tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35658622.post6094515050188140422..comments2023-11-18T08:09:26.056+13:00Comments on Abandoned Footnotes: Against Renaming VictoriaXavier Marquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10099356104979121153noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35658622.post-9773143069111791672018-07-24T13:53:33.902+12:002018-07-24T13:53:33.902+12:00What about Elihu Yale? He made his fortune from th...What about Elihu Yale? He made his fortune from the slave trade and then used it to found the university named after him.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02093836254934929683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35658622.post-83772729558312486942018-06-19T13:01:44.932+12:002018-06-19T13:01:44.932+12:00Excellent analysis. And you are not alone - I and ...Excellent analysis. And you are not alone - I and many other lost-in-the-sixties graduates think that the "proposed" "name simplification" by "retiring" the word 'Victoria' is a bad idea. In fact, I haven't spoken to anyone yet, who thinks it's a good idea.<br /><br />(I like "Stick with Vic", too!) Ross McComishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606277705843760362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35658622.post-43580476340559585682018-06-05T15:04:42.370+12:002018-06-05T15:04:42.370+12:00Thanks Grant - I like "stick with Vic"!
...Thanks Grant - I like "stick with Vic"!<br /><br />Re the Massey case - perhaps it might make more sense in that case (though I should think more carefully about it). I suppose the essence of the Cohen-conservative case is that it all depends on the associations of the name; if there's a widespread sense that "Massey" represents injustice, then a name change would be justified.Xavier Marquezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10099356104979121153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35658622.post-21556537555461373602018-06-05T14:43:16.533+12:002018-06-05T14:43:16.533+12:00I enjoyed this, thanks, Xavier. "Stick with V...I enjoyed this, thanks, Xavier. "Stick with Vic" could be a useful slogan, if you needed one. But what would you say to Massey U.? A staff member recently quoted comments made by William Massey that were racist and white-supremacist. He asked for a name-change. He might also have pointed out that Massey was a prominent patron of the British-Israel World Federation, and that his government violently suppressed strikes ("Massey's Cossacks"). In Massey's favour, he was a long-serving PM, leading the country through WW1. So, would it make more sense to resist the conservative bias in this case?Grant Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06038783261459535328noreply@blogger.com