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Re:NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer... by newacct583 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:17AM (#23640358)
> Evidently people care a lot about such stuff.

They don't, though. When was the last HN thread about a building named after someone undeserving? Or really any discussion about a routine honorific misapplied? Anything remotely similar?

Only now, in a thread about a building named after a black woman, do "people" start to "care a lot about such stuff".

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Re:NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer... by LudwigNagasena on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:42AM (#23650536)
> When was the last HN thread about a building named after someone undeserving? Or really any discussion about a routine honorific misapplied? Anything remotely similar?

Uhm? Some states even renamed Columbus Day. It is not simply "remotely similar", a national holiday is much more prominent than a building.

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