‘It’s about control’: Why Trump renamed Denali to Mount McKinley
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America has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

America has always stripped the land of its original Indigenous names. It’s had surprising climate implications.

  • eran_morad@lemmy.world
    532·
    2 months ago

    Give me a fucking break. It’s about shitting on native (i.e., non-white) people.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      28·
      2 months ago

      This^ Elevating a white dude, who never went there and had no connections to the region, over a native place name with actual history and meaning.

      Inverted DEI.

      Bonus: It also offends my sensibility of naming things after people who were still alive at the time. McKinley wasn’t assassinated until 1901.

    • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      No, it’s about restoring the history of White America to White supremacist Americans. They aren’t thinking of indigenous people at all.