Hear, hear! Thank you sharing this.

there's a creek off ingalls creek in the teanaway mountains that was called nigger creek. it got changed to negro creek. dunno if that's any better.

at least we don't have counties around here named after slaveholding vice preznits. any more that is.

@2

We do still have states and national capitols named after slaveholding presidents, though. I'm not expecting that to change.

Right on!

I would not call someone a "pig" to their face but I don't think use of the word "pig" to describe the animal is sizest. It's a silly test.

@3: And the fact that he was a homosexual, didn't sore any points for William Rufus King in this regard.

I meant to refer to @2.

@9, That's what I always thought too, but it's not in this case. It was named intentionally to be insulting to the black guy who lived there.
I think it's still ok to refer to Davy Crockett's hat as coonskin cap since it is made from a raccoon? Changing that might be a little bit more of a stretch, but I'm on board with renaming this lake.

My grandmother lived at the foot of what was called "Cherry Hill" when she was a child, until a black family moved nearby. After that, everyone called it "N___ Hill."

Naming places like that is just something people used to do I guess, which is why no one should complain when people want to change it again.

@8 racist defends racism with more racism. shocking.

Can't we start with putting the right names back on Mt. Rainier and Lake Washington? And Puget Sound?

McKinley is pretty random, but Rainier and Puget take second and third place for rando fucking names. And then there's the totally arbitrary use of Washington.

At least naming a stray cat after the street you found it on has some kind of weird logic to it.

To Patriarch and all the other pro-fascist racists. Pramila is not only a champion of the people but is more American than you will ever be, She understands more about the principles that this country is supposed to be founded upon but seldom lives . What you are uncomfortably witnessing is the confrontation of the lie that your undeserved privilege This country is finally evolving into a more socially just society. In order for that to happen we must confront the truth that this country is still racist and was founded and built upon the blood, sweat, misery and oppression of countless enslaved people and immigrants. So the subject we are talking about is the USA not South East Asia. Why? because we are here and this country invented one of the most heinous forms of slavery and oppression the world has even known. So we will not be distracted by your childish antics to distract us. Our eyes are on the prize.Times are changing and we are winning the future. The notion of separate races is a human construct and fiction. There is only one race, the human race!

@16
Typical Leftist threats.

@20: "Hitler is revered as an incarnation of Kali in some places"
I looked it up, and those places you talk about are really just fringe neo-Nazi communities in the West.

@21: wot the fok did ye just say 2 me m8? i dropped out of newcastle primary skool im the sickest bloke ull ever meet & ive nicked 300 candy bars from tha corner store. im trained in street fitin’ & im the strongest foker in tha entire newcastle gym. yer nothin to me but a cheeky lil dickhead w/ a hot mum & fake bling. ill waste u and smash a fokin bottle oer yer head bruv, i swer 2 christ. ya think u can fokin run ya gabber at me whilst sittin on yer arse behind a lil screen? think again wanka. im callin me homeboys rite now preparin for a proper rumble. tha rumble thatll make ur nan sore jus hearin about it. yer a waste bruv. my homeboys be all over tha place & ill beat ya to a proper fokin pulp with me fists wanka. if i aint satisfied w/ that ill borrow me m8s cricket paddle & see if that gets u the fok out o’ newcastle ya daft kunt. if ye had seen this bloody fokin mess commin ye might a’ kept ya gabber from runnin. but it seems yer a stewpid lil twat, innit? ima shite fury & ull drown in it m8. ur in proper mess ya knobhead.

@21: What in Davy Jones’ locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? I’ll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and I’ve led numerous raids on fishing villages, and raped over 300 wenches. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source o’ swag. I’ll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network o’ pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind o’ monsoon that’ll wipe ye off the map. You’re sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in o’er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top o’ the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and I’ll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off o’ the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldn’t, ye didn’t, and now ye’ll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. I’ll shit fury all over ye and ye’ll drown in the depths o’ it. You’re fish food now.

I am so in love right now.

So, Navy SEAL copypasta gets deleted, but Navy SEAL copypasta in Britbong or Pirish is okay. Huh.
Does anyone running the show know what a copypasta is?

What's this you've said to me, my good friend? Ill have you know I graduated top of my class in conflict resolution, and Ive been involved in numerous friendly discussions, and I have over 300 confirmed friends. I am trained in polite discussions and I'm the top mediator in the entire neighborhood. You are worth more to me than just another target. I hope we will come to have a friendship never before seen on this Earth. Don't you think you might be hurting someone's feelings saying that over the internet? Think about it, my friend. As we speak I am contacting my good friends across the USA and your P.O. box is being traced right now so you better prepare for the greeting cards, friend. The greeting cards that help you with your hate. You should look forward to it, friend. I can be anywhere, anytime for you, and I can calm you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my chess set. Not only am I extensively trained in conflict resolution, but I have access to the entire group of my friends and I will use them to their full extent to start our new friendship. If only you could have known what kindness and love your little comment was about to bring you, maybe you would have reached out sooner. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now we get to start a new friendship, you unique person. I will give you gifts and you might have a hard time keeping up. You're finally living, friend.

@25, they once deleted a comment where I reminded Seattleblues that he has a black wife. Nothing controversial. Just a statement of fact, and the context didn't make it inflammatory or anything. It was AS IF they thought I was insulting him by saying he had a black wife, which says more about whoever did it, really. Very strange and arbitrary what gets deleted sometimes.