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[–] Tylerdurdon 165 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance

That's some Zoolander quality naming right there.

[–] disguy_ovahea 80 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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] 5 points 2 days ago

John Cena school would be great.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] NegativeInf 32 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days 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] 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] workerONE 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought that was Obi-Wan Kenobi

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days 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] 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Especially the Hitler one

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days 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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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

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

[–] AngryCommieKender 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 3 days 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.

[–] chiliedogg 3 points 2 days ago

Robert E Lee was the Supreme commanding General of the Confederacy, which seceeded from the United States out of fear that Lincoln and his new, progressive Republican party (times have obviously changed) would outlaw slavery.

The resulting Civil War was by far the deadliest conflict the US has ever been in in terms of US casualties. But the bonus is that since the war over slavery had started anyway, we went ahead and outlawed most slavery while we were at it.

Anyway, a lot of states, especially in the South kept discriminatory laws on the books following the war. As the Civil Rights movements of the 50s and 60s approached, a lot of Southern cities and states started building monuments and dedicating government buildings and parks to Confederate "heroes" and leaders.

They romanticized the Confederacy as a major part of Southern heritage (even though it lasted less than 5 years), and rewrote the history taught in schools to teach that the war wasn't about slavery, but about the federal government trampling on states rights.

And it worked. Millions of people are brainwashed into thinking that the rebel flag is a racist symbol, but a symbol of individualism and freedom. They tricked generations of Southerners into thinking they aren't racist.

[–] rhadamanth_nemes 11 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago (2 children)

Cause we wouldnt want this person to be happy?

[–] AngryCommieKender 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I can hear your eyes rolling from here :))

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days 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] 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 2 points 1 day ago

This is the world I want to live in

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

[–] troglodytis 35 points 3 days ago (3 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.

[–] xantoxis 61 points 3 days 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?

[–] troglodytis 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, the first 3 are fine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Schoolie McSchoolface is fine too.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] AngryCommieKender 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's The Unseen University, not The Invisible Elementary

[–] SpaceNoodle 11 points 3 days ago

Who is idea?

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