• reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Naming things after people frequently backfires. The person later turns out to be politically divisive, or a nazi, or a rapist, or a pedophile, or some other awful thing.

    I’m so tired of seeing “XYZ memorial highway” signs everywhere. And schools should just stick to naming themselves after the region (north/south/east/west), or going by PS numbers. It’s all just asking for trouble and a waste of taxpayer money.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      See the perfect example: Star Trek Discovery namedropping Musk in-between the Wright brothers and Zephram Cochrane (in-universe inventor of the warp drive), and even having a high school named after him.

      This, mind you, happened right before his “pedo guy” comments - the episode aired in early October 2017, whereas Musk made the comment on 15 July 2018. So within a year Musk managed to kill off the respect of a large chunk of nerds just by letting his inner Nazi appear for a moment.

      • RustyShackleford@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        In my mind, I rewrote the episode’s script. Essentially, Elon laid himself down feet first in front of a steam roller, after giving away everything he owned to fund Universal Healthcare.

        So, they named a local elementary school after him, as it was literally the very least they could do after he was squeezed out like a tube of toothpaste.

  • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Fun fact, the hollywood walk of fame is a bought honor, you pay for it, you get it. It’s not given out based on some achievement criteria

    • MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yes and no.

      You need to have +5 years of history in entertaiment business and/or in community work and somebody else needs to nominate you. Then if the commitee acepts you and you pay the sponsor fee you get the star.

      But yeah. If you have lots of money and friends in right places you can pretty much buy it, but its not like any bluecollar worker can just take a loan and buy one for themself without any merit.

      Its not really that different than how people get wings in hospitals or libraries named after them. Except Hollywood star does not benefit normal people in any way.