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To: berserker
The next target needs to be all of these cities with Christian names. How can we have a separation of church and state and still have all of these cities with Christian names? We need to use numbers to replace these names. For example, San Francisco can be renamed City #54, San Antonio.. #47, and we can just forget about Sacramento.

Has anyone considered how humiliating and offending it must be for little Muslim or Jewish children to live in some city named for some Catholic saint?

Actually many other cities are named after some dead white guy, like Washington or Lincoln. This, no doubt, intimidates women and people of color. We should rename all of our cities using just numbers. This would avoid offending anyone and make it easier for GIS programmers.

10 posted on 04/30/2003 7:11:18 AM PDT by Blue Screen of Death
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To: Blue Screen of Death
The next target needs to be all of these cities with Christian names. How can we have a separation of church and state and still have all of these cities with Christian names? We need to use numbers to replace these names. For example, San Francisco can be renamed City #54, San Antonio.. #47, and we can just forget about Sacramento.

. . .

Actually many other cities are named after some dead white guy, like Washington or Lincoln. This, no doubt, intimidates women and people of color. We should rename all of our cities using just numbers. This would avoid offending anyone and make it easier for GIS programmers.

Don't be so sure about that. Personally, the numbers 8 and 15 offend me...


And don't get me started about 69.

43 posted on 04/30/2003 8:23:22 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: Blue Screen of Death
Uh wait a minute...numbers offend me. [LOL]
45 posted on 04/30/2003 10:02:06 AM PDT by Adder
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