Professors working to abolish harmful
street names
American Thinker,
by
Eric Utter
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
8/18/2024 11:00:55 PM
Several professors, headed by project leader Daniel Oto-Peralías at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain, have created a new app that they claim will help identify “offensive” and “harmful” street names and “repair past wrongs.”
The STNAMES LAB app was described by Oto-Peralías and fellow geography professors Derek Alderman of the University of Tennessee and Joshua Inwood of Penn State University as an “important education tool” in a recent article at The Conversation.
The intrepid professors wrote that the app:
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/18/2024 11:28:02 PM (No. 1780570)
Streets are named locally, not be global morons. Apparently, geography professors have become redundant.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/18/2024 11:38:37 PM (No. 1780576)
Just more Marxists clap-trap to remove any visage of history from our daily lives. First they came for the statues in the parks, then the names of our schools, now they're getting down to street signs. How soon before they demand a purge of our private books?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 8/18/2024 11:40:10 PM (No. 1780578)
Start with streets named Martin Luther King, Jr. whatever. Immediate stereotype. Nothing good ever happens on a street named after King. He would be appalled.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
padiva 8/18/2024 11:46:27 PM (No. 1780579)
Doe these professors think that they are Gd?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 8/18/2024 11:56:26 PM (No. 1780581)
"Savage" sounds mean? Did he really say that? I see nothing wrong with that name. Squaw is a legitimate word and an homage to native Americans. They should check out Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There's a street there name Hoo Shoo Too. Seriously. People live on that street. These Spanish professors need to get a hobby. This stuff is beyond ridiculous.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 8/18/2024 11:56:27 PM (No. 1780582)
Does this mean I need to get all new stationery and business cards?
I live on Black Ho Lane.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sw penn 8/19/2024 12:34:19 AM (No. 1780584)
The people who named those streets
thought they were building a wonderful new world
for their children and grandchildren.
These "renamers" also think they're building a wonderful new world.
Will they be seen as bigoted fools two generations hence?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/19/2024 1:09:26 AM (No. 1780590)
Perpetually offended hateful fools.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/19/2024 3:04:30 AM (No. 1780610)
Is this part of the effort to remove the names of people who benefitted from slavery?
If so, I wish to submit "New York, both the city and the state, as candidates for change.
They are named after the Duke of York, who at that time held the exclusive license for the English slave trade in the American colonies. It seems to me that he "benefitted from the slave trade" more than anyone else.
So.... Noo Yawk...... What is your New Name, and When are You going to Make the Change?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/19/2024 5:44:46 AM (No. 1780656)
These demonrat idiots need to get a life.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/19/2024 7:25:10 AM (No. 1780695)
In Knoxville, Tenn there is Gay Street. And in Atlanta, Georgia Beaver Ruin Road. Many roads in The South used to be named Dixie or for Confederate Heroes. Rewriting history is time consuming and pointless.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
downnout 8/19/2024 7:36:20 AM (No. 1780703)
If they want to be helpful, try teaching their students to read.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 8/19/2024 7:44:08 AM (No. 1780712)
Why don't they go after the Middle East or China instead of Western Europe? Oh, yeah, they'd get killed trying that. Those evil Europeans and Americans, though, these meddlers can attack safely - Westerners don't generally kill you when you try to ruin their country.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 8/19/2024 7:54:44 AM (No. 1780720)
Yep. It's terrible! Just yesterday on our way to Raleigh we drove by a street called "Lois Ln".
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/19/2024 8:09:20 AM (No. 1780733)
West Virginia will need to spend millions of dollars to replace all of the Robert Byrd signs. Streets, highways, bridges are all over the state with Joe Biden's friend's name on them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JackBurton 8/19/2024 8:33:01 AM (No. 1780748)
We should have stopped them at the statues. They'll always move on to another target and eventually they'll find something that really hurts.
BTW, I live in Michigan. Favorite road name on a bridge over M127: Begole Road.
Say it. Funny.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/19/2024 8:58:28 AM (No. 1780777)
Not far from my place in FL there's a road called "Harms Way"
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 8/19/2024 9:45:10 AM (No. 1780815)
I find strange street names a hoot. Makes one wonder how they came up with that name for that road or street. I especially like street names that say mountain, but the road is flat, and no mountains are in sight, or lake or bay view and the road isn't anywhere near a body of water.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DougTN 8/19/2024 10:00:17 AM (No. 1780825)
These moroons certainly have a lot of time on their hands. Glad to see that education is going to good use.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chagrined 8/19/2024 10:47:17 AM (No. 1780864)
They are the founders of "Lunatics R Us", right?
Here's some of their pap - "Some types of streets appear to me to be offensive, as well. “Thoroughfare” and “drive,” for example. The former categorization may well be offensive to those who aren’t particularly thorough, while the latter is patently offensive to those who happen to lack determination."
Okay, okay, Lunatics R Us was kinda strong. . .Idiots R Us would be more apropos. Maybe they ought to keep their idiocy in Spain.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Slartibartfast 8/19/2024 10:50:57 AM (No. 1780873)
#6, that's funny! Coffee spewing funny!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/19/2024 11:05:49 AM (No. 1780885)
NJ has a 'Shades Of Death Road' in Warren County.
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