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Originally Posted by VamPyroX
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.
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The difference being, LBJ did not practice soft eugenics. LBJ did not promote oralism only. LBJ did not discriminate against the signing deaf. AG Bell did, and AGBad does. So to name a building after him on a college campus that has a name such as national Technical Institute for the Deaf is insulting.
Now, if you were to name a building after LBJ on a Quaker campus, as Quakers are known first and foremost for their religious stance on pacifism, that, too would be insulting. The man's philosphy is diametrically opposed to their belief system.
To name a building after the Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan might also be acceptable for some. I doubt that it would be tolerated on, for example, the campus of Fisk University, a tradtitionally Black campus.
See the difference?