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Army restores the names of 7 bases that lost their Confederate-linked names under Biden (www.nbcwashington.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Those bases are Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Pickett and Fort Robert E. Lee in Virginia, Fort Gordon in Georgia, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Polk in Louisiana and Fort Rucker in Alabama.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

For those who don't know the background, a few years ago the US passed a law to remove the names of anyone who fought for the Confederacy from any US Military bases. (Why they bothered naming bases after losers in the first place is a different question). So all these bases got renamed.

A few months ago, Trump found a loophole: change these names back, but instead of honoring the Confederates, find someone with the same last name to name the base after. They did this with Ft. Bragg, and now they are doing it with a bunch of others.

If I were the family of one of the people that Trump is "honoring", I would be pissed off. Because that "honoree" is really being used as a pawn in a culture war that elevates racists with a wink and a nod. Yeah, there might be a plaque somewhere with my relative's picture on it, but everyone would know that the picture is really there because that person shared the same last name as a general who fought to keep humans enslaved, and lost. And everyone would know that person is the one the base is really named after.

We shouldn't erase our history, but we shouldn't elevate losers, either.

[+] [email protected] -17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Very American of you to conclude "you shouldn't elevate loosers". Slavery and racism are the problem. You totally can and should elevate some loosers, a lot of loosers, actually. Not these slavist, racist, loosers; they can stay underground in hell.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Very online if you to conclude "they weren't speaking in context and meant anyone who has ever lost shouldn't be elevated"

Come on.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, I read your whole comment, it's very informative. You still wrote about not elevating loosers in the end. Seems like a cultural thing to me, since I'm not American.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you read the comment, you'd know that the losers he's referring to are Confederate generals. Don't elevate the leaders of the racist civil war. It wasn't a blanket statement applying to anyone who ever lost.

Your response reminds me of this:

And those aren't my words you're taking out of context.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As I said before, I read the comment twice. Yes, they talk about slavist, racist, confederate generals at first, then, only about loosers. You can, of course, read the comment as if they are still talking about the three things bundled together, but another read is reasonably possible. I wouldn't reply in this way if it wasn't, but this is getting too distracting from the main point of the post. I'm sorry if I came across as too judicious. I extend these apologies to OP.

[–] Jax 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there might be a plaque somewhere with my relative's picture on it, but everyone would know that the picture is really there because that person shared the same last name as a general who fought to keep humans enslaved, and lost. And everyone would know that person is the one the base is really named after.

We shouldn't erase our history, but we shouldn't elevate losers, either.

Holy fucking cherrypicking, Batman

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Maybe they're a fucking loser and they feel offended.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The "losers" that should be elevated only got the short end of the stick when they were alive, but turned out to be on the right side of history all along. These Confederates are not among them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sorry, wrong user.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They restored the names, but iirc they named them after random other ppl with the same names. Like fort Hood in TX - now named after Robert B Hood, a WWI colonel. So, he couldn't even do that right and all the chuds in favor of this didn't even really get what they want

https://www.tpr.org/military-veterans-issues/2025-06-10/trump-uses-loophole-to-bring-back-the-name-fort-hood-other-u-s-army-bases-originally-named-after-confederate-figures

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump's faithful don't fuss over minor details.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Also are ignorant of minor (and major) details

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Imagine being ok with serving on a base named after people who tried to end the country you swore to defend. Oh wait, you don’t have to imagine it. Like 40% of our troops are super into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not just tried to end the country they swore to defend, but that they also swore to defend, then violated that oath and proceeded to kill more members of their army than other opponent in history.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Truly, we care about the dumbest shit. Who cares what a military base is called? Even more, who cares if it's named after some dudes who lost a war 160 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Uh, the people who's ancestors those 'dudes' fought to keep enslaved?

The people who's ancestors died, fighting those traitors?

Idk, it's not like the war was more than a handful of generations ago.

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

The name of some place has literally zero real world impact on your life. I could not care less how my ancestors died.

The fact that they're renaming it back to what it was already called by just picking some other person with the same name really shows how little meaning any of it has.

Why do you choose to be offended over something of so little consequence?

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

Username checks out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Friend, what? Is that supposed to be an insult?