Not only is this a waste of money and time, but it is absolutely acting politically in regards to naming Navy vessels.
It is, in fact, naked politics and made even more political by claiming its not. It is also very much the politics of “us versus them,” wherein the Trump administration seeks to exclude rather than include.
This all fits into the re-renaming of military bases. All of this is 1) an exercise of power (we are in charge now!), and 2) asserting that the names they want are the good, normal, and acceptable ones while names deployed by other political actors are problematic, inappropriate, or “virtue signalling” (because, heaven forbid, virtues should be signalled by doing something like taking a Confederate’s name off a military base or honoring a Gay right’s activist! I mean, what are you trying to signal?).
I wrote about this previously: It’s Always Been About the Bigotry.
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Author: Steven L. Taylor
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