need a name change since they are the ones who gathered up their neighbors and sold them.


32 posted on 07/29/2018 7:17:53 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: MuttTheHoople

The Castro brothers want to save that for San Antonio.


33 posted on 07/29/2018 7:19:08 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Zakeet

Easy to do. Breckinridge Colorado changed it’s name to BreckEnridge due to the Civil War.

Breckinridge captured the vote in the South in 1860. He had been VP under Franklin Pierce, later became a Confederate officer.


34 posted on 07/29/2018 7:43:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Zakeet

Have they renamed the Democrat party yet? The founders of the party were all slave owners.


35 posted on 07/29/2018 7:53:11 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

LOL on Oprahoma.


36 posted on 07/29/2018 8:05:35 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Zakeet

How about....

-Snowflake
-SJW
-Obamaville
-Sanctuary City
-PC-ville
-Multiculturalism Town


37 posted on 07/29/2018 8:07:35 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Zakeet

“A new report from Austin, Texas’s Equity Office...”

It’s what you get when you institutionalize delusion.


38 posted on 07/29/2018 8:27:31 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Zakeet
Let's go all-in and rename Washington, both the city and state.

-PJ

39 posted on 07/29/2018 8:29:21 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Zakeet
Austin's chief equity officer...


40 posted on 07/29/2018 8:33:50 AM PDT by aquila48
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