Humans aren't reasonable, but we are capable of using academically inconsistent reason to justify both action and inaction in obviously similar situations.
I mean yeah, Ghandi was kinda horrible. Find the Ghandi bridge and rename it if you want, but to most people it doesn't have anything to do with this particular issue.
Rename Washington, take McDonald off the bill, whatever. Not all issues are equally relevant or important to enough people to make a difference. The bridge was, and that's fine.
It changed because enough people cared to outweigh those who didn't. Go ahead and try to rename Washington D.C, see if the resistance to that is as limp as the resistance to renaming a bridge that was named after someone most people don't care about anyway.
I get what you're saying Corsi, and I know it's upsetting, but to most people it just doesn't really matter to be that consistent.
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