Potsdam's Hiroshima Memorial

[Valmy]

We have a little crappy street in South Austin named Robert E Lee.  Fitting for a man whose only positive contribution was a brief presidency of a small Virginia University.

[jimmy olsen]

We have a little crappy street in South Austin named Robert E Lee.  Fitting for a man whose only positive contribution was a brief presidency of a small Virginia University.

What about his service in the Mexican American War?

Also, I think that the way in which he ended the war, forbidding the dispersal of the army to wage a guerrilla conflict and urging reconciliation was positive.

[Viking]

Have Potsdam marked as S.E.D. gebiet Potsdam on official U.S. maps.

[Neil]

Also, I think that the way in which he ended the war, forbidding the dispersal of the army to wage a guerrilla conflict and urging reconciliation was positive.

Was it really?

[jimmy olsen]

Also, I think that the way in which he ended the war, forbidding the dispersal of the army to wage a guerrilla conflict and urging reconciliation was positive.

Was it really?

Well, I suppose Lettow and his ilk may disagree, but I can't see why anyone else would.

[Neil]

Also, I think that the way in which he ended the war, forbidding the dispersal of the army to wage a guerrilla conflict and urging reconciliation was positive.

Was it really?

Well, I suppose Lettow and his ilk may disagree, but I can't see why anyone else would.

Because the annihilation of the Southern race would give America a much healthier perspective on relations with blacks.  Sure, most Northerners are virulently racist, but without the spectre of slavery hanging over them, they'd be more capable of becoming wise.

[CountDeMoney]

Sure, most Northerners are virulently racist,

It's not that they're racist, they just don't want to be around them.  Hell if you'll find me at a Red Lobster on a Friday night.  Shrcrimp platter. Mmm-hmm, hunnay. *snap*

[dps]

Had the US public discovered a war-ending weapon that Truman did not use, his presidency would have ended, is another argument posed

It did end.

Apparantly, someone thinks he's still President.

Though I have to say that a zombie Harry S Truman would probably be a better President than the past 4 we've had.

[jimmy olsen]

What would Truman have done that Bush 41 didn't?

[HisMajestyBOB]

Had the US public discovered a war-ending weapon that Truman did not use, his presidency would have ended, is another argument posed

It did end.

Apparantly, someone thinks he's still President.

Though I have to say that a zombie Harry S Truman would probably be a better President than the past 4 we've had.

A better president dead than any man alive.

[Martinus]

It's just one city government.  I'd like to see what the rest of Germany thinks of the idea.

Useless symbolic acts apparently are all the rage amongst leftists in the past few years. In my town they do that with street names.
There is a Carl-Peters-Straße the city government wants to rename because that name doesn't appear to be likable enough. (Carl Peters went to school here.) So they tried to get rid of it by asking the people living in the Carl-Peters-Straße. They didn't give an askari ass about it and voted for keeping the name.
Next bit was a new use for the abandoned Schlieffen barracks area. The city planners called the new quarter after the old barracks and got lots of protests from the Greens and the Left. How could they dare using the traditional name of Schlieffen who was directly responsible for the Herero massacre on a planning map!
Since there obviously is nothing else to talk about in local politics we now have the Hindenburgstraße on the agenda. Hindenburg, the most evil predecessor of Adolf Nazi. the man who created a monster, how could he have a street named after him! Some people talk about it and  write their letters to the local newspaper, bitching about the opposite opinion, but mainly its just a lot of smoke without a fire. hardly anyone seems to care.
Christian Science Monitor, eh. Glad someone takes interest in these useless debates.

We have the same in Poland, only going the opposite way, with the crazy rightists trying to rename any street that is named after someone with even remote ties to communism (and I am not just talking communist era apparatschiks here, but, say, Polish socialist writers of 1890s or something). Of course the people least willing to follow through with this crap are people actually living in a given street, since they couldn't care less about the name but don't want to go through all the hassle of changing your address on documents and stuff.

[Ed Anger]

Sure, most Northerners are virulently racist,

It's not that they're racist, they just don't want to be around them.  Hell if you'll find me at a Red Lobster on a Friday night.  Shrcrimp platter. Mmm-hmm, hunnay. *snap*

[grumbler]

Sure, most Northerners are virulently racist,

And the further north you go, the more virulent the racism.

[Sheilbh]

There are still wonderfully named streets in East Berlin.  I loved KarlMarxAllee (renamed from StalinStrasse) and RosaLuxemburgPlatz - though how a Soviet system could honour the founder of Luxemburgist communism is beyond me.

KarlMarxAllee:

[derspiess]

It's not that they're racist, they just don't want to be around them.  Hell if you'll find me at a Red Lobster on a Friday night.  Shrcrimp platter. Mmm-hmm, hunnay. *snap*