Posted on 07/23/2020 5:59:29 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
It pains the native New Yorker in me to say it, but if names have to keep up with the times, then, surely, the Times has to change its name. New York State, New York City, and the New York Times ought not to glorify James, Duke of York, notorious slave trader that he was. Do woke New York Times reporters really want to work at an institution named for such a man? Isn’t it a trigger just to walk into a building bearing that name? Apparently, New York City is finally going to remove the tiles in the Times Square subway station that may or may not represent a Confederate Flag. Surely it’s time the paper itself followed suit.
What might replace “New York”? One option for New York City would be to adopt the city’s nickname, “Gotham.” As Gotham is an old English term for the village of idiots (the English used to tell humorous stories about “the wise men of Gotham”) there’s a certain logic to that.
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Call it Toronto like they did in Canada.
How about the Daily Planet?
What backlash ought to take place against all the statue vandalism and name changes is that all news outlets and their allied publications should be cancelled for their Communist associations.
If association with slavery is evil, association with Communism is worse.
The “Empire” moniker came from the fact that New York city was loyal to the crown during the revolution.
But it’s more absorbent....
That is an EXCELLENT point.
In 1860, the United States had 4.5 million enslaved people.
In 1981, the USSR had 270 million enslaved people. That is OVER SIXTY times higher than the peak number of slaves in the US in 1860.
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