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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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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.
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That can not be even close to true. Also, I don't believe resistance to doing something is a good indicator of if that something should be done. If a whole bunch of weirdos who worship Langevin and his horrible ideas came forward to protest you would have been fine with keeping it the same?
To the main point, I don't really care about the bridge. I had to just look up which one it was. This whole time I thought it was the bottom half of the center street bridge. I think the name should stay as it is part of our history and can drive the conversation about our past. Its great they are putting a plaque up to give a blurb about the residential system but I don't think many people will see that, no one will learn anything from it. By removing the name everyone can just go back to forgetting and not talking about that part of our history at all..... great
