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[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance

That's some Zoolander quality naming right there.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Agreed. I’d also totally vote for The Derek Zoolander School for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'll vote for it if they make it at least 3 times bigger. How are children expected to learn how to read and do other stuff good too if they can't even fit inside the building?

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Literally everyone of these is better than Robert E. Lee Elementary

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Isn't he the guy who liked to fuck his horse?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yep, the one who said he sided with the confederacy because "he couldn't bring himself to fight against family" despite the fact a bunch of his family was fighting against the confederates

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wasn't he the one famously quoted saying "never fight uphill, me boys"?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought that was Obi-Wan Kenobi

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you realize Obi-Wan Kenobi was a civil war general

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Technically he was! Just the wrong Republic?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know that Hitler was not only a famous painter, surely? I know it's not a competition, but I've heard the guy has done some fairly bad things

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Also I would argue that he was famously not a famous painter

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why did no one nominate Robert Eleementary School to begin with? I'm certain that Robert E. Lee would be happy with that name.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Because Robert Lee was a Confederate general in the US civil war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Robert E. Lee, and several of his commanding generals, specifically said that no one should ever commemorate their names or visages. That means no statues, or places named for them. They recognized that they were traitors.

Woodrow Wilson didn't give a fuck about dead men's wishes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I'm not american so dont really know much about its significance.

Still would agree that it was a missed opportunity to not call it Eleementary way back when it was named.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Confederacy seceded to protect their right to own slaves, and soldiers on the side of the Confederacy killed and died to protect their right to own slaves.

Not the kind of people we should be honoring by building statues and naming schools for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

So, changing it to Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance would be about the same

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cause we wouldnt want this person to be happy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He would have been happier to have nothing named for him and no statues erected. Apparently Woodrow "Author of Southern Revisionism" Wilson didn't give even half a fuck about the dead man's wishes. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and a bunch of the other generals all specifically said that no monuments or commemorations should be erected to honor them, as they recognized they were traitors.

Wilson is the one that refounded the KKK, helped fund the filming of Birth of a Nation, showed said travesty of a movie at The White House, used his Yale credentials to write Southern Revisionism, used his power as president to erect said statues and change the names of places and monuments, and segregated The Federal Government. That's just looking at his domestic policies. Wilsonian Doctrine gave us the Forever Wars that have ensued since, and that could easily be argued to be the least damaging thing that asshole did.

Wilson is only second to Jackson for worst president ever, and that's only because Jackson paid off the national debt, and caused the worst depression in US history. Deepest by economic percentage, though not dollar amount, and longest by over a decade. They both committed their own flavors of genocide against the Native Americans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

1000002578

Seriously though this guy was on the wrong side of history

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When I was a kid, our little town was finally opening a second high school. They had us current high schoolers nominate and vote on the new high school's mascot.

We were the Broncos, our drill team was the Fillies.

The admins vetoed the mascot that won a landslide victory: Bulldogs.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So they overturned the students' vote and probably pissed off every high school student, undermined everyone's trust, so they could veto... Bulldogs? What was so bad about Bulldogs?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yep, we all felt the same. Though, the motivation for the landslide victory was Broncos/Fillies, Bulldogs/Bitches

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Instead of a typical bulldog, they should've tried a bull-dog

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bulldog_mascots

It's also been featured in movies and TV Shows. Basically, it's the most generic mascot you could possibly have.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] southsamurai 33 points 1 month ago

I mean, the Bruce Lee one would at least make recycling the signs easier. Enough letters in common are a huge savings.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I'd choose Schoolie McSchoolface, but one with german artist and friendship is rather hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I can hear your eyes rolling from here :))

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"Now, Mr Pierce, it says here in your resume that you graduated high school. Would you mind saying which school you graduated from?"

"S-school... whimper... Schoolie McSchoolface"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is the world I want to live in

The world is absurd, and I'm tired of pretending it's not

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, the first 3 are fine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Schoolie McSchoolface is fine too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't #3 the school from the Discworld books?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's The Unseen University, not The Invisible Elementary

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Who is idea?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

John Cena school would be great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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