Petition to Rename Columbus, OH to Flavortown
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I'd get behind this, but I also don't want that city to have the privilege having such an awesome city name. They don't deserve it
Shit, you're right. This could backfire...
Notice they aren't mentioning what Flavor Flavortown is.
ColuXbus
(someone else suggested this on a thread yesterday - I am blatantly stealing)
Ann Arbor's Daddy
No need to vote... just make the change!
They should rename it something that ties together some of the more notable aspects of the city. I think Arschloch would be fitting.
Kewlerpeauper.
Will Guy Fieri live there?
Not even Flavor Flav would live there.
Columbus should be renamed "Cocktown"
Because of the roosters?
Why not "Cooler Poop?"
Definitely include the question mark in the name.
The Kuelerpüperburg
I am very much in favor of Cooler Poop?, OH being a thing.
Some background for those not familiar:
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/ohio-new-fast-food-items-first-test-market-release
Would you really want to be known as the fast food capital of the U.S.?
This is disrespectful to Guy Fieri. Flavortown is a wonderful place and Ill have nothing to do with calling a toilet bowl something so tasty.
Couldn't agree more. How dare they.
It should be Urban City. Literally.
Someone said on a previous thread (so I can’t take credit for it), but I like Colxmbus better
So close...it would be Coluxbus
hit the goal post...
I will also post a hockey picture.
Vernie's finest work. What an era of hockey and sports in general.
I think it was sometime in the 70's when this guy was my favorite hockey player:
He could also have played a mean tambourine. Or sang lead for Jefferson Starship.
michele bergeron? i can recognize the olympia as the arena. that was the era of the 'dead wings', at least it was as you got into the late '70's.
That is Henry Boucha wearing the red headband for the Red Wings. Played in the 70's.
I will always upvote a pic of Roy after he's taken a beating.
Really?! I thought the "x" could only replace vowels, thereby totally disrupting the flow of the word.
But, I'm not up on these things.
No. The X replaces the M. Look up some Ohio state related twitter accounts. I’m sure you’ll find a bunch of red Xs where in place of Ms
Peetown Written in Yellow on a field of White.
Upon hearing the public outcry to rename Columbus, officials at OSU recommended they rename it:
”The” Columbus.
I nominate "Excrementopolis" for the new name.
With the new name, they'll also need a new official seal or "coat of arms" to be proudly displayed on all official City of Excrementopolis documents, and this one is perfect, seat down and lid off:
https://images.app.goo.gl/juueV8L7PrYuKgMi9
Curious...
Why so much Christopher Columbus outrage but not much towards Jefferson, Washington, or other founding fathers that owned slaves? All explorers/colonialists engaged in wiping out native populations through violence and disease, as well as propagating slavery - but Columbus was over 500 years ago while the founding fathers were 250 years ago. It would seem the more immediate/relevant target would be those of more recent history.
One could argue that Columbus was more a product of his time and the founding fathers were more cynically and self-servingly hypocritical in simultaneously writing about inalienable rights and owning slaves.
It’s all dumb. But more than that exhausting
I don't think it's dumb to rethink how we can more honestly learn about and address the history of our country - good and bad. It can, however, be exhausting, especially with how divisive it can be.
That's just it, it isn't honest. In any way.
First, these men are being judged not only with 20/20 hindsight, and by more extreme standards than those to which we would hold ourselves (standards of near omniscience).
Second, there's not a whiff of respect for the good that they did. Not an ounce. And that's hypocritical. If one believes themselves worthy to stand judge on history, it's not enough to weigh in only on the bad, one must weigh the whole person.
Last, there's no discussion, it's just judgement and execution, fuck rationalism.
I want us to be honest about history, I have not one moments interest in padding or softening history, but it is disingenuous to look around at the positives these figures brought to the world and deny it's existence.
What's happening here is a lie built upon modern narcissism, and if they want to look harshly upon the past, they should consider the way future historians will look upon their childish dishonesty. We're supposed to be getting MORE mature as a species, not less.
My point was simply that the founding fathers are 250 years closer to our modern day, and wrote the very documents upon which our nation was founded and governed.
I agree it's very harsh to judge past historical figures based on today's standards...hell, I look at pictures of the clothes I was wearing 15 years ago and cringe.
I'm just curious as to why someone further removed from our current day has become such a target.
IMO
Individuals involved in institutionalizing Jim Crow - Fuck em, that's pretty recent and essentially slavery 2.0
The confederacy and people hanging on to the flag - Fuck em - they lost, it was treason, deal with it. Germany isn't flying swastika flags, you don't get to fly your hate symbol and call it heritage.
Founding fathers - A bit more complicated - did some great shit, did some fucked up shit, was 250 years ago.
Columbus - This was 500 + years ago. People were cutting each others heads off in Europe and plagues were wiping out 30% of the population. Seems he was a man of a brutal era acting brutally.
Hence, my curiosity.
You're looking for rationality in what is a purely emotional movement. This statue makes me feel bad, so I will destroy it.
If they want to get back at Columbus they can do so by killing themselves. They will be martyrs rather than social justice virtue signalers.
The people that erect monuments and/or name geographical locations after people are the very definition of virtue signalers. However, in this case, the person that is being memorialized by the name is not virtuous. Ironic.
don't listen to this guy. he loves sharks. that can't be good.
That picture is a perfect illustration of my point. That guy was a head football coach in the Mountain West and the SEC and a receivers coach at Michigan in 2018. But he will forever be known as a shark rapist. If McElwain is to be forever saddled with this shameful incident, shouldn't our memorializations of Columbus be tempered with the knowledge that the dude directed the brutal enslavement and murder of an entire culture?
Uh. That's not even McElwain in the picture. Ironic indeed, that you're using that to try to argue in favor of defining people by nothing except what they did wrong. We should take down Columbus statues because it's OK to saddle a guy with a "shameful incident" he didn't even do?
I was just joking about McElwain. I know it's not him (but has it been definitely proven?). That picture and the absurd controversy that it sparked was the original inspiration for the name I use on this profile, after all. When I first created my profile, it was sharkfucker. But I decided it would be best to tone down the vulgarity.
I think it is totally appropriate to define people by their worst deeds if their worst deeds include killing and enslaving people.
"I think it is totally appropriate to define people by their worst deeds if their worst deeds include killing and enslaving people."
So if it's ok to define people by one factor based on your decision of what's right and wrong ...
God if I need to expound on that, give back your degree. Even the fact that I might need to expound on that ...
NO. JUST FUCKING NO. Jeebus what the hell is wrong with you!??!
This, right here, this is from whence evil comes. Stop believing evil is ok.
Orrrr "this statue probably makes other people of this country feel bad"...so let's take it the fuck down and make sure it's in the history books.
I liked a sentiment I read that said this: put these statues and shit in museums. Remember the history. Don't make them into monuments that celebrate them.