Rename John Wayne Airport?

lionking said:
Meh. How many historical things are going to be re-named if everyone was judged by the prevailing standards of today? Most people before say the 1950s had misogynistic views of some sort, earlier, racism was an accepted part of life. Homophobia was rampant.

Don’t change the airport name.
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My working theory: the Constitution is the ultimate goal. Damn slave owners wrote it - let's tear down statues, rename streets, rewrite the constitution that those racist jerks wrote. USSA.
 
They could just name it after another actor who appeared in Westerns, Crash Corrigan. Yes, Crash Corrigan Airport sounds fine.
 
WAYNE: I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that's what you're asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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I wonder what he would say about Trump's wall if he were alive today.
 
The purpose of airports is for people to leave them as quickly as possible. Accordingly, they are all horrible, and they should be named after horrible people.

"We're now arriving at That Guy in the Flex-Seal Commercials International Airport. Our gate agents will be standing by to assist you in getting the **** out of there, which you'll definitely want to do."
 
Ehh...it's not like there was anything new about him in this particular interview - in fact I thought he'd said all this same garbage in other interviews (in addition to having to be held back from beating Sacheen Littlefeather at the Oscars). And unlike the Confederate statues, I didn't get the impression that this was a deliberate middle finger towards any group.

I don't watch his stuff, but I'm not bothered. Ask some native American groups.
 
Myriad said:
The purpose of airports is for people to leave them as quickly as possible. Accordingly, they are all horrible, and they should be named after horrible people.

"We're now arriving at That Guy in the Flex-Seal Commercials International Airport. Our gate agents will be standing by to assist you in getting the **** out of there, which you'll definitely want to do."
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- Jared from Subway Airport
- The Guy Who Invented Banner Ads Airport
 
Obtain a list of American combat casualties from Afghanistan (2,372) and Iraq (4,541 through 2018); find a dead servicemember who is from the local region, do an internet search to make sure they haven't left anything repugnant on the record, and rename the thing after them.

Even if a full 50% of these casualties turn out to be racist/sexist/white-supermacist scumbags you'd still have a pool of some 3,500 names, more than enough to rename any stadium/airport/highway/park/buildings currently misnamed and have a comfortable buffer list of names left over should any other historical figures be found or deemed scumbags-in-retrospect in the future.

And no, there's nothing wrong with renaming a named building if we discover or decide the person it is currently named after isn't worthy of the honor. Present users of facilities should have a choice of who they want to honor and who they do not deem worthy. They shouldn't have to just live with dead peoples' decisions on these matters for all eternity.
 
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Or just name airports geographically, since that's a) how everyone refers to them anyway and b) is the most relevant piece of information about an airport anyway. Does anybody actually say "We're flying into the Stephan K Tripsolophodont Airport"? Or do they say "We're flying into the Iowaville airport"? The only airports that need more than a city name are those in a city with multiple airports.
 
All Races Airport
Racial Equality Airport
Race-blind Airport
No Supremacy Airport
Airport Airport

Those are some ideas for a new name.
 
I think it's time we honored our fictional characters. "He-Man/She-Ra International Airport" has a nice ring to it!
 
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