Cat@ponder.cat to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days ago‘It’s about control’: Why Trump renamed Denali to Mount McKinley.grist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up110arrow-down1external-link‘It’s about control’: Why Trump renamed Denali to Mount McKinley.grist.orgCat@ponder.cat to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-text
America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It’s had surprising climate implications.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoThis^ Elevating a white dude, who never went there and had no connections to the region, over a native place name with actual history and meaning. Inverted DEI. Bonus: It also offends my sensibility of naming things after people who were still alive at the time. McKinley wasn’t assassinated until 1901.
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoOr in other words, Trump is a little snowflake.
This^ Elevating a white dude, who never went there and had no connections to the region, over a native place name with actual history and meaning.
Inverted DEI.
Bonus: It also offends my sensibility of naming things after people who were still alive at the time. McKinley wasn’t assassinated until 1901.
Or in other words, Trump is a little snowflake.