[SmokingJoe]

The Duke is not going anywhere. Irrespective of if his name is removed from some airport or not.
If even Stalin couldn't make history disappear, how do you think a bunch of idiotic BLM looters will make The Duke disappear in the age of the Internet where nothing can be wiped out?
They remove John Wayne's name from some airport in California? No problem. Some airport in South Dakota or somewhere else will be named after John Wayne.

[dfwgator]

John Wayne’s not dead - he’s frozen. And as soon as we find the cure for cancer we’re gonna thaw out The Duke and he’s gonna be pretty pissed off. You know why? Have you ever taken a cold shower? Well multiply that by 15-million times, that’s how pissed off the Duke’s gonna be. I’m gonna get the Duke and John Cassavetes...
(Hey)
and Lee Marvin
(Hey)
and Sam Pekinpah
(Hey)
And a case of Whiskey and drive down to Texas...

-Dennis Leary

[Leaning Right]

As you noted, the Duke will not be erased from the Internet. But he will be taken off the PC “approved” list. And that does mean something. There will be pressure to not show his movies on TV. And Leftists will now feel free to slander him in articles and on the news.

Wayne is a minor player in this current upheaval. But he will take a hit. Leftist pressure is ugly and clumsy. But it works. Consider this. What school board today would name a new school after, say, Woodrow Wilson or Robert E. Lee?