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Originally Posted by jillio
But the organization that carries his name continues to promote discriminatory practices against the signing deaf today. He may be dead, but his philosophies live on.
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Well, it's the organization that's doing wrong... not AGB himself. A building name should not be "criticized" just because of what an organization did.
If you do believe that the building should be renamed simply because of a named organization, then I could do the same thing with NTID. The NTID building is LBJ. I could look up stuff on the actual person named LBJ and then set up an organization. I could start taking his ideals to the extreme even though they're old. I'll do it enough so that it starts pissing off the deaf students there. Then, they will want to rename LBJ to something else as well.
JFK didn't want to go to war. LBJ did. So, I could set up an organization where we do things that other people don't want to do. Don't like my organization? Too bad. I'm simply following LBJ's ideals to the extreme.
Now, does that sound reasonable? No.