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Rename John Wayne Airport?

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Some people are calling for the John Wayne Airport to be renamed.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/...yboy-interview-ethan-wayne-smerconish-vpx.cnn

This is a very softball interview. Ethan Wayne says that portions of the 50 year old interview were taken out of context. So of course the next question put to Mr. Wayne should have been, "What was the context?".

This is just one of the quotes from the interview that people take exception to.
I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.
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Here is the rest of the interview. I've no idea what parts of the interview didn't make it to print.
https://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Wild_Wild_Cold_War/files/2011/11/John_Wayne_Playboy_Int2.pdf

PLAYBOY: That's hardly the point, but let's change the subject. For years American Indians have played an important—if subordinate—role in your Westerns. Do you feel any empathy with them?
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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Yeah. Rename the airport.
 
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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.
 
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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Exactly every white person in the 1960's thought the blacks were a lesser race.
 
Change it to the John Wayne Gacy Airport. They could modify the existing signage instead of replacing it all, and as far as I know, that guy never said anything bad about any minorities.
 
How many men (of any creed or ethnicity) through history had expressed today's prevailing (in first world nations) views WRT the capabilities and rights of women?
If outdated notions of the equality of all "men" are to be used to disqualify recognition that these figures were deemed worthy of note, a more sensible approach might be to deny recognition of anyone.

Although, personally, I don't think much of John Wayne. It seems a silly waste of effort to bother with such things as deciding wether or not this airport needs a new name.
 
Myriad said:
Change it to the John Wayne Gacy Airport. They could modify the existing signage instead of replacing it all, and as far as I know, that guy never said anything bad about any minorities.
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I was thinking D. Wayne Johnson Airport. Everybody loves D. Wayne.
 
Distracted1 said:
...Although, personally, I don't think much of John Wayne. It seems a silly waste of effort to bother with such things as deciding wether or not this airport needs a new name.
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Nonsense! It's an opportunity to stick it to Orange County which is always fun.
 
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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Um, they already DID change the airport name. The question is, should it be changed back to the original?

And if everyone from back then was a genocide-supporting racist, then take all their names off everything
 
Perhaps we should start a list: Famous, powerful people born before 1910* who haven't been on record saying or doing anything 'problematic' who can be safely commemorated.

I'm pretty sure that none of the founding fathers, nor Churchill, nor Gandhi qualify. Probably one of the ancient greeks. None of the Romans (quick - rename Cincinnati!). In fact, it's probably going to be quite a short list.





* Wayne was born 1907, so I picked a round number near the turn of the century.
 
To be really accurate, they should change it to "We're Worse than Long Beach but Way Better than LAX" airport. Is that too long?
 
Myles said:
They gonna dismantle the Lincoln Memorial too?
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If they can, yes. That's probably still a few steps away, but there's really no limiting principle on this current drive to purge the past.
 
Are we really going to allow one comment in one interview to completely overshadow the fact he was a mediocre actor?
 
Name it the Airport Airport, after Chester I. Airport, who famously invented the umbilical clamp.
 
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